Bill Text: OR SJM6 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Urging Congress to fund mobile health care buses for women veterans.
Spectrum: Unknown
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-10 - Filed With Secretary of State. [SJM6 Detail]
Download: Oregon-2011-SJM6-Enrolled.html
76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session Enrolled Senate Joint Memorial 6 Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on Veterans' Affairs) To the President of the United States and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled: We, your memorialists, the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent as follows: Whereas the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration is charged with providing health care, including mental health care, to all eligible veterans, including women veterans; and Whereas 25,000 women veterans from all eras of service reside in Oregon; and Whereas more than 240,000 women veterans have served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom; and Whereas the Veterans Health Administration health care system presents barriers to women's health care; and Whereas many Oregon women veterans live in rural and remote parts of this state without reasonable access to Veterans Health Administration health care; and Whereas no woman veteran should have to forgo the veteran's earned medical benefits because of physical or emotional barriers; now, therefore, Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon: (1) The Seventy-Sixth Legislative Assembly urges the Congress of the United States of America to fund mobile health care buses for women veterans, staffed with trained physical and mental health professionals from the Veterans Health Administration, that will travel throughout this state providing health care to women veterans in their communities. (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon Congressional Delegation. ---------- Enrolled Senate Joint Memorial 6 (SJM 6-INTRO) Page 1 Adopted by Senate February 28, 2011 ---------------------------------- Robert Taylor, Secretary of Senate ---------------------------------- Peter Courtney, President of Senate Adopted by House May 5, 2011 ---------------------------------- Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House ---------------------------------- Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House Enrolled Senate Joint Memorial 6 (SJM 6-INTRO) Page 2