Bill Text: OR SJM7 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging Congress to require United States Department of Veterans Affairs to pay veterans' transportation costs in certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Unknown

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SJM7 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SJM7-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                     Senate Joint Memorial 7

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  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)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Urges Congress to require United States Department of Veterans
Affairs to pay veterans' transportation costs in certain
circumstances.

                         JOINT MEMORIAL
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 Veterans Health Administration of the United States
Department of Veterans Affairs is charged with providing health
care to all eligible veterans; and
  Whereas the Veterans Health Administration will pay for health
care provided to veterans by providers other than the Veterans
Health Administration under certain conditions; and
  Whereas federal law states that a veteran who seeks emergency
care at a facility not operated by the Veterans Health
Administration must be transported to a Veterans Health
Administration facility as soon as the veteran is stable; and
  Whereas facilities not operated by the Veterans Health
Administration often provide transportation for the veteran to a
Veterans Health Administration facility once the veteran is
stable; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) The Congress of the United States of America is
respectfully urged to require the Veterans Health Administration
to pay the transportation costs when a veteran who sought
emergency care at a facility not operated by the Veterans Health
Administration is transported to a Veterans Health Administration
facility, including reimbursement to a facility not operated by
the Veterans Health Administration if that facility provided the
transportation.
  (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.
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