Bill Text: OR SJM8 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass legislation to pay for treatment by providers other than Veterans Health Administration facilities for victims of military sexual trauma.

Spectrum: Unknown

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SJM8 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SJM8-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                     Senate Joint Memorial 8

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  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 pass legislation requiring United States
Department of Veterans Affairs to pay for treatment obtained from
providers other than Veterans Health Administration facilities by
victims of military sexual trauma.

                         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 United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration is charged with providing health
care, including mental health care, to all eligible veterans; and
  Whereas military sexual trauma, which can result in
post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and other
mental and emotional health concerns, is at epidemic levels in
the Armed Forces of the United States with one in every five
female servicemembers claiming to have experienced some form of
military sexual trauma; and
  Whereas demand for mental health care from the Veterans Health
Administration significantly outpaces the amount of mental health
care that the Veterans Health Administration can provide; and
  Whereas the caseloads of Veterans Health Administration mental
health care providers are so large that the providers cannot
provide appropriate and timely care to veterans seeking care; and
  Whereas Veterans Health Administration mental health care is an
earned benefit for all eligible veterans; 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 pass legislation that requires the United
States Department of Veterans Affairs to pay for mental health
care obtained from providers other than Veterans Health
Administration facilities by victims of military sexual trauma.

  (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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