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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 128
111TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 111-60
VETERANS' HEALTH CARE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2009
JULY 24, 2009.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. AKAKA, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 252]
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs (hereinafter, the Com-
mittee), to which was referred the bill (S. 252), to amend title 38,
United States Code, to enhance the capacity of the Department of
Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical
health-care professionals, to improve the provision of health care to
veterans, and for other purposes, reports favorably thereon, with
an amendment, and recommends that the bill, as amended, do
pass.
INTRODUCTION
On January 15, 2009, Chairman Akaka introduced S.252, the
proposed Veterans' Health Care Authorization Act of 2009. S. 252
as introduced would enhance the capacity of the Department of
Veterans Affairs (hereinafter, VA) to recruit and retain nurses
and other critical health care professionals. This bill included a ma-
jority of provisions from S. 2969, legislation introduced on May 1,
2008 by Chairman Akaka in the 110th Congress. S.2969 was re-
ported favorably by the Committee, S. Rpt. 110-473, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute, and was subsequently
placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on September 18, 2008.
It was not taken up by the Senate prior to the adjournment of the
110th Congress.
S. 2969 as reported and S.252 as introduced include provisions
derived from a number of other bills, described below.
On October 31, 2007, Chairman Akaka introduced, by request,
S. 2273, the proposed Enhanced Opportunities for Formerly Home-
less Veterans Residing in Permanent Housing Act of 2007. S. 2273
would enhance services for previously homeless veterans and for
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