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Protection and Advocacy for Veterans Act

5128

114th Congress

Armed Forces and National Security

In Committee

Legislative Progress

✓

Introduced

Committee

Floor Vote

Other Chamber

Enacted

Introduced

April 29, 2016

Latest Action

May 13, 2016

Primary Sponsor

Martha RobyRepublican(AL)

Momentum (last 30 days)

score

0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes

Speed vs cohort

51pct

14d open

vs 6,526 other HR bills in the 114th — cohort avg 56d

Summary

Protection and Advocacy for Veterans Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a five-year grant program to improve the monitoring of VA mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. The VA shall award a grant to four protection and advocacy systems under which each recipient shall investigate and monitor VA facilities care and treatment of veterans with mental illness or substance abuse issues. Criteria for selecting recipients shall include whether the state in which the protection and advocacy system operates has low mental health, performance, and access scores. During each year in which a protection and advocacy system carries out a demonstration project, the VA shall award a joint grant to a national organization with extensive knowledge of the protection and advocacy system and a veterans service organization to: (1) coordinate training and technical assistance, and (2) provide for related data collection, reporting, and analysis. "Protection and advocacy system" means the state-established system to protect and advocate the rights of persons with developmental disabilities.

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Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets

Signed on to a joint letter of support of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2017, HR 4909, provision advocating protecting victims of military sexual trauma from non-disability mental health discharges from the military that give them other than honorable discharges - House and Senate HR 5620 Sent a letter of support to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the removal or demotion of employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs based on performance or misconduct, and for other purposes - House HR 5128 & S 3141 Protection & Advocacy for Veterans Act. Sent a letter of support of this legislation - a VA grant to improve the monitoring of mental health & substance abuse treatment programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs. - House and Senate Sent a letter for the Congressional record to VA Transportation & Infrastructure subcommittee requesting that they fund VA leases for VA medical facilities - House and Senate National Defense Authorization Act FY 2017, HR 4909 United Spinal signed onto a letter to the House and Senate Armed Services Committee regarding the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) opposing weakened provisions regarding the federal contractors that have violated Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) - both of which address the recruiting and hiring of people with disabilities and veterans and other civil rights or labor laws when they bid on contracts. This provision is limited to contractors that have actually been debarred. This letter from the CCD Employment, Rights, and Veterans Task Forces urges the Armed Services committee leadership in both houses to remove the weakened provision. Doing so would hold federal contractors accountable for disability discrimination and discrimination against veterans (as well as violations of other laws).