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Version 80 · Reported to Senate without amendment · Jul 8, 2009
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Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act of 2009 - Requires, beginning with FY2011, a two-fiscal-year new discretionary budget authority for the following accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): (1) Medical Services; (2) Medical Support and Compliance; and (3) Medical Facilities.
Requires the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct a study on the adequacy and accuracy of VA baseline model projections for health care expenditures; and (2) report during 2011-2013 to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the congressional veterans, appropriations, and budget committees on the sufficiency of budget requests for VA health expenditures in relation to the baseline model projections.
People & committees
Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] · D–HI
Legislative record
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See also H.R. 1016.
Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 101. (consideration: CR S9059)
Senate passed companion measure H.R. 1016 in lieu of this measure by Unanimous Consent.
Senate incorporated this measure in H.R. 1016 as an amendment.
The bill was read the third time.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9058-9059)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 101.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka without amendment. With written report No. 111-41.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka without amendment. With written report No. 111-41.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2232-2233)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2232)
Introduced in Senate
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