Other Projects and Bills supported by DAV

DAV has worked with Congress to pass Public Law 111-163, the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010, authorizing VA to provide comprehensive support and services to caregivers of veterans injured on or after September 11, 2001.

DAV Launches Operation: Keep the Promise, which urged Congress to pass advance funding for all veterans benefits, programs and services. The goal of the national day of action was to call upon Congress to pass the Putting Veterans Funding First Act (H.R. 813, S. 932), which would shield the Department of Veterans Affairs from Washington’s near-perpetual budget gridlock

H.R. 421: Classified Veterans Access to Care Act (2015)

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the mental health treatment provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to veterans who served in classified missions.

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H.R. 444: Expanding Care for Veterans Act (2015)

To expand the research and education on and delivery of complementary and alternative medicine to veterans, and for other purposes.

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S. 318: Accelerating Biomedical Research Act (2015)

A bill to prioritize funding for the National Institutes of Health to discover treatments and cures, to maintain global leadership in medical innovation, and to restore the purchasing power the NIH had after the historic doubling campaign that ended in fiscal year 2003.

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H.R. 90: Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act

To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct reviews of certain budget requests of the President for the medical care accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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S. 241: Military Family Relief Act of 2015

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of temporary compensation to a surviving spouse of a veteran upon the death of the veteran, and for other purposes.

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