GETTING THE BACKS OF OUR VETERANS

Action: This bill allows the Department of Defense to negotiate with institutions of higher education to provide training or internships to members of the Armed Forces under the Skillbridge program.

Result Introduced

Date: 1/25/24

Action: This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct a study to identify participants of the Skillbridge program that offers apprenticeships to members of the Armed Forces.

Result: Introduced

Date: 1/25/24

Action: This amendment adds support for veterans, particularly homeless veterans, to the list of allowed purposes States can use remaining Community Services Block Grant Program funds.

Result: Amendment Passed Unanimously

Date: 5/13/22

Action: This amendment adds veterans who are recent graduates and/or recipients of Post-9/11 GI Bill Educational Assistance as a group who can receive an excepted service appointment.

Result: Agreed to by voice vote in the House. 

Date: 3/17/2017

Action: This amendment will require the Department of Veterans Affairs and State homes that provide housing to veterans to also have resident advocates.

Result: House – 08/27/2024 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Action: This bill ensures every servicemember has access to credit monitoring services by making all servicemembers, including traditional National Guardsmen and Reservists, eligible for a free credit monitoring service.

 

Result: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Date: Introduced 04/14/2022

Action: This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to award a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of Larry Doby, in recognition of his achievements and contributions to American major league athletics, civil rights, and the Armed Forces during World War II.

Result: Became Public Law No: 115-322.

Date: 12/17/2017

Action: This bill awards a Congressional Gold Medal to the 369th Infantry Regiment, commonly known as the Harlem Hellfighters, in recognition of their bravery and outstanding service during World War I.

Result:  Became Public Law No: 117-38.

Date: 8/25/21

Action: This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to create up to 50,000 $5 coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins, and 750,000 half-dollar clad coins in commemoration of the National World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia.

Result:  Became Public Law No 117-162.

Date: 08/03/2022

Action: This bill awards a Congressional Gold Medal to Benjamin Berell Ferencz in recognition of his service to the United States and the international community during the post-World War II Nuremberg trials, and his lifelong advocacy for international criminal justice.

Result:Passed House 

Date:11/18/2021

Action: This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to create $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins emblematic of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor. The bill only allows these coins to be created for one year starting on January 1, 2022. 

Result: Became Public Law No: 116-247. 

Date: 12/22/2020

Action: This bill allows veterans who are honorably discharged to qualify for a preference in the federal hiring process, and allows for retired members of the Armed Forces to be eligible for a veterans’ preference. 

Result:  Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform by The House of Representatives

Date: 11/9/2021

Action: This bill instructs the USDA to work with state departments of agriculture to identify farmers and ranchers eligible for a direct loan to train apprentice veterans. The loan would, in turn, be paid back to the USDA after the harvest season.

Result:  Referred to Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity by the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

Date: 9/8/2021

Action: This bill changes the tax code to give a tax credit to businesses to hire military spouses.
Result: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.

Date: 3/1/2023

Action: This bill improves awareness and modernizes an interest rate reduction benefit currently under used by, and already available to, active-duty military servicemembers.
Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Date: 1/9/2024

Action: This bill provides PreCheck to certain severely injured or disabled veterans to make airline travel faster and easier..
Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Date: 2/15/2024

Action: This bill requires the independence of counselors providing financial services assistance to members of the Armed Forces to be verified. .
Result: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Date: 4/11/2024

Action: This bill requires the Security of Defense to award grants to fund research on orthotics and prosthetics.

Result: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Date: 4/30/2024

Action: This bill excludes certain disability benefits from being counted as income in determining eligibility for veterans in the supported housing program.
Result: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Date: 5/10/2024

Action: This bill creates the standard that Veteran firefighters who become disabled by serious diseases — including heart disease, lung disease, and certain cancers — contracted the illness due to their service in the military and extend the window of time for Veteran military firefighters with certain diseases to claim a service-connection to their injuries for 15 years — allowing the VA to provide equitable disability benefits and treatment cost coverage. 

Result:  Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs

Date: 02/07/2020

Action: This bill requires the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat full-time National Guard duty performed in response to COVID-19 as a period of more than 90 days so that they may qualify for certain retirement and education benefits. 

Result:Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Date: 09/30/2020

Action: This bill awards a Congressional Gold Medal to the Americans who actively aided and rescued Jews and other refugees during the period of Nazi Germany’s genocidal Final Solution policy to murder every Jew in Europe.
Result: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Date: 4/18/23

Action: This resolution recognizes the importance of the contributions and sacrifices made by veterans of the Korean War and Korean Defense Veterans.

Result: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Date: 11/10/22

Action: This resolution calls on the Department of Veterans Affairs to review its policy that excludes coverage for Agent Orange exposure for veterans, and to expand coverage to include veterans who served in the Armed Forces in the bays, harbors, and territorial seas of the Republic of Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975.. 

Result: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Date: 4/4/2017