All Roll Calls
Yes: 412 • No: 2
Sponsored By: Senator Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Became Law
This law lets the Secretary of Veterans Affairs transfer names of Department properties to other covered Department properties when a narrow set of conditions are met. The law requires the original name to come from statute, the Department to no longer offer benefits or services at the original site, the receiving property to be similar in type and purpose and at a different address within the same named locality, and at least 30 days notice to the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs committees and to the State's members of Congress, and it makes legal and regulatory references to the old name apply to the new property while defining covered property to include facilities, structures, real property, and major portions like wings or floors.
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The VA can move a property’s official name to another VA site. The old site must have been named by law and no longer offer VA benefits or services. The new site must be similar in type and purpose and at a different address in the same town or local area. The VA must give the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees and the State’s members of Congress 30 days’ notice. After the move, all laws and records that named the old site now mean the new site.
Tester, Jon [D-MT]
MT • D
Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
MT • R
Sponsored 2/1/2022
All Roll Calls
Yes: 412 • No: 2
house vote • 5/17/2022
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 412 • No: 2
117-s-3373, Honoring our PACT Act of 2022
Expanded, science‑based presumptions and VA care for toxic‑exposed veterans. The law creates a public scientific process to set or change presumptions, expands who can get VA hospital and medical care for illnesses tied to toxic exposures, and requires centralized exposure records.
117-s-1511, Protecting America’s First Responders Act of 2021
Changes how death and permanent disability payments are calculated and paid. It restructures benefit math, expands who counts as injured or eligible, and gives the Bureau and Justice Department more tools to decide and speed claims. - Officers and survivors: Rewrites the benefit formula to pay the greater of amounts with a new base of $6,000 adjusted for inflation. It also creates a rule that claims pending more than 365 days use the amount that would apply on the final determination. - Families and dependents: Strengthens educational assistance by requiring payment to eligible dependents unless prospective assistance has already been provided. - Eligibility and claims process: Broadens definitions for catastrophic injury, candidate officer, action outside jurisdiction, and emergency activities. It authorizes stronger investigative tools and subpoenas, appoints hearing examiners as special government employees with Attorney General involvement, bars abandoning claims before information is gathered, and extends a related first-responders program until the earlier of the COVID emergency end or Dec 31, 2023.
117-s-2607, Iran Hostages Congressional Gold Medal Act
Honors the 53 Americans held hostage in Tehran with a single Congressional Gold Medal. The law defines who counts as a hostage, documents their physical and psychological hardships and notes that 35 of the hostages were still living. It directs the Treasury to design and strike the gold medal, places that medal with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for display and loan, and allows the U.S. Mint to sell bronze duplicates to cover costs with proceeds deposited to the Mint’s Public Enterprise Fund.
117-sres-845, A resolution recognizing National Native American Heritage Month and celebrating the heritages and cultures of Native Americans and the contributions of Native Americans to the United States.
117-sres-826, A resolution designating October 26, 2022, as the "Day of the Deployed".
117-sres-817, A resolution expressing support for the designation of October 2 through October 8, 2022, as "National 4-H Week".
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