Newborn Care Improvement Act of 2019

Newborn Care Improvement Act of 2019

This bill increases from 7 to 14 the number of days that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may furnish health care services, including post-delivery care, to the newborn child of a woman veteran who delivered the child in a VA facility or another facility pursuant to a VA contract for such services.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2645 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2645

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the care provided by 
         the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to newborn children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 2019

Mrs. Lee of Nevada (for herself, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mrs. Walorski, 
and Ms. Houlahan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the care provided by 
         the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to newborn children.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Newborn Care Improvement Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROVIDED TO NEWBORN 
              CHILDREN BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Section 1786 of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``seven days'' and inserting ``14 days''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Annual Report.--Not later than 31 days after the end of each 
fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans' 
Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the 
House of Representatives a report on the health care services provided 
under subsection (a) during such fiscal year, including the number of 
newborn children who received such services during such fiscal year.''.
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