{"id":356,"date":"2015-08-17T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=356"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:24:05","slug":"house-passes-two-vet-focused-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/house-passes-two-vet-focused-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Two Vet Focused Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House recently passed two pieces of VA reform legislation. <a href=\"https:\/\/veterans.house.gov\/sites\/republicans.veterans.house.gov\/files\/HR%201994%20as%20amended_One%20Pager_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The VA Accountability Act of 2015<\/a> passed with a vote of 256 \u2013 170.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/veterans.house.gov\/sites\/republicans.veterans.house.gov\/files\/Summary_the%20VA%20Budget%20and%20Choice%20Improvement%20Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015<\/a> passed with a vote of 385 \u2013 34. A statement by House Committee on Veterans Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller on both of these bills is available on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/veterans.house.gov\/press-release\/house-passes-two-historic-va-reform-bills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Committee on Veterans Affairs website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on military legislation that affects service members and veterans, and to contact your local representatives, visit the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capwiz.com\/military\">Military.com Legislative Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House recently passed two pieces of VA reform legislation. The VA Accountability Act of 2015 passed with a vote of 256 \u2013 170. The Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 passed with a vote of 385 \u2013 34. A statement by House Committee on Veterans Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/house-passes-two-vet-focused-bills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House Passes Two Vet Focused Bills<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}