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Veterans Support: Education and Automatic Healthcare Enrollment

This resolution paves the way for voting on two important bills. The first bill aims to ensure that time spent on military training counts towards veterans' educational benefits. The second bill introduces automatic enrollment of eligible veterans into the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system, simplifying their access to benefits.
Key points
Veterans will receive educational assistance for time spent on military training.
Eligible veterans will be automatically enrolled in the VA healthcare system, simplifying access to care.
The deadline for considering certain resolutions has been extended to February 4, 2022.
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VOTING RESULTS
2022-01-11
For 219
Against 203
Abstain 0
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Status:
Adopted
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Additional Information
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1836) to amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that the time during which members of the Armed Forces serve on active duty for training qualifies for educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4673) to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the automatic enrollment of eligible veterans in patient enrollment system of Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
Print number: HRES 860
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Process start date: 2022-01-10
Voting date: 2022-01-11
Meeting no: 2
Voting no: 3