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S 114

115th Congress

Latest action 2017-08-12: Signed by President.

This bill number also appears in other loaded Congresses: 119th, 118th, 117th, 116th, 114th, 113th, 112th, 111th, 110th, 109th, 108th (bill numbers are reused each Congress, so these are different bills).

VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 bill

sponsor
H001041
introduced
2017-01-12
policy area
Armed Forces and National Security (defense_aerospace)
cosponsors
3
lobbying filings citing it
0
money facing its subject
the record
no source link on the row
44 CRS legislative subjects, as written

Alabama, Appropriations, California, Colorado, Congressional oversight, Department of Veterans Affairs, Employee hiring, Employee performance, Federal officials, Florida, Georgia, Government buildings, facilities, and property, Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management, Government information and archives, Government lending and loan guarantees, Government studies and investigations, Health facilities and institutions, Health personnel, Higher education, Home and outpatient care, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Medicaid, Medical research, Mental health, Michigan, Military medicine, Montana, New York State, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Performance measurement, Public-private cooperation, Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations, South Carolina, South Dakota, Student aid and college costs, Texas, User charges and fees, Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs, Veterans' medical care, Veterans' pensions and compensation, Virginia

Actions: 36 on the record

The record's own timeline, word for word, newest first. An action that names a committee links to it.

datetypeaction, as writtencommittee
2017-01-12 IntroReferral Introduced in Senate
2017-01-12 IntroReferral Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
2017-05-25 Committee Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3190) Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
2017-05-25 Discharge Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3190) Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
2017-05-25 Floor Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S3190)
2017-05-25 Floor Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S3190)
2017-05-25 Floor Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2017-05-26 Floor Received in the House.
2017-05-26 IntroReferral Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
2017-07-24 Floor Mr. Roe (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2017-07-24 Floor Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6151-6158; text of measure as received: CR H6151)
2017-07-24 Floor DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 114.
2017-07-24 Floor At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
2017-07-24 Floor Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6196-6197)
2017-07-24 Floor Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 219 - 186 (Roll no. 408).
2017-07-24 Floor On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 219 - 186 (Roll no. 408).
2017-07-27 Floor Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 480 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of S. 114 with 1 hour of general debate. Motion to recommit with or without instructions allowed. The resolution provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in the Rules Committee report shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
2017-07-28 Floor Rule H. Res. 480 passed House.
2017-07-28 Floor Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 480. (consideration: CR H6531-6538)
2017-07-28 Floor Rule provides for consideration of S. 114 with 1 hour of general debate. Motion to recommit with or without instructions allowed. The resolution provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in the Rules Committee report shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
2017-07-28 Floor DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on S. 114.
2017-07-28 Floor The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
2017-07-28 Floor POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on S. 114, the Chair put the question on passage of the bill and by voice vote, announced that the aye had prevailed. Mr. Roe(TN) demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of passage until later in the legislative day.
2017-07-28 Floor Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6557-6558)
2017-07-28 Floor Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 414 - 0 (Roll no. 438).(text: CR H6531-6535)
2017-07-28 Floor On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 414 - 0 (Roll no. 438). (text: CR H6531-6535)
2017-07-28 Floor Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2017-07-28 Floor The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
2017-07-31 Floor Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.
2017-08-01 NotUsed Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendments to the Senate bill by Voice Vote.(text as Senate agree to the House amendment: CR S4686)
2017-08-01 ResolvingDifferences Senate agreed to the House amendments to the Senate bill by Voice Vote. (text as Senate agree to the House amendment: CR S4686)
2017-08-02 Floor Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2017-08-07 President Presented to President.
2017-08-07 Floor Presented to President.
2017-08-12 BecameLaw Signed by President.
2017-08-12 President Signed by President.

Cosponsors: 3

In order of signing; an original cosponsor signed on introduction day. A withdrawal stays on the record, marked, never deleted.

memberpartystatesigned
Robert P. Casey, Jr. Democrat PA 2017-01-12 original
Angus S. King, Jr. Independent ME 2017-08-01
Susan M. Collins Republican ME 2017-08-01

Lobbying: 0 filings cite this bill

No lobbying filing in the years we collected cites this bill. That means we have not seen one, not that none exists; a filer may also describe a bill without a citation we can read. ‡ lobbying estimates

Money facing this bill

A giver's face is the list of subjects its organization lobbies Congress on, read from its own lobbying reports and spread by how often each subject comes up; a gift from someone who works there is spread the same way.

$411k

measureMoney facing a bill's subject that reached its sponsors, version 3

subjectArmed Forces and National Security

members counted4

members with a candidacy in 20184

this row as datathe stored row

from individual donors whose organizations lobby on Armed Forces and National Security, the bill's policy area, reached the 4 members who sponsor or cosponsor it, in the 2018 cycle, more than 79% of Armed Forces and National Security bills. From PACs whose sponsors lobby on it: $307k, counted separately.

This is money tied to the bill's subject, not money given for or against the bill. It shows what an organization lobbies on, not what position it takes, and no gift is tied to a bill.

The members it reached, and who gave it

The organizations are each member's three largest on this subject. A group of organizations is shown by name only after a person has reviewed it.

Money facing a bill's subject that reached its sponsors, version 3 · ‡ self-reported text ‡ small donors invisible ‡ lobbying estimates

Votes: 2 roll calls tied to this bill by the chambers' own documents

Tallies are the chambers' own published numbers. ‡ votes, not motives

datechamberquestionresultyeasnaysrecord
2017-07-24 house On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended Failed 219 186 the chamber's document
2017-07-28 house On Passage Passed 414 0 the chamber's document

Coverage: bills are loaded for Congresses 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119. We have not collected a Congress missing from that list, so its bills do not show here even though they exist. Lobbying citations cover the LDA years we collected; votes cover the loaded roll-call files. ‡ correlation, not purchase ‡ lobbying estimates ‡ votes, not motives