To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to modify the hours of employment of physicians and physician assistants employed on a full-time basis by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Medical Staffing Recruitment and Retention Act
(Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), upon the advanced written request of a covered physician, to modify the hours of employment for a full-time VA physician to be more than or less than 80 hours in a biweekly pay period.
For purpose of determining pay, such a physician shall be deemed to have a biweekly employment schedule of 80 hours.
A physician with an irregular work schedule must account for at least 2,080 employment hours (through work or use of leave or paid time off) in a calendar year.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 716.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-212.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 114-811.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 114-811.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 635.
Mr. Roe (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7248-7249)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4150.
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Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7248)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7248)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate.