Bills · 118th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security

VA COST SAVINGS Enhancements Act

Also known as Department of Veterans Affairs Creation of On-Site Treatment Systems Affording Veterans Improvements and Numerous General Safety Enhancements Act

Where it stands

  1. Introduced2/2/23
  2. Passed HousePassed 3/8/23
  3. Senate
  4. President
  5. Law

Passed the House 426–0 on March 8, 2023 (Roll Call 137 →). Received in the Senate on March 9, 2023. No Senate action since.

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Roll calls on this bill

Votes on passage
HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · 3/8/23Suspension of the rulesA fast-track House procedure, usually for measures expected to have broad support. Debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered, and it needs a two-thirds vote of members voting — not a simple majority. A yes vote passes the bill. “As amended” means changes written into the motion itself are included.Rules of the House, Rule XV, clause 1 ↗
Passed
  • Democratic207 Yea · 0 Nay · 6 Not voting
  • Republican219 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Not voting
  • Independent / Other0 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
Official summary (CRS)

Department of Veterans Affairs Creation of On-Site Treatment Systems Affording Veterans Improvements and Numerous General Safety Enhancements Act or the VA COST SAVINGS Enhancements Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to install and operate an on-site regulated medical waste treatment system at each VA facility that would benefit from such a system's cost savings. In order to identify which VA facilities would benefit, the VA must develop a uniform regulated medical waste cost analysis model to determine the cost savings associated with the use of an on-site regulated medical waste treatment system.

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Sponsor
Rep. Mike Bost ( Republican · IL-12)
Cosponsors
0
Introduced
2/2/23
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security

What happens next

The Senate must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.

If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2025, it expires when the 118th Congress ends.

All actions (12)
  1. 2/2/23Introduced in House
  2. 2/2/23Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
  3. 2/28/23Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  4. 3/7/23Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
  5. 3/7/23Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1125-1126)
  6. 3/7/23DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 753.
  7. 3/7/23At 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.
  8. 3/8/23Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1195-1196)
  9. 3/8/23Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 426 - 0 (Roll no. 137). (text: 3/7/2023 CR H1125)
  10. 3/8/23On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 426 - 0 (Roll no. 137). (text: 3/7/2023 CR H1125)
  11. 3/8/23Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  12. 3/9/23Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.