A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide for the right of the United States to recover the costs of hospital, nursing home or outpatient medical care furnished by the Veterans Administration to veterans for nonservice-connected disabilities to the extent that they have health insurance or similar contracts or rights with respect to such care, or have entitlement to private medical care under workers' compensation or automobile accident reparation statutes of any State, and for other purposes.

4 steps remain before this bill could become law.

The record's latest action, on April 5, 1979: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

1. Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
2. Passage by the House
3. Passage by the Senate
4. The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.

Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.

In the 96th Congress (1979-80), 613 of the 12,581 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 4.9 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.

This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.

No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.

A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.

ROBERT EDGAR (D-PA) introduced it on April 5, 1979. No cosponsors are recorded.

Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.

It was introduced on April 5, 1979, 17325 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 17325 days ago, on April 5, 1979.

Measures do not carry over. Anything the 96th Congress has not finished by January 3, 1981 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.