Veterans Administration Physicians and Dentists Pay Comparability Act of 1980
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Veterans' Administration Physicians and Dentists Pay Comparability Act of 1980 - Amends the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975 to repeal the September 30, 1981, as is on special pay agreements. Exempts health-care personnel of the Veterans' Administration's Department of Medicine and Surgery from specified government organization and employees provisions. Authorizes the appointment of part-time personnel without regard to specified part-time government workers provisions. Increases special pay for physicians and dentists. Revises related incentive special pay provisions for full and part-time physicians and dentists. Provides that dentists or physicians with a least 15 years' full-time service with the Veterans' Administration's Department of Medicine and Surgery shall be credited with four years of additional service (plus additional time for post-graduate training) for civil service annuity purposes.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on December 14, 1979. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on December 14, 1979: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
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.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
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.
Who is behind it?
DAVE SATTERFIELD (D-VA) introduced it on December 14, 1979, and 6 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They come from both major parties: 2 Democrats, 4 Republicans.
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.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on December 14, 1979, 17119 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 17119 days ago, on December 14, 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.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers