S.9 - Service-Disabled Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1987100th Congress (1987-1988)

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12/04/1987 Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.

12/04/1987 Senate passed companion measure H.R. 2616 in lieu of this measure by Yea-Nay Vote. 88-0. Record Vote No: 400.

12/04/1987 Senate incorporated this measure in H.R. 2616 as an amendment.

12/04/1987 Considered by Senate.

12/04/1987 S.Amdt.1250 SP 1250 fell when SP 1249 tabled.

12/04/1987 S.Amdt.1249 Motion to table SP 1249 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47-42. Record Vote No: 399.

12/04/1987 S.Amdt.1250 Proposed by Senator Metzenbaum to Amendment SP 1249. Of a perfecting nature, concerning the prohibition of hard-to-detect firearms.

12/04/1987 S.Amdt.1249 Proposed by Senator Thurmond. To provide for the prohibition of hard-to-detect firearms.

12/03/1987 Measure laid before Senate.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1234 Amendment SP 1234 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1246 Amendment SP 1246 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1241 Proposed by Senator Cranston to Amendment SP 1240. To make amendment SP 1240 effective December 15, 1987.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1237 Proposed amendment SP 1237 withdrawn in Senate.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1235 Proposed amendment SP 1235 withdrawn in Senate.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1239 Proposed amendment SP 1239 withdrawn in Senate.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1245 Amendment SP 1245 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1242 Amendment SP 1242 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1240 Amendment SP 1240 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1244 Amendment SP 1244 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1243 Amendment SP 1243 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1247 Amendment SP 1247 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1238 SP 1238 fell when SP 1237 withdrawn.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1236 SP 1236 fell when SP 1235 withdrawn.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1234 Motion to table SP 1234 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 29-67. Record Vote No: 395.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1246 Motion to table rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 24-68. Record Vote No: 396.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1234 Proposed by Senator DeConcini. To strike section 333 from S.9 as reported from the Veterans Affairs Committee. This section adresses the matter of drug testing within the V.A.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1239 Proposed by Senator Helms. To provide certain recordkeeping and testing requirements relating to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1242 Proposed by Senator Murkowski. To deny funds for projects of the Veteran's Administration that use the engineering, architectural, and construction services of any foreign country that does not provide such services of the United States access to the markets of the foreign country.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1244 Proposed by Senator Graham. To require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to submit to Congress a report on the health care resources allocated by the Veterans' Administration to Veterans' Administration facilities in each State in fiscal years 1982 through 1986 and the utilization of the health care resources allocated to such facilities in each such fiscal year.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1237 Proposed by Senator Helms. To provide certain recordkeeping and testing requirements relating to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1245 Proposed by Senator Cranston to Amendment SP 1244. To make SP 1244 effective December 15, 1987.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1238 Proposed by Senator Cranston to Amendment SP 1237. Of a perfecting nature.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1246 Proposed by Senator Helms. To provide certain recordkeeping and testing requirements relating to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1236 Proposed by Senator Cranston to Amendment SP 1235. To make amendment SP 1235 effective December 15, 1987.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1240 Proposed by Senator Murkowski. To require actual testing of containers for plutonium transported by aircraft through the air space of the United States.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1235 Proposed by Senator Murkowski. To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to conduct a mandatory random employee drug testing program.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1243 Proposed by Senator Cranston to Amendment SP 1242. To make SP 1242 effective December 15, 1987.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1247 Proposed by Senator Helms to Amendment SP 1246. Of a perfecting nature.

12/03/1987 S.Amdt.1241 Amendment SP 1241 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

11/06/1987 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 432.

11/06/1987 Committee on Veterans. Reported to Senate by Senator Cranston with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 100-215. Additional and minority views filed.

07/31/1987 Committee on Veterans incorporated provisions of related measures S. 1491, S. 1510, S. 918, S. 1090, S. 940, S. 1002, S. 6, S. 939, S. 216, S. 1506, S. 1136, S. 713, S. 1195, S. 1065, S. 915, S. 105, S. 1063, S. 631, S. 1089, S. 1517, S. 917 in reported measure.

07/31/1987 Committee on Veterans. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

06/30/1987 Committee on Veterans. Hearings held.

06/17/1987 Committee on Veterans. Hearings held.

02/10/1987 Committee on Veterans requested executive comment from VA, OMB.

01/06/1987 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.