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HR 3494 · in committee · major

VA Hospital Inventory Management System Authorization Act

What this bill does

  • The bill allows the Department of Veterans Affairs to buy or build a cloud-based system to manage hospital inventory.
  • Veterans and VA medical facilities will be affected by improvements to how supplies and materials are tracked.
  • The VA must test the system at one facility before rolling it out across all VA hospitals.

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    How might a cloud-based inventory system reduce supply shortages or delays that affect veteran care at VA hospitals?

  2. 02

    What are the estimated costs for developing and maintaining this system, and how would they be funded within the VA budget?

  3. 03

    What safeguards would protect veteran data and hospital operations during the pilot testing phase at a single facility?

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Jennifer A. Kiggans

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Introduced 2025-09-16

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-09-16 · senate · IntroReferral

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  2. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4296)

  4. 2025-09-15 · Floor

    Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4296-4297: 1)

  5. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3494.

  6. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4296)

  7. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  8. 2025-09-15 · house · Calendars

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 229.

  9. 2025-09-15 · house · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-273.

  10. 2025-09-15 · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-273.

  11. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

  12. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  13. 2025-07-03 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Discharged

  14. 2025-06-11 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

  15. 2025-06-03 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

  16. 2025-05-19 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  17. 2025-05-19 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  18. 2025-05-19 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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