1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Newborn Care Improvement Act of 2019”.
Newborn Care Improvement Act of 2019
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to newborn children.
2. Improvement of health care services provided to newborn children by Department of Veterans Affairs
Section 1786 of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “seven days” and inserting “14 days”; and
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(c) Annual report—Not later than 31 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the health care services provided under subsection (a) during such fiscal year, including the number of newborn children who received such services during such fiscal year.”