VOICE for Women Veterans Act

Each report would include counts of women veterans enrolled in VA health care, those who received care, and appointments completed. The information would be broken down by location, type of care, and whether care was in person or by telehealth, with comparisons to earlier reports when available.

Reports would analyze the availability and use of gender-specific services at VA facilities and through non-VA providers. They would include wait times, estimated driving times, reasons appointments could not be scheduled with non-VA providers, and use of non-VA care.

Reports would cover the number of VA providers offering gender-specific services, vacancies and hiring barriers, and positions in women’s health that were realigned or removed. They would also describe provider training, including training offered to community care providers.

Reports would describe emerging and women-specific health conditions, VA diagnosis and treatment, and related benefit claims and appeals. To the extent practicable, they would also cover women veterans’ use of education, vocational rehabilitation, and disability compensation benefits.

Reports would describe VA’s implementation of specified provisions of the Deborah Sampson Act. The Secretary could combine this report with other reports required by law if doing so would not delay either report by more than 30 days and all required information is included; the Secretary would have to notify the relevant congressional committees at least 45 days before consolidating reports.