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To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the process by which the Secretary of Defense verifies that health care professionals of the military departments are appropriately licensed.
To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the process by which the Secretary of Defense verifies that health care professionals of the military departments are appropriately licensed.
Summary
The bill requires the Secretary of Defense to establish a centralized system to verify that health care professionals working at Department of Defense medical facilities are appropriately licensed. Commanding officers at DoD health care facilities would use this system to verify licensure of health care professionals regardless of the location of the facility or the military service branch. At least 90 percent of verifications must be completed within seven days of a commanding officer's request, unless the health care professional has an adverse record.
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- May 29, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. · house
- May 29, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 29, 2025
Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia (for herself and Ms. Jacobs) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the process by which the Secretary of Defense verifies that health care professionals of the military departments are appropriately licensed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. VERIFICATION OF LICENSURE OF HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS OF THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS.
Subsection (b) of section 1094 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“(b)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each individual who provides health care independently as a health-care professional at a health care facility of the Department of Defense meets the requirement of subsection (a).
“(2) In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall establish a centralized credential system that allows the commanding officer of a health care facility of the Department to verify the licensure of a health-care professional, regardless of the location of the facility or the armed force in which the health-care professional serves. The Secretary shall ensure that not less than 90 percent of such verifications are completed within seven days of the date on which the commanding officer requests such verification if the request does not relate to a health-care professional with an adverse record.”. <all>
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