75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2009 Regular Session
 
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                     Senate Joint Memorial 2
 
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  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Governor Theodore R.
  Kulongoski for Department of Veterans' Affairs)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Urges Congress to enact legislation creating statewide
transportation system to provide transportation for Oregon
veterans, particularly disabled veterans, to and from medical
facilities.
 
                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas veterans who have served our great nation have earned
United States Department of Veterans Affairs health care
benefits; and
  Whereas the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
strives to provide quality health care to veterans through
community-based outpatient clinics, medical centers and other
medical facilities; and
  Whereas locations of veterans' health care facilities are based
upon veteran population in a particular area; and
  Whereas many Oregon veterans reside in rural or remote areas of
Oregon that do not have a large enough veteran population to meet
the criteria for placing a veterans' health care facility in a
particular area; and
  Whereas Oregon veterans who reside in rural or remote areas
must travel significant distances to access medical care; and
  Whereas Oregon lacks a dependable statewide transportation
system to transport veterans, particularly disabled veterans, to
and from medical facilities, resulting in veterans being unable
to access health care; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) That the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly urges the
Congress of the United States to enact legislation that creates a
statewide transportation system in Oregon that would provide
 
transportation for Oregon veterans, particularly disabled
veterans, to and from medical facilities.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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