United StatesTRAVEL Act of 2025
What it does
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assign a physician who has been appointed in the Veterans Health Administration to serve as a traveling physician for a period of not more than one year. Such physician must provide health care to veterans at VA facilities located in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
More detail
Traveling physicians must coordinate with non-VA providers when necessary to ensure high quality and coordinated care for veterans receiving hospital care and medical services.
The VA must provide a relocation or retention bonus to traveling physicians.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Sep 16Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.Latest
- Sep 15Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Vote recorded On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Result: Passed.House
- Sep 15Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4284)
- Sep 15DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3400.
- Sep 15At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- Sep 15Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4300)
- Sep 15Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 371 - 21 (Roll no. 266). (text: CR H4284: 1)Passed House
- Sep 15On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 371 - 21 (Roll no. 266). (text: CR H4284)
- Sep 15Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 10Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-263.
- Sep 10Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.
- Jul 23Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jul 23Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Jul 3Subcommittee on Health Discharged
- Jun 12Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Jun 6Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 14Introduced in House
- May 14Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.Introduced