Hearing: Legislative Hearing on: Discussion Draft, Standardizing Treatment and Referral Times Act; Discussion Draft, No Wrong Door for Veterans Act; Discussion Draft, Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act; Discussion Draft, Veterans Supporting Prosthetics Opportunities and Recreational Therapy Act; Discussion Draft, To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Comptroller General of the United States to report on certain funding shortfalls in the Department of Veterans Affairs; H.R. 217, CHIP IN for Veterans Act (Rep. Bacon); H.R. 1107, Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 (Rep. Womack); H.R. 1336, The Veterans National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act (Rep. Murphy); H.R. 658, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration; Discussion Draft, Copay Fairness for Veterans Act; Discussion Draft, Saving Our Veterans Lives Act; and Discussion Draft, Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act

Subcommittee on Health (Committee on Veterans' Affairs)

360 CHOB
Washington, D.C.

Witnesses

Text of Legislation

• H.R.217, CHIP IN for Veterans Act (Rep. Bacon) [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• H.R.658, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration (Rep. Brownley) [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate copayments by the Department of Affairs for medicines relating to preventive health services, and for other purposes (Rep. Underwood) [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To amend title 39, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program to furnish to certain individuals items used for the secure storage of firearms, and for other purposes (Rep. Deluzio) [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, to designate Regional Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Care Coordinators to expand the work of the Breast and Gynecologic Oncology System of Excellence at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To amend and reauthorize the Staff Sergeant Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Rep. Miller-Meeks) [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To amend title 38, United States Code, to include adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and other recreational activities in the medical services furnished to eligible veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Rep. Miller-Meeks [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen to a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder (Rep. Murphy) [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To amend title 38, Untied States Code, to authorize certain health care professional employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver, distribute, or dispense to veterans certain controlled medications via telemedicine under certain conditions, and for other purposes (Rep. Womack) [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Comptroller General of the United States to report on certain funding shortfalls in the Department of Veterans Affairs [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the period during which the referral of a veteran, made by a health care provider of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to a non-Department provider, for care or services under the Community Care Program of such Department, remains valid (Rep. Miller-Meeks [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM
• Discussion Draft, To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse State homes for the cost of, or to furnish to State homes, certain costly medications provided to veterans who receive nursing home care in such State homes, and for other purposes [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM

Support Documents

• Hearing Notice [PDF]
• Statement for the Record - Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:15 PM

Hearing Record

• Witness List [PDF] Added 03/07/2025 at 02:04 PM

First Published: February 28, 2025 at 02:20 PM
Last Updated: March 7, 2025 at 04:23 PM