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HR 3400In Committee

TRAVEL Act of 2025

Introduced May 14, 2025

Summary

The Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025This 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.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.

Votes

housePassed
Yea 370Nay 21Not voting 38

By party

Democrat195 yea · 0 nay · 17 not voting
Republican175 yea · 21 nay · 21 not voting

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Timeline

  1. Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  2. Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. 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)

  4. Passed/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)

  5. Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4300)

  6. At 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.

  7. DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3400.

  8. Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4284)

  9. Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  10. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.

  11. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-263.

  12. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-263.

  13. Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

  14. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  15. Subcommittee on Health Discharged

  16. Subcommittee Hearings Held

  17. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

  18. Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  19. Introduced in House

  20. Introduced in House

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