Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act
The bill directs a large federal investment to build and modernize a VA medical facility in St. Louis—bringing significant improvements in local veteran care and construction jobs—while imposing a sizable immediate cost on taxpayers and carrying risks of overruns and reduced funding for other VA needs.
Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026
This bill increases and automates targeted veterans' and survivors' benefits and expands/extends access to VA home-financing and federal retirement rules, improving support for beneficiaries in the near term but raising federal costs and locking some changes in place (some only temporarily) while leaving gaps for similarly needy people who don't meet existing eligibility.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
The bill strengthens veterans' privacy and protects them from losing rights based solely on VA administrative fiduciary or competence determinations, but it does so at the cost of potentially reducing law-enforcement access to mental-competency information and increasing public-safety risks and administrative burdens by shifting determinations to courts.
25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act
The bill honors 9/11 by authorizing limited-run commemorative coins to support the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and recognize responders and survivors, but it relies on coin sales that can raise costs for purchasers, add administrative burdens, and may delay or fail to produce expected funds for beneficiaries if sales or surcharges fall short.
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill channels substantial new federal support and procedural changes to speed housing supply, disaster recovery, and veteran/tenant protections while increasing transparency, but it raises trade-offs in higher federal spending, larger administrative burdens, privacy and environmental risks, and potential impacts on rental supply and local counseling capacity.
Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035.
The resolution increases multi-year budget predictability and speeds some budget processes (helping defense, certain agencies, and reconciliation-driven priorities) but does so by locking in ceilings and concentrating procedural power in ways that reduce flexibility, oversight, and could constrain investments or rights protections.
Fisher House Availability Act of 2026
The bill expands space-available lodging to better support veterans traveling for non-VA care and their families, improving access and caregiver support, but it risks capacity shortages, added costs, and variable availability unless matched with additional resources and clear implementation safeguards.
Veterans’ Transition to Trucking Act of 2025
The bill centralizes approval of multi-State truck driver apprenticeship programs within the VA to expand and speed GI Bill access and veteran employment in trucking, trading increased federal access and workforce benefits for reduced state control and potential administrative and compliance frictions.
ALERT Act
The bill seeks to strengthen aviation safety, oversight, and modernization across civilian and military operations, but delivers those gains at the expense of increased costs, potential operational disruption and transitional risks, and limited guarantees on enforcement and transparency.
Nicholas Dockery Medal of Honor Act
The bill corrects a past oversight by allowing a veteran to receive the Medal of Honor and improves fairness in award reviews, at the cost of modest administrative expenses and a precedent that could increase DoD workload.
To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Capers, Jr., for acts of valor as a member of the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.
The bill corrects a historic omission by awarding the Medal of Honor to James Capers Jr., delivering symbolic recognition and morale benefits for service members while imposing modest administrative costs and a precedent that could increase future Pentagon workload.
National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Extension Act
The bill standardizes a short title to make citation and public discussion easier, at the cost of modest administrative updates and a small need for citation verification by legal researchers.
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona.
The bill transfers federal land to Gila County at minimal federal cost to support veterans' services and local control, but shifts compliance costs, liability, and restrictive use conditions to the county, potentially straining local finances and exposing it to cleanup and reversion risks.
Veterans Readiness and Employment Improvement Act of 2025
The bill improves veterans' access, flexibility, and short-term financial protections (notably quicker service access and expanded flight-training coverage) but increases costs, reduces an explicit statutory protection, risks uneven training quality and resource diversion, and creates new administrative/reporting burdens.
Ernest Peltz Accrued Veterans Benefits Act
The bill provides clearer payment priority rules and a short-term extension to get unpaid veteran pensions to surviving family members quickly, but it creates a firm one-year claim deadline that can shift funds to estates if relatives miss the deadline and imposes modest administrative burdens and costs.
VETS Opportunity Act of 2025
The bill speeds and clarifies certain VA benefit payments and school‑VA communications—providing one‑time lump payments, clearer rules, and more notice—but it replaces steady monthly housing support with lump sums, may reduce coverage for some independent‑study courses, and imposes new administrative strains and timing tradeoffs on veterans, schools, and the VA.
Veterans Law Judge Experience Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve veterans' claims outcomes and public confidence by prioritizing legally experienced Board appointees, but it risks narrowing the pool of useful experience and may fail to deliver benefits because it lacks enforcement and could encourage credentialism or politicization.
VSAFE Act of 2025
The bill keeps veterans' benefits flowing and creates a centralized, better-resourced VA fraud-response pathway in the near term, but does so without new staffing, raises privacy and complexity risks, and leaves the program time-limited unless Congress acts again.
FAST VETS Act
The bill gives the VA clearer authority to revise veterans' vocational rehabilitation plans to better fit changed needs, but leaves the decision-making discretionary and omits funding, deadlines, and possibly some procedural protections, risking uneven access and weaker safeguards for veterans.
Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act
The bill improves housing access and reduces eligibility confusion for veterans with service‑connected disabilities, at the cost of modestly higher housing assistance demand, potential competition for limited slots, and one‑time administrative and oversight burdens.
VA Budget Shortfall Accountability Act
The bill trades stronger oversight, transparency, and more stable VA funding (benefiting veterans and taxpayers) against added administrative burden, the risk of higher short-term costs, and the possibility that revealed budget weaknesses prompt political scrutiny or funding delays.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy, oversight, veteran supports, emergency response fixes, and symbolic national heritage while imposing new administrative duties, regulatory and procurement burdens, and additional federal costs that shift trade‑offs between stronger protections/accountability and higher taxpayer and public‑sector implementation burdens.
Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act of 2025
The bill gives Alaska Native veterans and tribal communities substantially more time to secure land allotments and eases application timing pressures, but it also prolongs resolution for other stakeholders and raises federal administrative burdens.
Improving Veteran Access to Care Act
The bill aims to modernize VA scheduling to improve veterans' access and program transparency while reducing IT duplication, but it requires upfront spending and raises risks of implementation delays, data privacy/security issues, and possible digital exclusion for some veterans.
Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act
The bill expands and clarifies eligibility so more spouses (including surviving spouses) can access VA employment outreach, improving support for military families, but risks straining VA resources and creating scope or implementation confusion without additional funding and clear guidance.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill delivers sizable boosts to defense readiness, industrial-base resilience, allied support, and service-member protections while substantially expanding reporting and control authorities—trading greater capability, transparency, and domestic industrial investment against higher costs, heavier administrative burdens, compliance friction for contractors, and new privacy and operational‑rigidity risks.
Caring for Veterans and Strengthening National Security Act
The bill expands VA telehealth and mail‑order pharmacy access for veterans in the Freely Associated States and preserves pension protections for two more months—improving care and near‑term benefits for veterans while imposing modest additional costs and implementation/logistical risks for the VA and taxpayers.
Ensuring VetSuccess On Campus Act of 2025
The bill expands VetSuccess on Campus access for veterans across every State and likely improves educational and employment support for VA students, but does so at added federal cost and with a risk of uneven or inefficient coverage that may leave some schools underserved.
ARCA Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and professionalizes VA acquisition to improve reliability, oversight, and fiscal discipline—likely reducing cost overruns and improving services for veterans—while trading increased bureaucracy, upfront costs, transition risk, potential delays, and narrower contractor competition (plus the risk that some repealed authorities reduce existing veteran protections).
Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserves Tuition Fairness Act of 2025
The bill safeguards Selected Reserve students' access to educational benefits and stabilizes school payments, at the cost of increased VA administrative workload and modest additional taxpayer expense.
