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Last progress July 21, 2025 (6 months ago)
Introduced on June 12, 2025 by Marsha Blackburn
Designates June 12, 2025, as "Women Veterans Appreciation Day" to recognize the service and sacrifices of women who served in the U.S. Armed Forces and encourages sharing their stories through the Veterans History Project. The measure is ceremonial and does not create new programs, funding, or legal obligations.
Women have served throughout every period of United States history to secure and preserve freedom and liberty.
Women have formally been part of the Armed Forces since the establishment of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901 and have informally served since the inception of the U.S. military.
2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 356, chapter 449), which legally allowed women to serve in all four branches of the military.
More than 3,000,000 women have served the United States honorably and with valor on land, on sea, in the air, and in space.
As of 2023, women constitute approximately 18 percent of Armed Forces personnel on active duty.
Who is affected and how:
Women veterans: Primary beneficiaries of recognition. The designation raises public awareness of their service and may encourage commemorative events, storytelling, and local outreach that highlight their experiences.
Veterans organizations, libraries, and community groups: May use the day to host events, collect oral histories, and promote the Veterans History Project; potential uptick in volunteer-led activities and local programming.
Active-duty service members and military families: Indirectly affected via increased public awareness of women's contributions to the armed forces; could influence community recognition and recruitment/outreach messaging.
Federal agencies and programs: No new legal or funding responsibilities. Agencies that already run oral-history or veterans outreach programs (e.g., entities that support the Veterans History Project) may coordinate events but are not required to do so.
Overall impact: Symbolic and awareness-focused. The resolution encourages commemoration and story‑gathering but creates no programmatic changes, funding, or mandates. Its main likely outcomes are increased visibility for women veterans, more local or organizational observances on the designated date, and potential boosts to oral history collection efforts.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.