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H.R. 3400 · 119th Congress

TRAVEL Act of 2025

Introduced May 14, 2025Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: Passed House

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Law

Latest action

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

Summary

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

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.

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.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. Senate

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

  2. House

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

  3. 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)

  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. House

    Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4300)

  6. House

    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. House

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

  8. House

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

  9. House

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

  10. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.

  11. House

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

  12. House

    Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

Show 6 earlier actions
  1. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  2. House

    Subcommittee on Health Discharged

  3. House

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

  4. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

  5. House

    Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  6. Introduced in House