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H.R. 3455 · 119th Congress

Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025

Introduced May 15, 2025Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: In committee

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

Latest action

: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 292.

Summary

Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report to Congress on the feasibility, potential benefits, and risks associated with implementing distributed ledger technology to improve claims adjudication and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse within the VA’s benefits administration systems. Under the bill, a distributed ledger (1) is shared across a set of distributed nodes that participate in a network and store a complete or partial replica of the ledger, (2) is synchronized between the nodes, and (3) has data appended to it by following a specified consensus mechanism.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 292.

  2. House

    Reported by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-340.

  3. House

    Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.

  4. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  5. House

    Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Discharged

  6. House

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

  7. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

  8. House

    Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  9. Introduced in House