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HR 1912 · enacted · significant

Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The VA must establish clear procedures and timelines for reimbursing veterans whose benefits were misused by a fiduciary.
  • Veterans and their surviving beneficiaries affected by fiduciary misuse of VA benefits are covered.
  • The VA cannot delay reimbursement while investigating its own negligence, and must pay deceased beneficiaries' families using standard VA survivor payment rules.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How should the VA balance the speed of reimbursing veterans against the need to thoroughly investigate how fiduciary misuse occurred in the first place?

  2. 02

    What safeguards could prevent future fiduciary misuse of VA benefits while keeping administrative costs manageable for the department?

  3. 03

    Should the reimbursement process differ for cases where the VA's negligence contributed to the misuse, and if so, how?

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Sponsor · D-VA-11

Gerald E. Connolly

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Introduced 2025-12-12

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-12-12 · President

    Became Public Law No: 119-56.

  2. 2025-12-12 · BecameLaw

    Became Public Law No: 119-56.

  3. 2025-12-12 · President

    Signed by President.

  4. 2025-12-12 · BecameLaw

    Signed by President.

  5. 2025-12-03 · house · Floor

    Presented to President.

  6. 2025-12-03 · President

    Presented to President.

  7. 2025-11-20 · senate · Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

  8. 2025-11-20 · senate · Floor

    Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8400)

  9. 2025-11-20 · Floor

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.

  10. 2025-11-20 · senate · Discharge

    Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.

  11. 2025-11-20 · Committee

    Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.

  12. 2025-05-06 · senate · IntroReferral

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

  13. 2025-05-05 · house · Floor

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

  14. 2025-05-05 · house · Floor

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1817-1818)

  15. 2025-05-05 · Floor

    Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1817-1818: 1)

  16. 2025-05-05 · house · Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1912.

  17. 2025-05-05 · house · Floor

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1817-1819)

  18. 2025-05-05 · house · Floor

    Mr. Bergman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

  19. 2025-03-27 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

  20. 2025-03-06 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  21. 2025-03-06 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  22. 2025-03-06 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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