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HR 3400 · in committee · major

TRAVEL Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The VA can assign doctors to serve as traveling physicians for up to one year in U.S. territories.
  • Veterans in American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other territories are affected.
  • The VA must pay relocation or retention bonuses to these traveling physicians.

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    How might one-year physician assignments balance healthcare access for territorial veterans against continuity of care challenges?

  2. 02

    What evidence suggests relocation bonuses would successfully recruit VA doctors to underserved U.S. territories?

  3. 03

    Which territorial veteran populations currently lack adequate VA medical services, and how would traveling physicians address those gaps?

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Kimberlyn King-Hinds

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Introduced 2025-09-16

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-09-16 · senate · IntroReferral

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

  2. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

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

  3. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    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. 2025-09-15 · Floor

    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. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4300)

  6. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    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. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

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

  8. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

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

  9. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

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

  10. 2025-09-10 · house · Calendars

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.

  11. 2025-09-10 · house · Committee

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

  12. 2025-09-10 · Committee

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

  13. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

  14. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  15. 2025-07-03 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee on Health Discharged

  16. 2025-06-12 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

  17. 2025-06-06 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

  18. 2025-05-14 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  19. 2025-05-14 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  20. 2025-05-14 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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