Cosponsor
Sign in

S 1204 · introduced · niche

Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act

What this bill does

  • The bill expands a Department of Labor career services program to help spouses of deceased and disabled veterans find employment.
  • Gold Star spouses and family members of service members missing in action or with service-connected disabilities become newly eligible.
  • The expansion uses existing Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program resources with no specified new funding mechanism or implementation deadline.

Generated by claude-haiku-4-5

Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

  1. 01

    How should the Department of Labor prioritize expanding career services to Gold Star spouses when the bill specifies no new funding?

  2. 02

    Which groups of military families currently receive similar employment assistance, and how might this expansion affect their service levels?

  3. 03

    What specific employment barriers do spouses of deceased or disabled service members face that existing programs do not address?

Cosponsor writes these to seed civic discussion — they aren't user posts. Sign in to reply.

Sponsor · D-NH

Margaret Wood Hassan

Citizen cosponsors

0

In Congress

8/ 100

Senators cosponsoring

Introduced 2025-12-19

Joining the bill

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-12-19 · house · Floor

    Held at the desk.

  2. 2025-12-19 · house · Floor

    Received in the House.

  3. 2025-12-19 · senate · Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

  4. 2025-12-18 · senate · Floor

    Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8895; text: CR S8895)

  5. 2025-12-18 · Floor

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

  6. 2025-12-18 · senate · Discharge

    Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.

  7. 2025-12-18 · Committee

    Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.

  8. 2025-03-31 · senate · IntroReferral

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

  9. 2025-03-31 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

Congress.gov ↗

Citizen comments

Sign in to comment on this bill.

No comments yet — be the first.