Ranking Member Takano Highlights House Passage of 14 Veteran-Focused Bills

WASHINGTON— Today, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Ranking Member Mark Takano announced that the House of Representatives passed fourteen bipartisan, veteran-focused bills this week.

This includes three bills led by Democratic Members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs:

• H.R. 4446 – FAST VETS Act, offered by Representative Maxine Dexter (OR-03), would make it easier for veterans to find employment through the VA Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) program, which provides job training and employment-related services to veterans with service-connected disabilities by providing a comprehensive, individualized pathway to overcome employment barriers.

• H.R. 2034 – Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act, offered by Representative Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), would improve the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM scholarship program, created by Congress in 2017 as part of the Forever GI Bill, to better meet student veterans’ needs by allowing students to apply for the scholarship while they are still finishing their undergraduate degrees and removing the requirement that students exhaust all credit hours on their GI Bill benefits.

• H.R. 2721 – Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025, offered by Representative Tim Kennedy (NY-26), would expand access to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) headstones or burial markers for veterans who died before November 1, 1990. Unaware of the benefits they are entitled to, grieving veteran families may miss out on their veteran’s headstone benefits.

Two additional Democratic Member-led bills passed:

• H.R. 1860 – Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act, offered by Representative Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), would require VA to appoint regional breast and gynecologic cancer care coordinators for each Veteran Integrated Services Network to assist veterans by coordinating between VA clinicians and breast and gynecologic cancer community care providers.

• H.R. 2701 – Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act, offered by Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), would establish a program tasked with correcting religious markers on the graves of Jewish-American servicemembers buried overseas in U.S. military cemeteries under markers that misrepresent their faith.

Republican led bills that passed with bipartisan support included:

• H.R. 1107 – Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 led by Representative Steve Womack (AK-03)

• H.R. 3400 – TRAVEL Act of 2025 led by Representative Kimberlyn King-Hinds (CNMI)

• H.R. 3767 – HPSP Improvement Act of 2025 led by Representative David Valadao (CA-22)

• H.R. 3854 – Modernizing All Veterans and Survivors Claims Processing Act led by Representative David Valadao (CA-22)

• H.R. 2334 – Servicemember Residence Protection Act led by Representative Brian Mast (FL-21)

• H.R. 3579 – Veterans Readiness and Employment Program Integrity Act led by Representative Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06)

• H.R. 3951 – Rural Veteran Improved Access to Benefits Act of 2025 led by Representative Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06)

• H.R. 3494 – VA Hospital Inventory Management System Authorization Act led by Representative Jen Kiggans (VA-02)

• H.R. 3481 – Delivering Digitally to Our Veterans Act of 2025 led by Representative Tom Barrett (MI-07)

These bills will await final passage in the Senate.

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