HR 3400
Passed a chamber
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assign VA physicians to temporarily serve as traveling physicians in U.S. territories, and extends a limit on pension payments to December 31, 2032.
Official title: TRAVEL Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
14-MAY-2025
Referred
14-MAY-2025
Approved by committee
23-JUL-2025
Reported
10-SEP-2025
On the calendar
10-SEP-2025
Passed
15-SEP-2025
Senate
Received
16-SEP-2025
- Lets the VA Secretary assign physicians for up to one year at a time to serve veterans in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other U.S. territories.
- Requires traveling physicians to coordinate care with non-VA medical providers to the extent practicable and necessary.
- Requires the VA to pay traveling physicians a relocation or retention bonus, in addition to their regular pay.
- Extends the pension payment limits in section 5503(d)(7) of title 38 from November 30, 2031 to December 31, 2032.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (14-MAY-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 15-SEP-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Veterans' Affairs Committee (House)
- Health Subcommittee
- Veterans' Affairs Committee (Senate)
Armed Forces and National Security
■ 9 D■ 3 R
9 Democrats
3 Republicans