Bills · 118th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security

Veterans' COLA Act of 2023

Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent — no individual positions were recorded.

Official summary (CRS)

Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2023 or the Veterans' COLA Act of 2023

This act requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase the amounts payable for wartime disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. Specifically, the VA must increase the amounts by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase in benefits for Social Security recipients that is effective on December 1, 2023. The bill requires the VA to publish the amounts payable, as increased, in the Federal Register.

The VA is authorized to make a similar adjustment to the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who have not received compensation for service-connected disability or death.

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Sponsor
Sen. Jon Tester ( Democrat · MT)

Cosponsors
12

Introduced
3/14/23

Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security

Status

3/14/23Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

3/14/23Introduced in Senate

3/30/23Held at the desk.

3/30/23Received in the House.

3/30/23Message on Senate action sent to the House.

3/30/23Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1066-1067; text: CR S1066)

3/30/23Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1066-1067; text: CR S1066)

3/30/23Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.

5/22/23Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

5/22/23On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2479)

5/22/23Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2479)

5/22/23DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 777.

5/22/23Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2479-2481)

5/22/23Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

6/7/23Presented to President.

6/14/23Became Public Law No: 118-6.

6/14/23Signed by President.