Bills · 119th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security

TRAVEL Act of 2025

Also known as Territorial Response and Access to Veterans’ Essential Lifecare Act

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Roll calls on this bill

Votes on passage
HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · 9/15/25Suspension of the rulesA fast-track House procedure, usually for measures expected to have broad support. Debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered, and it needs a two-thirds vote of members voting — not a simple majority. A yes vote passes the bill. “As amended” means changes written into the motion itself are included.Rules of the House, Rule XV, clause 1 ↗
Passed
  • Democratic195 Yea · 0 Nay · 18 Not voting
  • Republican176 Yea · 21 Nay · 22 Not voting
  • Independent / Other0 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
Official summary (CRS)

The Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025

This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assign a physician who has been appointed in the Veterans Health Administration to serve as a traveling physician for a period of not more than one year. Such physician must provide health care to veterans at VA facilities located in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.

Traveling physicians must coordinate with non-VA providers when necessary to ensure high quality and coordinated care for veterans receiving hospital care and medical services.

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Sponsor
Rep. Kimberlyn King-Hinds ( Republican · MP)
Cosponsors
12
Introduced
5/14/25
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Status
5/14/25Introduced in House
5/14/25Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
6/6/25Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
6/12/25Subcommittee Hearings Held
7/3/25Subcommittee on Health Discharged
7/23/25Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
7/23/25Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
9/10/25Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-263.
9/10/25Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.
9/15/25Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
9/15/25Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4284)
9/15/25DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3400.
9/15/25At 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.
9/15/25Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4300)
9/15/25Passed/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)
9/15/25On 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)
9/15/25Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
9/16/25Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.