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H.R. 3400 (119th): The Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025

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. The VA must provide a relocation or retention bonus to traveling physicians.

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Rankings updated October 26, 2026, 11:44 AM ET · Votes through September 30, 2026
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Recorded summary

This House bill, the TRAVEL Act of 2025, authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to assign a Veterans Health Administration physician as a traveling physician for up to one year. The physician would provide care to veterans at VA facilities in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other U.S. territory or possession. Traveling physicians must coordinate with non-VA providers when necessary, and the VA must provide a relocation or retention bonus to them.

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Theological note: The measure concerns the access of veterans in U.S. territories to competent medical care, which relates to the duty of justice toward those who have served and to the ordinary care of neighbors in need. It raises no direct moral question about killing, sexual corruption, or the suppression of truth, and its relevance lies mainly in the stewardship of public resources for the care of veterans.

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Roll 266 · 15-Sep-2025 7:03 PM · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · Passed

Yea 371 · Nay 21 · Other 40

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