# H.R. 980 (119th): Modernizing the Veterans On-Campus Experience Act of 2025

Modernizing the Veterans On-Campus Experience Act of 2025 This bill removes the requirement that educational and vocational counseling services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on campus at institutions of higher learning must be provided by VA counselors.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: administrative_staffing. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: education. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: employment. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans_services. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 49: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill concerns how VA educational counseling is staffed on campuses. It plausibly serves veterans through flexibility and access, but it also raises a legitimate concern about whether service quality and accountability for VA-provided care are preserved. The metadata shows an ordinary administrative dispute with no direct advancement or restraint of a named moral harm.
Theological note: Scripture calls rulers to care for those who have borne the cost of national service, and to do so justly and faithfully. Whether veterans receive good counseling depends on competence, accessibility, and honest stewardship, which the bill's staffing change bears on only indirectly. The measure raises a prudential question about how best to serve veterans, not a direct moral question.

## Recorded votes

Roll 49: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 402 · Nay 2 · Other 27.

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