Legislative Activity

The Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025 amends the Veterans Community Care Program to officially recognize providers working through state-compliant nurse registries. This ensures that services delivered by registered nurses, CNAs, and home health aides contracted via these registries are eligible for VA community care payments. The bill updates existing law to broaden the pool of recognized homecare providers available to veterans.

The Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025 expands options for veterans accessing care through the Veterans Community Care Program. This bill specifically recognizes state-licensed nurse registries as eligible providers of covered services. By including nurse registries, the Act broadens the network of organizations that can furnish necessary home health and supportive services to eligible veterans.

The Veterans Equal Access Act allows Veterans Affairs health providers to discuss medical marijuana with veterans and provide recommendations or opinions regarding participation in state marijuana programs. This includes completing necessary forms for veterans in states, districts, territories, and recognized Indian Tribes with existing medical marijuana programs. This ensures veterans have access to informed medical advice from their VA healthcare providers regarding medical marijuana options.

This bill allocates \$24,376,741 from the House of Representatives' funds to cover the expenses of the Foreign Affairs Committee during the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, including staff salaries. It sets spending limits for two separate sessions and requires that all payments be authorized through vouchers signed by the Committee Chairman and approved by the House Administration Committee. The funds provided must be spent in accordance with the regulations set by the House Administration Committee.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund Water Amendments Act of 2025 amends Title 54 of the U.S. Code to include water quality improvement projects in state outdoor recreation plans. It authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to states for water quality projects aimed at restoring impaired bodies of water by improving natural hydrological systems to reduce nutrient loads. This act ensures collaboration with the EPA Administrator and specifies that it does not expand federal authority over nonnavigable waters or authorize the Secretary to regulate water quality projects.

The "No Tax Breaks for Radical Corporate Activism Act" prohibits employers from deducting expenses related to reimbursing employees for abortion-related travel or gender transition procedures for their minor children. Gender transition procedures are defined as medical or surgical services that alter or remove physical traits of one's biological sex, with exceptions for treatments of verifiable disorders of sex development or treatments for conditions caused by gender transition procedures. This applies to taxable years beginning after the law is enacted.

This bill designates the United States Postal Service facility located at 290 NW Peacock Boulevard in Port St. Lucie, Florida, as the "Trooper Zachary Fink Post Office Building." Any reference to this facility will now refer to it as the "Trooper Zachary Fink Post Office Building."