TRAVEL Act of 2025

Sponsor: Kimberlyn King-Hinds (Republican-MP)May 14, 2025

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Introduced

In Committee

Passed One Chamber

Passed Both Chambers

Signed into Law

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Lets VA send doctors to U.S. territories and extends a deadline for some veteran pension limits.

The TRAVEL Act of 2025 would let the VA send its doctors to U.S. territories for up to a year. This would improve healthcare for veterans living there. It would also extend a deadline for some veteran pension limits from November 30, 2031, to December 31, 2032.

What Would Change

Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) does not have specific authority to send its doctors to temporarily work in U.S. territories. Also, certain limits on some veterans' pension payments are set to expire on November 30, 2031. If this bill passes, the VA would be able to send doctors to territories for up to a year, and those pension limits would continue until December 31, 2032.

Key Provisions

Extends the deadline for certain limits on some veterans' pension payments from November 30, 2031, to December 31, 2032.
Lets the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) send its doctors to U.S. territories like Puerto Rico and Guam for temporary assignments of up to one year.
Requires these traveling VA physicians to work with local, non-VA medical providers to ensure veterans get good care.
Requires the VA to offer a relocation or retention bonus to doctors who serve as traveling physicians.