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HR1107Passed House

Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-02-06
Introduced
28
Cosponsors
HR
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Type

Sponsor

Steve Womack
Steve Womack
Republican · AR · Representative
Votes with party: 96.8% (597 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/W000809

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (28)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

28 cosponsors on record at Congress.gov. The named list is syncing into Govwatch and will appear here shortly — view on Congress.gov in the meantime.

Latest Action

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

2025-09-16

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on Veterans' AffairsReferred To · 2025-09-16
  • House Committee on Veterans' AffairsReported By · 2025-07-29

Previously

  • House Committee on Veterans' AffairsMarkup By · 2025-05-06
  • House Committee on Veterans' AffairsReferred To · 2025-02-06

Plain-English Summary

Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 This bill permanently authorizes certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care professionals to use telemedicine to deliver, distribute, or dispense controlled substances that are prescription drugs to patients who are eligible for VA health care, regardless of whether the health care professional has conducted an in-person medical examination. The health care professional must be (1) authorized to prescribe the basic class of such controlled substance under an active, current, full, and unrestricted license or certification; (2) acting in the usual course of professional practice; and (3) delivering, distributing, or dispensing the substance for a legitimate medical purpose.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Armed Forces and National Security
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Open text viewRead on Congress.gov

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