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HR2201Passed House

Improving VA Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims Act

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-03-18
Introduced
5
Cosponsors
HR
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Type

Sponsor

Young Kim
Young Kim
Republican · CA · Representative
Votes with party: 97.6% (549 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/K000397

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (5)

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

  • Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6)Original· 2025-03-18
  • Don Bacon (R-NE-2)Original· 2025-03-18
  • Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13)Original· 2025-03-18
  • Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS)· 2025-03-24
  • Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)· 2025-05-08

Latest Action

The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →

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

2025-05-20

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on Veterans' AffairsReferred To · 2025-05-20
  • House Committee on Veterans' AffairsReported By · 2025-05-17

Previously

  • Veterans' Affairs CommitteeReferred To · 2025-05-20
  • Veterans' Affairs CommitteeReported By · 2025-05-17
  • House Committee on Veterans' AffairsMarkup By · 2025-05-06
  • Veterans' Affairs CommitteeMarkup By · 2025-05-06
  • Veterans' Affairs CommitteeReferred To · 2025-03-18

Plain-English Summary

Improving VA Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims Act This bill expands training requirements and assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in relation to claims for covered mental health conditions (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder) based on military sexual trauma. Specifically, the bill requires VA employees who process claims for covered mental health conditions based on military sexual trauma to receive annual sensitivity training. Such training must be updated by the VA at least once a year. The VA must annually report on (1) the training it provides, and (2) any plans to expand and update such training. In providing assistance with such claims related to military sexual trauma, the VA must obtain the service medical record of the claimant and, if there is not credible supporting evidence of a military sexual trauma in the record, obtain the service personnel record of the claimant. Additionally, the VA must report to Congress regarding (1) sensitivity training required for health care professionals (including schedulers) who are contracted under a VA pilot program to perform examinations of veterans who make claims related to military sexual trauma, and (2) the VA’s plan to improve such training and ensure veterans are not retraumatized during such an examination.

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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