TRAVEL Act of 2025
The summary
What this bill does
The Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assign a physician who has been appointed in the Veterans Health Administration to serve as a traveling physician for a period of not more than one year. Such physician must provide health care to veterans at VA facilities located in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
Traveling physicians must coordinate with non-VA providers when necessary to ensure high quality and coordinated care for veterans receiving hospital care and medical services.
The VA must provide a relocation or retention bonus to traveling physicians.
Legislative timeline
From introduction
May 14, 2025
Introduced & referred to committee
Congressional support
Sponsors & Cosponsors
U.S. Representative - MP · R-MP
12 cosponsors
U.S. Representative - GU · R-GU
U.S. Representative - AS · R-AS
U.S. Representative - MI District 12 · D-MI
U.S. Representative - HI District 2 · D-HI
Member of Congress · D-WA
Member of Congress · D-DE
U.S. Representative - VA District 2 · R-VA
U.S. Representative - IL District 7 · D-IL
U.S. Representative - VA District 7 · D-VA
U.S. Representative - PR · D-PR
U.S. Representative - NV District 3 · D-NV
U.S. Representative - HI District 1 · D-HI
Roll-call vote
The vote, by member
The vote, by member
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Bill Metadata
| Congress | 119 |
| Bill Type | HR |
| Bill Number | 3400 |
| Origin Chamber | House |
| Current Status | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. |
| Policy Area | Armed Forces and National Security |
| Primary Committee | Not assigned |
| Introduced | May 14, 2025 |
| Latest Action | September 16, 2025 |
| Cosponsors | 12 · House vote — · — views |