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Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025

Introduced Feb 14, 2025

Latest action (May 20, 2025) Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Referred to
Veterans' Affairs Committee Veterans' Affairs Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Legislative subjects (3)
Disability and health-based discriminationMotor vehiclesVeterans' medical care

Summary

This bill clarifies that the Department of Veterans Affairs' definition of "medical services" includes medically necessary automobile adaptations for veterans, such as ramps, wheelchair lifts, raised roofs, lowered floors, wheelchair tiedowns, adapted seating, and accessibility modifications. By explicitly listing these vehicle adaptations as covered medical services, the bill ensures that eligible veterans can receive VA support for modifications that enable them to drive or ride as passengers safely. The bill also extends the deadline for certain pension payment limits from November 30, 2031 to September 30, 2032.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
7 cosponsors

Actions (16)
  1. May 20, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · senate
  2. May 19, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  3. May 19, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2132) · house
  4. May 19, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2132)
  5. May 19, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1364. · house
  6. May 19, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2132-2133) · house
  7. May 19, 2025 Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. · house
  8. May 15, 2025 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 69. · house
  9. May 15, 2025 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-96. · house
  10. May 6, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  11. Apr 9, 2025 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote. · house
  12. Apr 9, 2025 Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  13. Mar 11, 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held · house
  14. Mar 11, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity. · house
  15. Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
  16. Feb 14, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 3838 — Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 5304 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 4249 — Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 8772 — Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025 (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 4638 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 1787 — Dolores River National Conservation Area and Special Management Area Act (shares 1 subject)
  • HR 9770 — Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027 (shares 1 subject)
  • HR 5362 — To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic". (shares 1 subject)

Text versions (4)
  • Referred in Senate · May 20, 2025
  • Engrossed in House · May 19, 2025
  • Reported in House · May 15, 2025
  • Introduced in House · Feb 14, 2025

Committee action

What happened to this bill in committee — the meetings where it was considered and every recorded vote taken on it.

Meetings where this bill was on the agenda

Full text

AN ACT

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide clarification regarding the inclusion of medically necessary automobile adaptations in Department of Veterans Affairs definition of “medical services”.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025” or the “ASSIST Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION REGARDING INCLUSION OF MEDICALLY NECESSARY AUTOMOBILE ADAPTATIONS IN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS DEFINITION OF “MEDICAL SERVICES”.

Section 1701(6)(I) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

“(I) The provision of any medically necessary automobile adaptations for driver or passenger use, including—

“(i) ramp and kneeling systems;

“(ii) raised doors or lowered floors;

“(iii) raised roofs;

“(iv) air conditioning;

“(v) occupied and unoccupied mobility lifts;

“(vi) ingress or egress accessibility modifications;

“(vii) wheelchair tiedowns; and

“(viii) adapted seating.”.

SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN LIMITS ON PAYMENTS OF PENSION.

Section 5503(d)(7) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking “November 30, 2031” and inserting “September 30, 2032”.

Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2025.

Attest:

Clerk. 119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1364

AN ACT

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide clarification regarding the inclusion of medically necessary automobile adaptations in Department of Veterans Affairs definition of “medical services”.

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