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VA Employee Fairness Act of 2025

To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration.

Introduced May 7, 2025

Latest action (May 29, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

Referred to
Veterans' Affairs Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Labor & Wages

Summary

This bill modifies federal law governing collective bargaining for Veterans Health Administration employees. It removes three subsections from title 38 of the United States Code and elevates a remaining subsection in their place. The amendments do not affect the Secretary of Veterans Affairs' existing authorities over employee incentive pay, expedited hiring, or related matters.

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)
111 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Mark Takano’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • NULL $20,150
  • PAFCO $13,200
  • VETERANS UNITED HOME LOANS $11,600
  • ESRI $7,910
  • THOMAS SAFRAN & ASSOCIATES $7,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Mark Takano → · Outside spending →

Actions (3)
  1. May 29, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. · house
  2. May 7, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
  3. May 7, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1650 — VA Employee Fairness Act of 2025 · Introduced May 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 95%
  • S 124 — Restore VA Accountability Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 3132 — CHOICE for Veterans Act of 2025 · Introduced May 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 932 — Protecting VA Employees Act · Introduced Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • HR 1872 — Fairness in Veterans’ Education Act · Introduced Apr 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HR 3835 — Veterans Appeals Efficiency Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · May 7, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 7, 2025

Mr. Takano (for himself, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Gomez, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Waters, Mr. Peters, Mr. Vargas, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Norton, Mr. Frost, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Mrs. McBath, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Budzinski, Mr. Mrvan, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Keating, Mr. Hoyer, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Conaway, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Amo, Mr. Doggett, Ms. McClellan, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Foster, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Subramanyam, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Golden of Maine, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Craig, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Chu, Mr. Horsford, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Stevens, Ms. Hoyle of Oregon, Ms. Omar, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Ms. Titus, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Brown, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Bishop, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Gottheimer, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Dexter, Ms. McBride, Ms. Goodlander, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Levin, Ms. Salinas, Mr. Pappas, and Ms. Meng) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

A BILL

To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration.

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 “VA Employee Fairness Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITIES ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING OF EMPLOYEES OF THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION.

(a) In General.—Section 7422 of title 38, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by striking subsections (b), (c), and (d); and

(2) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (b).

(b) Rule of Construction.—The amendments made by subsection (a) may not be construed to affect the authorities of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs regarding incentive pay and expedited hiring under section 706 of title 38, United States Code, or other similar provisions of law. <all>

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