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Enhancing Faith-Based Support for Veterans Act of 2025
To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit the voluntary transmission of patient contact information to certain religious or faith-based organizations by chaplains employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends veterans benefits law to permit Department of Veterans Affairs chaplains to share patient contact information with outside religious or faith-based organizations. The sharing can only occur if a chaplain has conducted a spiritual assessment on the patient and the patient voluntarily agrees to have their information shared. The spiritual assessment is defined as an evaluation conducted by a VA chaplain to gather spiritual information and inform the patient's medical treatment plan. This provision allows VA chaplains to connect veterans with religious or faith-based support services of the veteran's choosing.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Self, Keith [R-TX-3] (R-TX)
1 cosponsor
Actions (2)
- Oct 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
- Oct 14, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 14, 2025
Mr. Self (for himself and Mr. Ciscomani) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit the voluntary transmission of patient contact information to certain religious or faith-based organizations by chaplains employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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 “Enhancing Faith-Based Support for Veterans Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. VOLUNTARY TRANSMISSION OF PATIENT CONTACT INFORMATION TO CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS CHAPLAINS.
Subchapter III of chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section (and conforming the table of sections at the beginning of such chapter accordingly): “Sec. 1730D. Voluntary transmission by Department chaplains of patient contact information to certain religious or faith-based organizations
“(a) In General.—With respect to a patient on whom a chaplain employed by the Department has conducted a spiritual assessment, such chaplain may, at the election of the patient, transmit the contact information of such patient to a non-Department religious or faith- based organization specified by such patient.
“(b) Spiritual Assessment Defined.—In this section, the term ‘spiritual assessment’ means an evaluation of a patient entitled to receive medical treatment under this chapter by a chaplain employed by the Department to—
“(1) gather spiritual information about such patient; and
“(2) inform the medical treatment plan of such patient, if applicable.”. <all>
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