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GAMES Act

To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand eligibility of veterans for a certain military adaptive sports program.

Introduced Mar 19, 2026

Latest action (Mar 19, 2026) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Referred to
Veterans' Affairs Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Defense

Summary

The bill amends federal law to expand eligibility for veterans to participate in military adaptive sports programs. Specifically, it removes a time restriction that limited veteran participation to one year following their separation from service, allowing veterans to access these adaptive sports programs for a longer period or without a defined time limit.

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)
1 cosponsor

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 19, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · senate
  2. Mar 19, 2026 Introduced in Senate

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.

  • HR 3219 — GAMES Act · Introduced May 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 81%
  • S 3138 — Veterans SPORT Act · Introduced Mar 18, 2026 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 1971 — Veterans SPORT Act · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 913 — Streamlining Aviation for Eligible Veterans Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 5149 — Protecting Girls’ Sports for Military Kids Act · Introduced Sep 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 968 — Time of Service Act · Introduced Mar 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 19, 2026

Mr. Banks (for himself and Mr. Gallego) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

A BILL

To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand eligibility of veterans for a certain military adaptive sports program.

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 “Gaining Meaningful Experiences from Service Act” or the “GAMES Act”.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBILITY OF VETERANS FOR CERTAIN MILITARY ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM.

Section 2564a of title 10, United States Code, is amended, in subsection (a)(1)(B), in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking “, during the one-year period following the veteran’s date of separation,”. <all>

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