Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025
Latest action · May 20, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 14, 2025
- Passed HouseMay 19, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025 or the ASSIST Act of 2025
This bill expands the definition of medical services for purposes of veterans’ benefits to include additional medically necessary automobile adaptations. Under the bill, the Department of Veterans Affairs may provide funding for ramp and kneeling systems, lowered floors, mobility device lifts, non-articulating trailers, and ingress or egress accessibility modifications.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NH | Maggie Goodlander | Original | Feb 14, 2025 |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Feb 24, 2025 | |
| R-TX | Dan Crenshaw | Feb 24, 2025 | |
| R-CA | David G. Valadao | Feb 25, 2025 | |
| D-NV | Susie Lee | Mar 27, 2025 | |
| D-CO | Jason Crow | May 1, 2025 | |
| D-VA | Eugene Simon Vindman | May 8, 2025 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Feb 14, 2025Markup May 6, 2025Reported May 15, 2025 |
| Economic Opportunity Subcommittee | Referred Mar 11, 2025Hearings Mar 11, 2025Markup Apr 9, 2025Reported Apr 9, 2025 | |
| Senate | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred May 20, 2025 |
Actions 15
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 20, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- May 19, 2025Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- May 19, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2132-2133)
- May 19, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1364.
- May 19, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2132)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H2132, H2133Text printed H2132 | Maggie Goodlander D-NH, Mark Takano D-CA, Mike Bost R-IL, Tom Barrett R-MI | May 19, 2025 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- May 14, 2025H.R. 1364, Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 6, 2025
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 31, February 14, 2025, page H715.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 119-23 | PUSHING VA FORWARD: REVIEW OF VA'S ADAPTIVE PROGRAMS FOR DISABLED VETERANS70 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | May 21, 2025 |
| Serial No. 119-9 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON . H.R. 913; H.R. 980; H.R. 1364; H.R. 1458; H.R. 1960; H.R. 1527; H.R. 1793; H.R. 1872; H.R. 1815; H.R. 1814; H.R. 1957; H.R. 1423; AND H.R. 1803126 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Mar 11, 2025 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1726 | ASSIST Act of 2025 | Identical bill | Mar 18, 2026 |
Titles 8
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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".
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025
- ASSIST Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- ASSIST Act of 2025
- Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025
- Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
- 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".
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 20, 2025Referred in Senate
- May 19, 2025Engrossed in House
- May 15, 2025Reported in House
- Feb 14, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
