Justice for Vaccine Injured Veterans Act of 2025
Latest action · Mar 27, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial 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 27, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Justice for Vaccine Injured Veterans Act of 2025
This bill establishes a presumption of service-connection for certain conditions that become manifest in a member of the Armed Forces who received a COVID-19 vaccine under orders any time from August 24, 2021, through January 10, 2023. Under a presumption of service-connection, specific conditions diagnosed in certain veterans are presumed to have been caused by the circumstances of their military service. Health care benefits and disability compensation may then be awarded.
Specifically, the bill establishes a presumption of service-connection, regardless of whether there is a record of evidence of the condition during a servicemember's period of service, for myocarditis, pericarditis, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and any other condition the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) determines is warranted based on a positive association with the COVID-19 vaccine. Under the bill, if the VA determines an additional condition should be specified, it must submit a notice of such determination to Congress.
The VA must also report to Congress every 60 days for four years regarding claims for compensation related to a condition associated with the COVID-19 vaccine. Such reports must be made publicly available.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 27, 2025 to Mar 3, 2025, with 6 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-IL | Mary E. Miller | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-TX | Pat Fallon | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-AZ | Paul A. Gosar | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-TX | Randy K. Weber, Sr. | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-KY | Thomas Massie | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-TX | Troy E. Nehls | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-FL | Anna Paulina Luna | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-FL | W. Gregory Steube | Mar 3, 2025 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
- Feb 27, 2025Introduced in House
- Feb 27, 2025Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
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- Feb 27, 2025Introduced in House
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