Rural Veterinary Workforce Act
Latest action · Mar 27, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
- IntroducedMar 27, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Rural Veterinary Workforce Act
This bill excludes from gross income, for federal tax purposes, payments received pursuant to the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program or any state loan repayment or loan forgiveness program that is intended to provide for increased access to veterinary services. (The Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program is a Department of Agriculture program that repays a portion of the student loans of veterinarians who provide short-term services in designated veterinary shortage areas.)
Cosponsors 65
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 27, 2025 to Oct 1, 2026; 13 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| R-MN | Brad Finstad | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| D-PA | Chrissy Houlahan | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| R-NC | David Rouzer | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| D-NC | Donald G. Davis | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| D-NM | Melanie A. Stansbury | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| R-MN | Michelle Fischbach | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| R-OH | Mike Carey | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| D-IL | Nikki Budzinski | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| R-IA | Randy Feenstra | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| R-MS | Trent Kelly | Original | Mar 27, 2025 |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Apr 2, 2025 | |
| D-AL | Terri A. Sewell | Apr 2, 2025 | |
| R-KS | Tracey Mann | Apr 9, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Josh Riley | Apr 14, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Apr 21, 2025 | |
| D-KS | Sharice Davids | Apr 24, 2025 | |
| R-WV | Carol D. Miller | Apr 29, 2025 | |
| R-PA | Daniel Meuser | May 29, 2025 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Jun 4, 2025 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Jun 12, 2025 | |
| R-WI | Derrick Van Orden | Jun 26, 2025 | |
| D-NM | Gabe Vasquez | Jun 26, 2025 | |
| D-WA | Marie Gluesenkamp Perez | Jun 26, 2025 | |
| R-MI | Jack Bergman | Jul 22, 2025 | |
| D-PR | Pablo José Hernández | Jul 22, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Raja Krishnamoorthi | Jul 22, 2025 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Jul 22, 2025 | |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | Jul 22, 2025 | |
| D-VA | Eugene Simon Vindman | Aug 8, 2025 | |
| R-IN | James R. Baird | Aug 8, 2025 | |
| R-ID | Michael K. Simpson | Aug 8, 2025 | |
| D-MD | April McClain Delaney | Aug 22, 2025 | |
| D-NH | Maggie Goodlander | Aug 22, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Adam Gray | Aug 26, 2025 | |
| R-MI | John R. Moolenaar | Sep 18, 2025 | |
| R-TX | Ronny Jackson | Sep 19, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Timothy M. Kennedy | Sep 30, 2025 | |
| D-RI | Seth Magaziner | Oct 8, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Eric Sorensen | Oct 14, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Oct 14, 2025 | |
| R-KS | Derek Schmidt | Oct 17, 2025 | |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Oct 31, 2025 | |
| R-IN | Rudy Yakym III | Nov 17, 2025 | |
| R-IN | Jefferson Shreve | Nov 19, 2025 | |
| R-WI | Tony Wied | Nov 20, 2025 | |
| D-DE | Sarah McBride | Dec 9, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Ami Bera | Dec 17, 2025 | |
| D-MI | Kristen McDonald Rivet | Dec 17, 2025 | |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Jan 7, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Jan 20, 2026 | |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Jan 22, 2026 | |
| D-NC | Deborah K. Ross | Feb 10, 2026 | |
| R-NY | Nicholas A. Langworthy | Feb 24, 2026 | |
| R-OR | Cliff Bentz | Mar 12, 2026 | |
| R-MO | Mark Alford | Mar 12, 2026 | |
| R-VA | Robert J. Wittman | Apr 14, 2026 | |
| R-TX | Jake Ellzey | Jun 24, 2026 | |
| R-TX | Randy K. Weber, Sr. | Jun 30, 2026 | |
| D-AZ | Adelita S. Grijalva | Aug 13, 2026 | |
| D-NV | Susie Lee | Aug 13, 2026 | |
| R-OK | Tom Cole | Aug 31, 2026 | |
| R-FL | John H. Rutherford | Oct 1, 2026 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Mar 27, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2025Introduced in House
- Mar 27, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 56, March 27, 2025, page H1338.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1163 | Rural Veterinary Workforce Act | Identical bill | Mar 27, 2025 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an exclusion for assistance provided to participants in certain veterinary student loan repayment or forgiveness programs.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Rural Veterinary Workforce Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 27, 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.
