Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
Latest action · Sep 16, 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.
- IntroducedJun 5, 2025
- Passed HouseSep 15, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025 or the HPSP Improvement Act of 2025
This bill requires, through FY2027, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure a participant in the Health Professionals Scholarship program receives a contract for employment within 90 days of the completion of their courses. The program provides financial assistance to students in a direct or indirect health care services discipline in exchange for service in the Veterans Health Administration.
The contract must offer employment in the full-time clinical practice of the participant’s profession at a VA facility with the highest need.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 5, 2025 to Jul 23, 2025; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Nikki Budzinski | Original | Jun 5, 2025 |
| D-NC | Donald G. Davis | Jun 10, 2025 | |
| D-VA | Eugene Simon Vindman | Jul 23, 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 Jun 5, 2025Markup Jul 23, 2025Reported Sep 10, 2025 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jun 17, 2025 | |
| Senate | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Sep 16, 2025 |
Actions 13
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Sep 15, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4285)
- Sep 15, 2025Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 15, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4285)
- Sep 15, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3767.
- Sep 15, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 10, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-264.
- Sep 10, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 220.
- Jul 23, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jul 23, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Jun 17, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 5, 2025Introduced in House
- Jun 5, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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 H4285, H4286Text printed H4285 | Abraham J. Hamadeh R-AZ, Mark Takano D-CA, Mike Bost R-IL | Sep 15, 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
- Jul 31, 2025H.R. 3767, Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 23, 2025
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 96, June 5, 2025, page H2507.
Printed hearings 1
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. 119-26 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING113 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Jun 12, 2025 |
Titles 7
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a time frame for the employment in the Department of Veterans Affairs of participants in the Health Professionals Scholarship Program, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- HPSP Improvement Act of 2025
- Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
- Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a time frame for the employment in the Department of Veterans Affairs of participants in the Health Professionals Scholarship Program, and for other purposes.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2025Referred in Senate
- Sep 15, 2025Engrossed in House
- Sep 10, 2025Reported in House
- Jun 5, 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.
