STRIVE Act of 2025
Latest action · Nov 7, 2025 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 323.
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 6, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Stop Troubling Retroactive Invoices for Veteran Expenses Act of 2025 or the STRIVE Act of 2025
This bill prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), under certain conditions, from collecting copayments from a veteran for hospital care or medical services more than two years after the veteran receives the care or service.
Specifically, the VA is prohibited from collecting any copayment from a veteran for hospital care or medical services after the end of the two-year period beginning on the date the veteran received the care or service if the VA did not provide the veteran with timely notice of the copay or provide notice that the aggregate copay amount exceeds $2,000, annually adjusted for inflation.
The VA may waive the requirement for a veteran to make any copayment for hospital care or medical services whenever it determines the waiver is appropriate, regardless of whether a veteran submits a request for a waiver.
Finally, the bill extends the limitation on pension amounts for certain hospitalized or institutionalized veterans through February 29, 2032. Currently, the limitation expires on November 30, 2031.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 9, 2025 to Nov 7, 2025.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Jun 9, 2025 | |
| D-TX | Joaquin Castro | Oct 6, 2025 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Oct 8, 2025 | |
| D-NC | Deborah K. Ross | Oct 21, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Delia C. Ramirez | Oct 21, 2025 | |
| D-MN | Angie Craig | Oct 24, 2025 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Nov 7, 2025 | |
| D-AL | Shomari Figures | Nov 7, 2025 |
Committees 1
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 6, 2025Markup Jul 23, 2025Reported Nov 7, 2025 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 7, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-371.
- Nov 7, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 323.
- Jul 23, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jul 23, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Jun 6, 2025Introduced in House
- Jun 6, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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
- Oct 23, 2025H.R. 3812, Stop Troubling Retroactive Invoices for Veterans Expenses 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. 97, June 6, 2025, page H2534.
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. 119-25 | LEGISLATIVE HEARING95 pages | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Jun 11, 2025 |
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the collection of a health care copayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from a veteran under certain conditions attributable to a failure of the Department of Veterans Affairs to process certain information within applicable timeliness standards, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- STRIVE Act of 2025
- Stop Troubling Retroactive Invoices for Veteran Expenses Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- STRIVE Act of 2025
- Stop Troubling Retroactive Invoices for Veteran Expenses Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 7, 2025Reported in House
- Jun 6, 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.
