HR 2201
Passed a chamber
Requires annual sensitivity and claims training for all VA employees who handle military sexual trauma claims, requires VA to obtain claimants' service personnel and medical records for those claims, and requires reports to Congress on training and contracted examiners.
Official title: Improving VA Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
18-MAR-2025
Referred
18-MAR-2025
Approved by committee
06-MAY-2025
Reported
17-MAY-2025
On the calendar
17-MAY-2025
Passed
19-MAY-2025
Senate
Received
20-MAY-2025
- Requires each VA employee who processes, communicates about evidence for, or decides a military sexual trauma claim to receive annual sensitivity training and claims training.
- Requires training to fit each employee's experience with such claims and to be updated at least once a year.
- Adds the claimant's service personnel record and service medical record to the records VA must obtain for these claims.
- Requires VA to report within 90 days on past training, its plans for the new training rules, and its plans to improve sensitivity training for contracted health care examiners.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (18-MAR-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 19-MAY-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Veterans' Affairs Committee (House)
- Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee
- Veterans' Affairs Committee (Senate)
Armed Forces and National Security
■ 3 D■ 2 R
3 Democrats
2 Republicans