HR 3767
Passed a chamber
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer scholarship program participants a full-time clinical job contract within 90 days of finishing training or earning required licensure, and bans smoking and vaping at VA health facilities.
Official title: Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
05-JUN-2025
Referred
05-JUN-2025
Approved by committee
23-JUL-2025
Reported
10-SEP-2025
On the calendar
10-SEP-2025
Passed
15-SEP-2025
Senate
Received
16-SEP-2025
- Requires VA to give Health Professionals Scholarship Program participants a clinical practice contract at a highest-need facility within 90 days after the later of course completion or obtaining required licensure
- Requires those contracts to include a competitive salary and benefits package
- Prohibits smoking by anyone on the premises of Veterans Health Administration facilities, including cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and electronic nicotine delivery systems such as e-cigarettes and vape pens
- Requires VA to report to the Veterans' Affairs committees every 180 days on the scholarship hiring provision through September 30, 2027, and repeals section 526 of the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992, which had been a note to 38 U.S.C. 1715
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (05-JUN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 15-SEP-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Veterans' Affairs Committee (House)
- Health Subcommittee
- Veterans' Affairs Committee (Senate)
Armed Forces and National Security
■ 3 D
3 Democrats