Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in West Haven, Connecticut as the Captain Paul W. 'Bud' Bucha VA Medical Center and treats any federal reference to the facility as a reference to that new name.

Official title: Captain Paul W. Bud Bucha VA Medical Center Act of 2025

Next stop Senate: awaiting action

Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions

House

Introduced 23-JUL-2025

Referred 23-JUL-2025

Passed 15-JUL-2026

Senate

Received 16-JUL-2026

Key points

Designates the VA medical center in West Haven, Connecticut, or any successor location, as the Captain Paul W. 'Bud' Bucha VA Medical Center.
Requires any law, regulation, map, document, or other federal record that refers to the facility to be read as referring to the new name.
Sets out findings on Bucha's Medal of Honor service in Vietnam in 1968, his post-traumatic stress treatment at the West Haven center, and his death there in 2024.

AI-generated from the Placed on Calendar Senate text of 16-JUL-2026 · verify · report an error

Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (23-JUL-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 15-JUL-2026).

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Committee referrals (2)

Veterans' Affairs Committee (House)
Health Subcommittee

Policy area

Armed Forces and National Security

Sponsor Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) Cosponsors · 0

No cosponsors.

congress.gov page Placed on Calendar Senate (16-JUL-2026) Engrossed in House (15-JUL-2026) Introduced in House (23-JUL-2025)