HR 980
Passed a chamber
Removes a requirement that certain VA employees provide on-campus education and job counseling, allows flight training in veterans' rehabilitation programs, requires faster decisions on program extension requests, and extends a pension payment limit by six months.
Official title: Veterans Readiness and Employment Improvement Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
05-FEB-2025
Referred
05-FEB-2025
Reported
15-AUG-2025
On the calendar
15-AUG-2025
Passed
02-FEB-2026
Senate
Received
03-FEB-2026
- Removes the requirement that certain Department of Veterans Affairs employees provide on-campus educational and vocational counseling.
- Lets the Secretary approve rehabilitation programs that include flight training not given for credit toward a standard college degree, for programs approved on or after August 1, 2026.
- Requires a dedicated VA telephone number for calls about these services and a name, phone number, and email contact on each regional office website.
- Requires VA to approve or deny extension requests within 30 days and report annual request counts to the Veterans' Affairs committees for five years.
- Changes the date in a pension payment limit from January 31, 2033 to July 31, 2033.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (05-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 02-FEB-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Veterans' Affairs Committee (House)
- Economic Opportunity Subcommittee
- Veterans' Affairs Committee (Senate)
Armed Forces and National Security
No cosponsors.