S 607
Passed a chamber
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit a plan within one year for improving how veterans and VA staff schedule health care appointments, and to fully carry it out within two years after that plan is submitted.
Official title: Improving Veteran Access to Care Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received
19-DEC-2025
Senate
Introduced
18-FEB-2025
Referred
18-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
30-JUL-2025
Reported
02-DEC-2025
On the calendar
02-DEC-2025
Passed
18-DEC-2025
- Requires a plan covering self-service online scheduling, telephone scheduling with a live scheduler, and a view of available appointments for primary, mental health, and specialty care
- Requires the VA to explain in its plan any scheduling objective it cannot carry out and propose an alternative without it
- Requires progress reports to the Veterans' Affairs committees of both chambers one and two years after the plan is submitted, covering costs, schedules, and metrics
- Requires the plan to account for the VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization Program and does not block veterans from booking directly with a facility by phone or other non-online method
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (18-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in Senate, 18-DEC-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Veterans' Affairs Committee (Senate)
Armed Forces and National Security
■ 2 R■ 1 D
2 Republicans
1 Democrat