Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 5/20/2025
Actions
- 2025-05-20Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- 2025-05-19Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-05-19On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2132)
- 2025-05-19Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2132)
- 2025-05-19DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1364.
- 2025-05-19Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2132-2133)
- 2025-05-19Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 2025-05-15Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 69.
- 2025-05-15Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-96.
- 2025-05-15Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-96.
- 2025-05-06Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2025-04-09Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- 2025-04-09Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2025-03-11Subcommittee Hearings Held
- 2025-03-11Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
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CRS Summary
As of 2025-02-14 (00)
Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025 or the ASSIST Act of 2025
This bill expands the definition of medical services for purposes of veterans’ benefits to include additional medically necessary automobile adaptations. Under the bill, the Department of Veterans Affairs may provide funding for ramp and kneeling systems, lowered floors, mobility device lifts, non-articulating trailers, and ingress or egress accessibility modifications.
Cosponsors (7)
- Maggie Goodlander (D-NH)
- Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY)
- David Valadao (R-CA)
- Susie Lee (D-NV)
- Jason Crow (D-CO)
- Eugene Vindman (D-VA)
Subjects
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Motor vehicles
- Veterans' medical care
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