Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025
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Introduced 2025-02-14
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Officially: “Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025” Read the full text
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What it does
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.
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1Short title
This section would let the Act be called the Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025, or the ASSIST Act of 2025, for short.
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1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025 or the ASSIST Act of 2025 .
2Clarification regarding inclusion of medically necessary automobile adaptations in Department of Veterans Affairs definition of medical services
This section would rewrite section 1701(6)(I) of title 38, United States Code, the part of the law that defines what counts as medical services for Department of Veterans Affairs purposes. Under the rewritten definition, medical services would include the provision of any medically necessary automobile adaptations. The section lists the kinds of adaptations that would be covered: ramp and kneeling systems; raised doors or lowered floors; raised roofs; air conditioning; mobility device lifts; non-articulating trailers; modifications for ingress or egress accessibility; and wheelchair tiedowns.
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2. Clarification regarding inclusion of medically necessary automobile adaptations in Department of Veterans Affairs definition of medical services
Section 1701(6)(I) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
(I) The provision of any medically necessary automobile adaptations, including—
(i) ramp and kneeling systems;
(ii) raised doors or lowered floors;
(iii) raised roofs;
(iv) air conditioning;
(v) mobility device lifts;
(vi) non-articulating trailers;
(vii) ingress or egress accessibility modifications; and
(viii) wheelchair tiedowns.
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Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (2025-05-20).