Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025 in plain language
1: Short 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 .
2: Clarification 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. .