Veterans Readiness and Employment Improvement Act of 2025
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Introduced 2025-02-05
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Officially: “Veterans Readiness and Employment Improvement Act of 2025” Read the full text
Armed Forces and National Security
What it does
Modernizing the Veterans On-Campus Experience Act of 2025 This bill removes the requirement that educational and vocational counseling services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on campus at institutions of higher learning must be provided by VA counselors.
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1Short title
This section gives the Act its official name, the Modernizing the Veterans On-Campus Experience Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Modernizing the Veterans On-Campus Experience Act of 2025 .
2Elimination of requirement that on-campus educational and vocational counseling is provided by certain Department of Veterans Affairs employees
This section would amend 38 U.S.C. 3697B(a) by striking its second sentence. The text of that subsection is base statute this rendering does not hold, so what the second sentence currently requires, and the full effect of removing it, cannot be stated without inventing content. The section heading indicates the change eliminates a requirement that on-campus educational and vocational counseling be provided by certain Department of Veterans Affairs employees.
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2. Elimination of requirement that on-campus educational and vocational counseling is provided by certain Department of Veterans Affairs employees Section 3697B(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking the second sentence.
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Where it is
Introduced · 2025-02-05
In the House.
Committee hearing · 2025-03-11
Passed the House · 2026-02-02
Senate floor vote · next
Official documents
Full bill textread it on this site, version rfs (Referred in Senate), as published by GovInfo
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The numbers
29%
of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)
1
sponsor, out of 218 needed to pass
Who is lobbying on this
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANSvia DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
6 filingsFLEET RESERVE ASSOCIATIONvia FLEET RESERVE ASSOCIATION
6 filingsPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICAvia PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
6 filingsFrom 18 filings in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2025 to 2026). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.
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. (2026-02-03).