VA Extenders Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill provides extends the requirement for VA to provide nursing home care to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities from September 30, 2025 to September 30, 2026, creates extends the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program through September 30, 2026, and provides extends funding for the Rural Access Network for Growth Enhancement (RANGE) Program through 2026. It relies on grants, appropriations, reporting requirements, and loan guarantees. The main policy areas are Veterans Affairs, Healthcare, Finance, and Technology.
Who Benefits and How
Congress would be affected, Veterans with service-connected disabilities requiring nursing home care could see lower costs, and Veterans whose schools close or lose approval could see lower costs.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA could face higher costs, GAO would take on compliance duties, and VA loan guaranty program could face higher costs.
Key Provisions
- Provides extends the requirement for VA to provide nursing home care to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities from September 30, 2025 to September 30, 2026.
- Creates extends the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program through September 30, 2026.
- Provides extends funding for the Rural Access Network for Growth Enhancement (RANGE) Program through 2026.
- Requires extends quarterly briefings on toxic exposure presumptive service connection determinations from the original 2-year period to December 31, 2026.
- Provides extends the requirement to restore educational assistance entitlement when educational institutions close or lose approval from September 30, 2025 to September 30, 2026.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill provides extends the requirement for VA to provide nursing home care to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities from September 30, 2025 to September 30, 2026, creates extends the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program through September 30, 2026, and provides extends funding for the Rural Access Network for Growth Enhancement (RANGE) Program through 2026.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans Affairs, Healthcare, Finance, Technology
Primary Purpose
The bill provides extends the requirement for VA to provide nursing home care to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities from September 30, 2025 to September 30, 2026, creates extends the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program through September 30, 2026, and provides extends funding for the Rural Access Network for Growth Enhancement (RANGE) Program through 2026.
Policy Domains
Title I - Health Care Matters
Identified Gains
- Congress
- Veterans with service-connected disabilities requiring nursing home care
- Veterans whose schools close or lose approval
- Very low-income veteran families in permanent housing
- Homeless women veterans and veterans with children
Identified Costs
- VA
- GAO
- VA loan guaranty program
- VA education benefits administration
- VA loan program
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Moran (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congress, Congress (Veterans Affairs Committees), GAO
Positive-direction: Congress, Congress (Veterans Affairs Committees), VA disability examination services
Negative-direction: GAO, VA, VA education benefits administration, VA loan guaranty program, VA loan program
Disabled veterans needing adapted housing technology, Homeless veterans with special needs, Homeless women veterans and veterans with children
Contract physicians performing VA disability examinations, Organizations providing suicide prevention services to veterans, Rural mental health providers
Organizations serving homeless women veterans, SSVF grantee organizations, Service providers for homeless veterans with special needs
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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