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Pub. L. 119-56 · H.R. 1912 · 119th Congress

Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act of 2025

Signed into law Dec 12, 2025 · Armed Forces and National Security

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What this law does

  • Changes how the VA repays veterans' benefits that were misused by a person appointed to manage them (a fiduciary).
  • Requires the VA to set methods and timing for deciding whether its own negligence caused the misuse.
  • Bars the VA from holding back repayment while it decides whether it was negligent.
  • Requires repayment to go to a surviving beneficiary if the original beneficiary dies first.
1 subject in this law: VA benefit misuse repayment

Plain-language list by Voting On, based only on the official summary by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service and the bill's titles. Read the official summary.

How it became law

  1. IntroducedMar 6, 2025 · House
  2. 60 daysPassed HouseMay 5, 2025
  3. 199 daysPassed SenateNov 20, 2025
  4. 13 daysPresented to the PresidentDec 3, 2025
  5. 9 daysSigned into lawDec 12, 2025
281days, introduction to signature
60days to pass the House
199more days to pass the Senate
Nowent back to a chamber after changes
Novetoed

Official summary

Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act of 2025

This act modifies the procedures by which the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reissues misused benefits to a beneficiary, including by requiring the VA to establish methods and timing with respect to determining whether an instance of misuse by a fiduciary is the result of negligence by the VA. The act also provides that if a beneficiary predeceases a reissuance, the VA must pay the amount to a surviving beneficiary in the same method as certain other VA benefits are paid upon the death of a beneficiary.

Under the act, the VA may not withhold the reissuing of a benefit payment by reason of a pending determination regarding the VA's negligence in relation to the instance of misuse by a fiduciary. Additionally, the VA is not required to make a determination regarding its negligence for each instance of misuse by a fiduciary of all or part of an individual's benefit paid to such fiduciary.

Summary by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (Public Law, Dec 12, 2025).

Who wrote it

Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]

7 cosponsors: 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats. 5 signed on the day it was introduced, 2 joined later.

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CosponsorSigned on
Rep. Ciscomani, Juan [R-AZ-6]Mar 6, 2025Original cosponsor
Rep. Murphy, Gregory F. [R-NC-3]Mar 6, 2025Original cosponsor
Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3]Mar 6, 2025Original cosponsor
Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]Mar 6, 2025Original cosponsor
Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]Mar 6, 2025Original cosponsor
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]Mar 21, 2025
Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9]Apr 7, 2025

Recorded votes

No recorded roll-call votes. It passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, where individual votes are not recorded.

What was added

Amendments adopted (0)

No floor amendments were adopted. Any changes were made in committee or in a later version of the bill.

Sections in the final law that were not in the first version (Introduced in House) (0)

None. Every section heading in the final law was already in the first version (Introduced in House).

What was removed

Sections in the first version (Introduced in House) that did not make it into the law (0)

None. Every section heading from the first version (Introduced in House) remains in the law.

Compared by section heading between the Introduced in House text (Mar 6, 2025) and the Enrolled Bill text, both from GovInfo. Wording changes inside a section that kept its heading are not shown here; see the amendments and the text versions.

Proposed but not adopted

No amendments were voted down or withdrawn.

Full action history

Show all 22 official actions
Dec 12, 2025Signed by President.
Dec 12, 2025Signed by President.
Dec 12, 2025Became Public Law No: 119-56.
Dec 12, 2025Became Public Law No: 119-56.
Dec 3, 2025Presented to President.
Dec 3, 2025Presented to President.
Nov 20, 2025Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Nov 20, 2025Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Nov 20, 2025Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Nov 20, 2025Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8400)
Nov 20, 2025Message on Senate action sent to the House.
May 6, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
May 5, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
May 5, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1817-1818: 1)
May 5, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1817-1818)
May 5, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1912.
May 5, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1817-1819)
May 5, 2025Mr. Bergman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Mar 27, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Mar 6, 2025Introduced in House
Mar 6, 2025Introduced in House
Mar 6, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Sources: Congress.gov (bill record, sponsors, actions, amendments, CRS summary) and GovInfo (official text). Days are calendar days.