House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
STRIVE Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the collection of a health care copayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from a veteran under certain conditions attributable to a failure of the Department of Veterans Affairs to process certain information within applicable timeliness standards, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 6, 2025
- Committee actionJul 23, 2025
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 7, 2025 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 323.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3812.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3812, Stop Troubling Retroactive Invoices for Veterans Expenses Act of 2025” on October 23, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 23, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61819
- CBO publication date
- October 23, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3812, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3812
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 18, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 119-371 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Veterans' Affairs Committee on November 7, 2025.Source: Congress.gov, reported November 7, 2025 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/371
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3812, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3812
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 18, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c377167ec65085d75d1ec02955412e92b24b0c41fc9104d551701b324608710e
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRAY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 97, June 6, 2025, Page H2534):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 6, 2025 ↗
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- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3812, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3812
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 18, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c377167ec65085d75d1ec02955412e92b24b0c41fc9104d551701b324608710e
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
8 cosponsors — 8 Democrats
0 of 8 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Angie Craig (D-MN), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Mark Takano (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.