House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Veterans Healthcare Equality Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity in connection with the furnishing of health care under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Timothy Kennedy D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 30, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 15, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5635.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KENNEDY of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 160, September 30, 2025, Page H4510):Clause 3, Section 8, Article 1 of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 30, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 51 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5635, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5635
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 24, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 24, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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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
28 cosponsors — 28 Democrats
0 of 28 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Becca Balint (D-VT), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Maxine Dexter (D-OR), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Emily Randall (D-WA), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), James Walkinshaw (D-VA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Nikema Williams (D-GA).
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.