House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Enhancing Faith-Based Support for Veterans Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit the voluntary transmission of patient contact information to certain religious or faith-based organizations by chaplains employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Keith Self R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 14, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 14, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5758.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SELF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 169, October 14, 2025, Page H4537):Article I Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5758, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5758
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- November 17, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Keith Self.
- H.R. 6230 (119th) Tehran Incitement to Violence Act
- H.R. 6916 (119th) Federal Program Integrity and Fraud Prevention Act of 2026
- H.R. 7653 (119th) Biodefense Diplomacy Enhancement Act
- H.R. 7632 (119th) SHADOW Act
- H.R. 5853 (119th) To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to increase the civil penalties that may be imposed under such Act.
- H.R. 6411 (119th) Preshevo Valley Discrimination Assessment Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.