Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Critical Access for Veterans Care Act
Official title: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand access by veterans to critical access hospitals and affiliated clinics under the Veterans Community Care Program, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 22, 2025
- Committee actionMar 18, 2026
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 18, 2026 — Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1868.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1868, Critical Access for Veterans Care Act” on July 9, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on March 18, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 9, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62548
- CBO publication date
- July 9, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1868, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/1868
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 14, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of July 14, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1868, last updated July 14, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
2 cosponsors — 2 Republicans
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
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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.