Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
CARING for Our Veterans Health Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to require implementation by the Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs of certain recommendations relating to the provision of health care through community care providers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Pete Ricketts R-NEWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 23, 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. 2397.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2397, CARING for Our Veterans Health Act of 2026” on April 21, 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, April 21, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62302
- CBO publication date
- April 21, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2397, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/2397
- 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. 2397, 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 — 1 Democrat, 1 independent
2 of 2 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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