Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate
Improving Veteran Access to Care Act
Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish an integrated project team to improve the process for scheduling appointments for health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 18, 2025
- Committee actionJul 30, 2025
- Passed SenateDec 18, 2025 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 19, 2025 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 607.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 607, Improving Veterans Access to Care Act” on November 6, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 30, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61858
- CBO publication date
- November 6, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 607, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/607
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 8, 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 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 607, last updated July 8, 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
3 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
2 of 3 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), John Boozman (R-AR), Jerry Moran (R-KS).
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Related bills
- H.R. 9237 (119th) Take Care of America’s Veterans ActRelated bill
- S. 4744 (119th) Take Care of America’s Veterans ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.