Veteran Families Health Services Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Patty Murray
Introduced
Summary
Expands fertility and reproductive care for active-duty service members, veterans, and their partners. It would require the Department of Defense to cover fertility preservation and treatments for active-duty members and their spouses or partners, and authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide fertility treatment, counseling, and adoption assistance to enrolled veterans.
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- Active-duty members and military families would get DoD-funded fertility treatment and counseling without discrimination by sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, infertility diagnosis, or marital status. IVF access would include up to three completed oocyte retrievals and unlimited embryo transfers, plus cryopreservation before deployment with free storage for up to one year after separation.
- Veterans and their spouses or partners would gain a new VA benefit for fertility treatment and counseling, with VA allowed to pay for donated reproductive material and related travel or incidental costs when a veteran cannot provide material. The bill also creates VA adoption assistance capped at the cost of up to three adoptions and allows applicable copayments.
- DoD and VA would be required to coordinate care, share best practices, help transitioning members navigate services and ensure continuity of preservation and treatment. The bill would also support joint research to improve long-term reproductive health care and share findings within the VA.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More fertility care for service members
If enacted, DoD would be required to offer fertility treatment and counseling to active-duty members and their spouses, partners, or gestational surrogates. DoD could cover egg/sperm/embryo preservation, retrieval, testing, shipping, and storage before hazardous deployments. DoD could pay for storage through one year after retirement or separation. For IVF, DoD could cover up to three completed oocyte retrievals and unlimited embryo transfers. DoD may pay or reimburse reasonable donor procurement costs in some cases.
VA fertility care for enrolled veterans
If enacted, VA would be able to furnish fertility treatment and counseling to covered veterans and their spouses, partners, donors, or surrogates with informed consent. VA could cover preservation, IVF (up to three completed oocyte retrievals and unlimited embryo transfers), and reasonable donor procurement and travel costs. Copayments would apply only when the veteran is normally required to pay VA copays and agrees to pay them. VA must issue rules within two years.
DoD–VA coordination for fertility care
If enacted, DoD and VA would have to share best practices and make a memorandum to coordinate fertility preservation care and referrals. The MOU would cover continuity of coverage as members transition to veteran status. The VA may be allowed to reimburse DoD for cryopreservation, transport, and storage of veterans' reproductive material.
VA adoption payments for veterans
If enacted, VA could pay adoption expenses to help a covered veteran adopt a child. Payments could not exceed a limitation amount equal to VA's cost of up to three adoptions, and the Secretary would set exact amounts and limits.
VA research on veterans' fertility
If enacted, VA would be required to facilitate collaborative research with DoD and HHS on reproductive health conditions that affect veterans' ability to have children. VA must share useful findings throughout the Veterans Health Administration. Benefits would be indirect and develop over time.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Patty Murray
WA • D
Cosponsors
Tammy Duckworth
IL • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Cory Booker
NJ • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Charles Schumer
NY • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Jeff Merkley
OR • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Elizabeth Warren
MA • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Bernie Sanders
VT • I
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Jeanne Shaheen
NH • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
John Hickenlooper
CO • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Sheldon Whitehouse
RI • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Angus King
ME • I
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Tina Smith
MN • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Martin Heinrich
NM • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Kirsten Gillibrand
NY • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Ron Wyden
OR • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Alex Padilla
CA • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Ruben Gallego
AZ • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Catherine Cortez Masto
NV • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Timothy Kaine
VA • D
Sponsored 9/8/2025
Tammy Baldwin
WI • D
Sponsored 9/8/2025
Mark Kelly
AZ • D
Sponsored 10/7/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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