# 119-hr-5611: Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2025

119-hr-5611, Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13] (D-MI); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-5611
- Congress: 119
- Title: Mental Health Care Provider Retention Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-09-26
- Sponsor: Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13] (D-MI)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Continuity of mental health care during the DoD-to-VA transition** is the bill's main aim. It lets a person moving from Department of Defense treatment to Department of Veterans Affairs care continue seeing their DoD mental health provider while they transfer. - Transitioning service members and veterans may elect to keep their Department of Defense mental health provider and receive the same priority as members of the Armed Forces at the military medical treatment facility where they continue care. If the provider departs or the individual relocates and cannot reasonably get care at that facility, the individual may choose another provider at the same facility or transition to a VA provider. - The Department of Veterans Affairs must reimburse the Department of Defense for services that the VA would otherwise have furnished. The VA must also ensure any DoD mental health provider who treated the covered individual submits copies of those medical records for inclusion in the veteran's VA electronic medical record.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Keep your military mental health provider: benefit, medium. If enacted, this would let you keep seeing your military mental health provider while you move to VA care. You must have a diagnosed mental health condition and be enrolling in the VA patient system, or be newly enrolled and still in transition, as VA determines. You would get the same priority as…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-2945: Housing for All Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-5611 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5611)

## Related
- [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6900)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-2945: Housing for All Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2945)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5611 (as of 2026-04-21).