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119-hr-5994119th Congress

Every Veteran Counts Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]

Introduced

Summary

Create a public, anonymized VA demographic database that would collect detailed information on veterans' identities, service history, income, housing, and access to services. It would set data retention standards and require the VA to publish machine-readable data online.

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  • Veterans and families: Would make data on housing status, gross income, broadband access, disability ratings, and service exposures available for policymakers and researchers to better target benefits and programs.
  • VA planners and Congress: Would standardize what the VA collects and require a VA data strategy report to Congress within 1 year describing progress, challenges, recommended legislation, and priority data needs for policymaking.
  • Privacy and public access: Would require data to be anonymized to protect sensitive information and made machine readable, with the public site updated at least annually. It would also set a 180-day deadline for implementation after enactment.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

VA would publish anonymized veteran data

The bill would require the VA to collect and publish anonymized data about veterans. It would pull data from VA, the Census Bureau, and Social Security. The database would include sex and gender identity; age and education; race and ethnicity (including tribe); sexual orientation; family and income; housing and work; military service history and exposures; VA enrollment and disability rating; where you live, distance to VA care, and broadband access. The VA would post the data online in a machine-readable format and update it at least once a year. The VA would have to launch this within 180 days after enactment. The VA would also report to Congress on its data strategy within one year and post that report online within 30 days.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]

CA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 11/10/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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