# 119-hr-5994: Every Veteran Counts Act of 2025

119-hr-5994, Every Veteran Counts Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] (D-CA); status introduced (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-5994
- Congress: 119
- Title: Every Veteran Counts Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-11-10
- Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## 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. - 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.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] (D-MI), 2025-11-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- VA would publish anonymized veteran data: mixed, medium. 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…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3077: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-6644: 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-5994 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5994)

## Related
- [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-3077: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3077)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-6644: 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6644)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5994 (as of 2026-04-21).