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119-hr-7103119th CongressWALLET

Improving Emerging Tech Opportunities for Veterans Act

Sponsored By: Representative Hamadeh, Abraham J. [R-AZ-8]

In Committee

Summary

Directs the VA to identify and promote education and training in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing so veterans can move into jobs with growth potential. It would add those technologies to transition programs, speed approval of relevant courses, and rename the High Technology Program to explicitly include emerging technology.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

More tech training partnerships for veterans

If enacted, the VA Secretary would work with private employers, schools, and nonprofits to identify emerging technologies, specific industries and job titles with strong growth potential and the courses that train veterans for those jobs. The VA would be required to add those technologies, courses, industries, and positions to the Transition Assistance Program and feature them on the VA website. Within 90 days after enactment, the VA would set up an expedited approval process for those identified courses using the existing approval rules in chapters 34, 35, and 36 of title 38. The Secretary would consult the Secretary of Labor to decide which technologies count (examples given: artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing). This section would terminate on September 30, 2027.

Include emerging technology in VA programs

If enacted, the bill would change VA high-technology program language to read “high technology and emerging technology.” It would replace references to “high technology” with “high technology or emerging technology” in the named program rules and add a requirement to identify technologies of critical importance (examples: artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing) as emerging technologies. The change would take effect upon enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Hamadeh, Abraham J. [R-AZ-8]

AZ • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3]

    WI • R

    Sponsored 1/21/2026

  • Rep. Pfluger, August [R-TX-11]

    TX • R

    Sponsored 2/23/2026

  • Rep. Kiggans, Jennifer A. [R-VA-2]

    VA • R

    Sponsored 2/24/2026

  • Rep. Walkinshaw, James R. [D-VA-11]

    VA • D

    Sponsored 5/7/2026

Roll Call Votes

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