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119-s-1441119th CongressWALLET

SAVES Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]

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Summary

Grants to fund service dogs for eligible veterans. This bill would create a VA pilot program that pays nonprofit groups to train and give service dogs and related support to veterans with qualifying disabilities.

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  • Families and veterans: Eligible veterans could receive a service dog at no cost and VA-paid commercial veterinary insurance for the dog. Eligibility lists blindness, mobility loss, hearing loss, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or other VA-approved disabilities.
  • Nonprofit providers: Nonprofits may apply for grants up to $2.0 million per fiscal year to plan, develop, implement, and manage programs, and must show experience training service dogs and meet humane and Americans with Disabilities Act standards.
  • VA operations and oversight: VA would run the pilot for five years after the first award, provide technical help, set reporting and monitoring rules, cap administrative costs if needed, and may raise grant amounts for inflation with congressional notice.
  • Budget and funding: The bill authorizes $10.0 million per year for five years to carry out the pilot.

*This bill would increase federal spending by about $50.0 million over five years from the authorized appropriations.*

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Service dogs and dog insurance for veterans

If enacted, VA would set up a competitive pilot to fund nonprofits that give service dogs to eligible veterans. VA must start the pilot within 24 months and it would run five years after the first grant is awarded. Grants would generally be capped at $2,000,000 per nonprofit per year, paid in intervals, and used to run programs that only enroll eligible veterans. Nonprofits could not charge veterans fees, must tell veterans the dog was paid for by VA, and must provide training and humane standards. VA would also provide each veteran a commercially available veterinary insurance policy for the service dog and continue that policy even if the pilot ends. The bill would authorize $10,000,000 in appropriations each year for five years to carry out the pilot.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]

NC • R

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]

    CT • D

    Sponsored 4/10/2025

  • Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]

    TX • R

    Sponsored 4/10/2025

  • Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 4/10/2025

  • Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]

    ND • R

    Sponsored 4/10/2025

  • Sen. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 4/10/2025

  • Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]

    ME • I

    Sponsored 4/10/2025

  • Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]

    NV • D

    Sponsored 4/10/2025

  • Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]

    NH • D

    Sponsored 4/10/2025

  • Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 4/29/2025

  • Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]

    NC • R

    Sponsored 5/6/2025

  • Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]

    NM • D

    Sponsored 6/2/2025

  • Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 6/2/2025

  • Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]

    NJ • D

    Sponsored 6/2/2025

  • Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]

    NM • D

    Sponsored 6/2/2025

  • Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]

    HI • D

    Sponsored 6/12/2025

  • Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]

    DE • D

    Sponsored 7/17/2025

  • Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 7/17/2025

  • Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]

    NV • D

    Sponsored 7/22/2025

  • Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]

    WI • D

    Sponsored 7/23/2025

  • Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]

    NH • D

    Sponsored 7/29/2025

  • Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD]

    MD • D

    Sponsored 7/30/2025

  • Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 9/3/2025

  • Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]

    WV • R

    Sponsored 9/9/2025

  • Sen. Husted, Jon [R-OH]

    OH • R

    Sponsored 10/3/2025

  • Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]

    GA • D

    Sponsored 3/10/2026

  • Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]

    WA • D

    Sponsored 3/10/2026

  • Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 6/1/2026

  • Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]

    AK • R

    Sponsored 6/2/2026

  • Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]

    MN • D

    Sponsored 7/21/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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