# 119-s-2534: Veteran Families Health Services Act of 2025

119-s-2534, Veteran Families Health Services Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] (D-WA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2534
- Congress: 119
- Title: Veteran Families Health Services Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-07-30
- Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] (D-WA)
- Cosponsors: 24
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Expands fertility and reproductive care for active-duty service members, veterans, and their partners.** It would require the Department of Defense to cover fertility preservation and treatments for active-duty members and their spouses or partners, and authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide fertility treatment, counseling, and adoption assistance to enrolled veterans. - Active-duty members and military families would get DoD-funded fertility treatment and counseling without discrimination by sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, infertility diagnosis, or marital status. IVF access would include up to three completed oocyte retrievals and unlimited embryo transfers, plus cryopreservation before deployment with free storage for up to one year after separation. - Veterans and their spouses or partners would gain a new VA benefit for fertility treatment and counseling, with VA allowed to pay for donated reproductive material and related travel or incidental costs when a veteran cannot provide material. The bill also creates VA adoption assistance capped at the cost of up to three adoptions and allows applicable copayments. - DoD and VA would be required to coordinate care, share best practices, help transitioning members navigate services and ensure continuity of preservation and treatment. The bill would also support joint research to improve long-term reproductive health care and share findings within the VA.

## Cosponsors (24)

- Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] (D-IL), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] (D-NJ), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] (D-NY), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] (D-CT), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] (D-NV), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] (D-MA), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] (I-VT), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] (D-MN), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] (D-NH), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO] (D-CO), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] (D-RI), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] (I-ME), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] (D-MN), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] (D-NM), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] (D-NY), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] (D-CA), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ] (D-AZ), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] (D-NV), 2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA] (D-VA), 2025-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] (D-WI), 2025-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ] (D-AZ), 2025-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More fertility care for service members: benefit, high. If enacted, DoD would be required to offer fertility treatment and counseling to active-duty members and their spouses, partners, or gestational surrogates. DoD could cover egg/sperm/embryo preservation, retrieval, testing, shipping, and storage before hazardous deployments. DoD could pay for stora…
- VA fertility care for enrolled veterans: benefit, high. If enacted, VA would be able to furnish fertility treatment and counseling to covered veterans and their spouses, partners, donors, or surrogates with informed consent. VA could cover preservation, IVF (up to three completed oocyte retrievals and unlimited embryo transfers), and reasonable donor pr…
- DoD–VA coordination for fertility care: benefit, medium. If enacted, DoD and VA would have to share best practices and make a memorandum to coordinate fertility preservation care and referrals. The MOU would cover continuity of coverage as members transition to veteran status. The VA may be allowed to reimburse DoD for cryopreservation, transport, and st…
- VA adoption payments for veterans: benefit, medium. If enacted, VA could pay adoption expenses to help a covered veteran adopt a child. Payments could not exceed a limitation amount equal to VA's cost of up to three adoptions, and the Secretary would set exact amounts and limits.
- VA research on veterans' fertility: benefit, low. If enacted, VA would be required to facilitate collaborative research with DoD and HHS on reproductive health conditions that affect veterans' ability to have children. VA must share useful findings throughout the Veterans Health Administration. Benefits would be indirect and develop over time.

## Related bills

- 119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026
- 119-s-1503: Equality Act
- 119-s-852: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- 119-s-2150: Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025
- 119-s-2523: John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025
- 119-s-1115: Paycheck Fairness Act

## Sources
- [119-s-2534 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2534)

## Related
- [119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5108)
- [119-s-1503: Equality Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1503)
- [119-s-852: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-852)
- [119-s-2150: Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2150)
- [119-s-2523: John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2523)
- [119-s-1115: Paycheck Fairness Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1115)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2534 (as of 2026-04-21).