All Roll Calls
Yes: 402 • No: 2
HR980119th CongressWALLET
Veterans Readiness and Employment Improvement Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3]
Passed House
Summary
Expands veterans' education and rehabilitation options. The Act removes a VA staffing rule for on-campus counseling, allows approval of non-college flight training as part of rehab, tightens outreach and extension rules, and delays a pension-payment limit.
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- Veterans in campus programs: Removes the rule that on-campus educational and vocational counseling must be provided by Department of Veterans Affairs employees.
- Veterans with service-connected disabilities: Lets the Secretary approve rehabilitation that includes flight training courses not offered for college credit. This authority applies to programs approved on or after August 1, 2026.
- All VA users and offices: Requires a dedicated Education Call Center phone line and regional-office contact details on websites. It also forces extension decisions within 30 days and requires annual reports for five years to the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees listing extension requests, approvals, and denials.
- Pension recipients: Moves the pension-payment limit sunset date from January 31, 2033 to July 31, 2033.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Later start for VA pension limit
If enacted, the start date for a VA pension payment limit would move to July 31, 2033 (from January 31, 2033). This would only delay when the limit starts. It would not change how much your pension pays.
Faster VA rehab extension decisions
If enacted, VA would set up a dedicated phone line in the Education Call Center for Chapter 31 services. Each VA regional office would post a contact name, phone number, and email on its website. VA would approve or deny a veteran's rehab program extension request within 30 days of submission. VA would also send yearly reports to Congress for five years, with the first report due within one year.
VA rehab could cover flight training
If enacted, the VA would be able to approve Chapter 31 programs that include flight training even if it is not part of a college degree. This would apply to rehabilitation programs approved on or after August 1, 2026. This would expand options for veterans in vocational rehab who want non-degree flight training.
VA could change on-campus counselors
If enacted, this would remove the rule that specific VA employees must provide on-campus education and job counseling. VA would have more flexibility to choose who staffs on-campus counseling. A VA employee would no longer be required to be the on-campus counselor.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3]
WI • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 2/2/2026
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
Yes: 402 • No: 2