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Veterans Affairs subcommittee advances six bills to full committee
Summary
The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs subcommittee voted to forward six bills — covering burial rights, military sexual trauma training, claims processing, attorney retention, pilot cancer research, and claims education — to the full committee, with two bills approved as amended.
The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs subcommittee advanced six bills toward full committee consideration during a Feb. 2025 markup, the panel’s chair said, moving measures on burial rights, military sexual trauma (MST) training, veterans claims and attorney retention forward.
The measures — considered largely en bloc with limited floor debate — include bills on burial rights and benefits, improved training for MST claims, medical research for aviator cancers, simplification of VA forms, veterans claims education, and an effort to retain experienced attorneys at the Board of Veterans' Appeals to reduce backlog.
Chairman Luttrell told members the subcommittee had sought informal preliminary cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and that the figures provided were ranges. “None of these bills today include the offsets that would be necessary to move the bills forward through full committee,” the…
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