Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025
Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 29
- Latest action
- Sep 16, 2025
What it does
Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 This bill permanently authorizes certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care professionals to use telemedicine to deliver, distribute, or dispense controlled substances that are prescription drugs to patients who are eligible for VA health care, regardless of whether the health care professional has conducted an in-person medical examination. The health care professional must be (1) authorized to prescribe the basic class of such controlled substance under an active, current, full, and unrestricted license or certification; (2) acting in the usual course of professional practice; and (3) delivering, distributing, or…
Official summary · Introduced in House · Feb 6, 2025
Titles and provisions can change as the bill moves.
Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Done)
Floor (Current step)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Steve Womack
- C. Franklin
- Chris Deluzio
- David Valadao
- Derek Tran
- Dina Titus
- Donald Davis
- Elise Stefanik
- Eugene Vindman
- Gabriel (Gabe) Vasquez
- Harold Rogers
- Janelle Bynum
- Jefferson Van Drew
- Jennifer Kiggans
- Joe Neguse
- Joe Wilson
- Josh Harder
- Ken Calvert
- Kristen McDonald Rivet
- Nellie Pou
- Patrick Fallon
- Robert Bresnahan
- Robert Wittman
- Sanford Bishop
- Stephanie Bice
- Steve Cohen
- Susie Lee
- Thomas Suozzi
- Tim Moore
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.