NOPAIN for Veterans Act
Committee hearing: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Committee hearing
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 36
- Latest action
- Jan 13, 2026
What it does
The NOPAIN for Veterans Act would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include certain FDA-approved non-opioid pain management drugs or biological products in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ national formulary and drug standardization list within one year of their eligibility for specific Medicare payments, and to implement these changes within 90 days of enactment. The bill defines such products as those that reduce postoperative pain or produce analgesia without acting on opioid receptors. It also prohibits using funds from the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund to carry out these requirements. The bill affects veterans receiving care through the VA by expanding access to…
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Greg Landsman
- Abraham Hamadeh
- Angie Craig
- Becca Balint
- Brian Fitzpatrick
- Brittany Pettersen
- Chris Pappas
- Derek Schmidt
- Derek Tran
- Derrick Van Orden
- Eleanor Norton
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Eugene Vindman
- Greg Stanton
- Jack Bergman
- James Himes
- Janelle Bynum
- Jennifer Kiggans
- Joseph Morelle
- Joyce Beatty
- Juan Ciscomani
- Kelly Morrison
- Maggie Goodlander
- Nicholas Begich
- Nicole (Nikki) Budzinski
- Nikema Williams
- Pat Harrigan
- Ro Khanna
- Ryan Mackenzie
- Sarah McBride
- Shri Thanedar
- Suzan DelBene
- Terri Sewell
- Thomas Suozzi
- Timothy Kennedy
- William Keating
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