STRIVE Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3812 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3812

To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the collection of a
   health care copayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from a
   veteran under certain conditions attributable to a failure of the
 Department of Veterans Affairs to process certain information within
        applicable timeliness standards, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 6, 2025

   Mr. Gray introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL

To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the collection of a
   health care copayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from a
   veteran under certain conditions attributable to a failure of the
 Department of Veterans Affairs to process certain information within
        applicable timeliness standards, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Troubling Retroactive Invoices
for Veteran Expenses Act of 2025'' or the ``STRIVE Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON COLLECTION OF HEALTH CARE COPAYMENTS BY THE
              SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS;
              AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY TO WAIVE HEALTH CARE
              COPAYMENTS.

    Section 1730A of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking the heading and inserting ``Prohibitions on
        collection of copayments under certain conditions'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``Prohibition'' and
                inserting ``Prohibitions''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the Secretary may not require''
                and all that follows through the end of the subsection
                and inserting the following: ``the Secretary may not
                require--
            ``(1) a covered veteran to make any copayment for the
        receipt of hospital care or medical services under the laws
        administered by the Secretary;
            ``(2) any veteran to make any copayment for the receipt of
        such hospital care or medical services after the end of the
        two-year period beginning on the date such veteran received
        such hospital care or medical services if the failure of the
        veteran to make such copayment during such period is
        attributable to the failure of an employee, official, or
        information system of the Department to process information
        provided by or on behalf of the veteran within applicable
        timeliness standards established by the Secretary; or
            ``(3) any veteran to make a copayment in an amount that
        exceeds $2,000 for the receipt of such hospital care or medical
        services if the amount of such copayment is attributable to an
        error on the part of an employee, official, or information
        system of the Department.'';
            (3) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
            (4) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new
        subsection:
    ``(b) Waiver Authority.--The Secretary may waive the requirement
for a veteran to make any copayment for the receipt of such hospital
care or medical services in any case in which the Secretary determines
such a waiver would be appropriate, without regard to whether the
veteran submits to the Secretary a request for such waiver.''.
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