Honor Our Promise to Veterans Act of 2025

Section 101 would put deadlines on VA scheduling. Urgent visits would have to happen within two days. Other visits would have to be booked within a week of the ask.

Section 111 would give private providers one year to send VA a claim. A provider that misses the deadline could not turn around and bill the veteran instead.

Section 126 would extend an existing VA benefit to community care. Veterans hurt by a VA-paid provider's mistake could draw disability payments. Survivors could draw payments after a death.

Section 112 would create an MST Aware rating for private providers. To earn it, they would finish VA training on military sexual trauma and on care for women veterans. The firms that run VA's networks would post who holds the rating.

Section 102 would limit when a veteran can use telehealth from a VA-paid private provider. It would be allowed only when VA has no telehealth for that need. It is also allowed when VA's wait is longer, or when the veteran already sees that provider in person.

The same section would subtract VA's payment from any court award the veteran wins against that provider. In practice the provider would owe the veteran less.

Section 216 would make telework the standard for VA employees. Jobs that must be done on site would be exempt. The policy would override conflicting White House or VA memos.

Section 202 would raise the yearly limit on incentive pay for VA pharmacist executives. Recruiting and retention bonuses would no longer count against that limit.

Section 211 would treat VA police like other federal police for retirement. Officers already on the job would have five years to ask that past service count. Full credit may cost them a payment into the fund.

Section 221 would pay tuition for medical support assistants. Those are the staff who book visits and handle records, and they need two years at VA first. Section 222 would add a second program for building trades.

The same program would pay off up to $40,000 in student loans for people hired into those scheduling jobs. They would have to stay three years or pay part of it back.

Section 214 would set a time limit on each step of VA's hiring approvals. If an approver runs five business days late, the step counts as approved.

Section 103 would require VA to tell a veteran the wait and drive time for each way of getting a visit. The same figures would go on VA's public Access to Care site, with ten years of history.

Section 316 would authorize about $125 billion for VA buildings through 2037. If a President's budget asks for less, VA would have to give a written reason. It would also list the projects left unfunded.

Section 117 would let VA's Inspector General audit any clinic or firm treating veterans under VA programs. Auditors could arrive unannounced and ask for records without a subpoena.

Section 231 would expand VA's public staffing website. It would show open jobs by hospital and by stage of hiring, plus posts nobody has started filling.

Section 125 would have the Inspector General publish a review of dialysis care within 18 months. If violations are still open a year later, VA would have to fine the provider until they are fixed.

The Start and Stay and Build and Maintain programs would both end ten years after the law passed. Congress would have to pass a new law to keep them going.