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Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025
This bill includes any nurse registry as an eligible health care provider under the Veterans Community Care Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Under the bill, a nurse registry is a person who satisfies applicable state licensure requirements and procures, or attempts to procure, contracts or agreements on behalf of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, home health aides, companions, or homemakers under which such individuals may furnish health care-related or assistive services and receive compensation.
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Rep. Mast, Brian J. [R-FL-21] · R–FL
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-03-06 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025 would expressly recognize nurse registries and workers furnishing services through them within the Veterans Community Care Program. Registries arrange or try to arrange paid service contracts for nurses, aides, companions and homemakers. To qualify under the proposed definition, registries would need to meet any applicable state licensing requirement.
This Act may be cited as the Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025.
Recognition of nurse registries for purposes of Veterans Community Care Program
(5) Any nurse registry, including any registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, certified nursing assistant, home health aide, companion, or homemaker furnishing services through a nurse registry.
(3) The term nurse registry means a person that— (A) procures, or attempts to procure, contracts or other agreements on behalf of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, home health aides, companions, or homemakers, under which such individuals may provide health care-related or assistive services (including such services provided directly to patients or in support of health care facilities) and receive compensation for such services; and (B) satisfies any applicable State licensure requirement.
Section 2 would add nurse registries to section 1703(c) of title 38, expressly including registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, home health aides, companions and homemakers furnishing services through a registry. It would renumber the existing paragraph (5) as paragraph (6). The surrounding statutory provisions are not supplied.
Section 1703 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (c)— (A) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and (B) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph: (5) Any nurse registry, including any registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, certified nursing assistant, home health aide, companion, or homemaker furnishing services through a nurse registry.
The proposed definition would cover a registry that obtains, or tries to obtain, contracts or other agreements for the listed workers to provide paid health care-related or assistance services. Those services could be delivered directly to patients or support health care facilities.
(3) The term nurse registry means a person that— (A) procures, or attempts to procure, contracts or other agreements on behalf of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, home health aides, companions, or homemakers, under which such individuals may provide health care-related or assistive services (including such services provided directly to patients or in support of health care facilities) and receive compensation for such services;
Meeting any applicable state licensing requirement would also be necessary to qualify as a nurse registry under the proposed definition.
and (B) satisfies any applicable State licensure requirement.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated December 5, 2025, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on March 6, 2025, followed by referral to the Subcommittee on Health on March 27, 2025. It does not establish what happened after those recorded actions.
Source snapshot updated 2025-12-05T22:01:49Z. 2025-03-27: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 2025-03-06: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 2025-03-06: Introduced in House
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Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
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Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
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