IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3400 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
AN ACT 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assign physicians of 
the Department of Veterans Affairs to temporarily serve 
as traveling physicians in the territories and possessions 
of the United States, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Territorial Response 
and Access to Veterans’ Essential Lifecare Act’’ or the 
‘‘TRAVEL Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS ASSIGNMENT OF 
TRAVELING PHYSICIANS TO SERVE TERRI-
TORIES AND POSSESSIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 74 of title 
38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section: 
‘‘§ 7415. Traveling physicians 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) The Secretary may assign a 
physician appointed under section 7401 or section 7431 
of this title to serve as a traveling physician for a period 
of not more than one year at a time. A physician assigned 
to serve as a traveling physician under this section may 
be assigned to provide health care to veterans residing in 
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the North-
ern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
the Virgin Islands of the United States, or any other terri-
tory or possession of the United States at Department fa-
cilities or other approved facilities located in such territory 
or possession. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary may assign multiple physicians 
to serve as traveling physicians under this section and may 
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assign each such physician to serve in a specific territory 
or possession. 
‘‘(b) COORDINATION OF CARE.—In providing care 
under this section, traveling physicians shall coordinate 
with non-Department medical providers to the extent 
practicable and necessary to ensure high quality and co-
ordinated care for veterans receiving hospital care and 
medical services. 
‘‘(c) PAY.—In addition to pay under section 7431 of 
this title, the Secretary shall provide a relocation or reten-
tion bonus to traveling physicians under this section. Such 
relocation or retention bonus shall be substantially similar 
to a relocation or retention bonus offered under section 
7410(a) of this title, as the Secretary considers appro-
priate.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 7414 the following new 
item: 
‘‘7415. Traveling physicians.’’. 
(c) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
Title 38, United States Code, is further amended as fol-
lows: 
(1) In section 7410(a)(1), by— 
(A) by striking ‘‘retention allowances’’ and 
inserting ‘‘retention bonuses’’; and 
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