I 
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 time-
liness standards, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 6, 2025 
Mr. GRAY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the collec-
tion 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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Troubling Retro-
active Invoices for Veteran Expenses Act of 2025’’ or the 
‘‘STRIVE Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON COLLECTION OF HEALTH CARE 
COPAYMENTS BY THE SECRETARY OF VET-
ERANS AFFAIRS UNDER CERTAIN CONDI-
TIONS; 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 ‘‘PROHIBI-
TION’’ and inserting ‘‘PROHIBITIONS’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the Secretary may not re-
quire’’ 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 
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the failure of an employee, official, or information 
system of the Department to process information 
provided by or on behalf of the veteran within appli-
cable timeliness standards established by the Sec-
retary; 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 sub-
section (c); and 
(4) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(b) WAIVER
AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may 
waive the requirement for a veteran to make any copay-
ment for the receipt of such hospital care or medical serv-
ices 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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