A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure veterans may obtain a physical copy of a form for reimbursement of certain travel expenses by mail or at medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-812
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-03-03
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-03-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that a veteran may obtain a physical copy of the form needed for travel reimbursements at any VA medical facility or, upon request, by mail. The VA must also ensure a veteran may submit the form to any VA medical facility in person or by mail. Such medical facilities must evaluate the form and process any claim associated with the form.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 812 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 3, 2025 Mr. Scott of Florida (for himself, Ms. Rosen , Mr. Marshall , Mr. Risch , Mr. Wicker , Mr. King , Mr. Tillis , Mr. Rounds , and Mr. Peters ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure veterans may obtain a physical copy of a form for reimbursement of certain travel expenses by mail or at medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

1. Requirement for Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make available to veterans physical copies of form for reimbursement of certain travel expenses (a) In general The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe regulations to ensure that— (1) a veteran may, for the purposes of submitting a claim for the reimbursement of expenses for travel under section 111 of title 38, United States Code— (A) obtain a physical copy of the covered form— (i) by mail, upon the request of such veteran; or (ii) at any medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs; and (B) submit the covered form to any such medical facility in person or by mail; and (2) any such medical facility to which a veteran submits the covered form— (A) evaluates such covered form; and (B) processes any claim associated with such covered form, if applicable. (b) Covered form defined In this section, the term covered form means Department of Veterans Affairs Form 10–3452 (or any successor document).