HR 1107
Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025
Summary
Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 This bill permanently authorizes certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care professionals to use telemedicine to deliver, distribute, or dispense controlled substances that are prescription drugs to patients who are eligible for VA health care, regardless of whether the health care professional has conducted an in-person medical examination. The health care professional must be (1) authorized to prescribe the basic class of such controlled substance under an active, current, full, and unrestricted license or certification; (2) acting in the usual course of professional practice; and (3) delivering, distributing, or dispensing the substance for a legitimate medical purpose.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Steve Womack [R-AR-3]
- Cosponsors
- 28
- Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Introduced
- 2025-02-06
- Latest action
- 2025-09-16: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-09-16: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- 2025-09-15: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-09-15: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-09-15: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4279)
- 2025-09-15: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4279-4280: 1)