HR 1364
Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025
Summary
Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025 or the ASSIST Act of 2025 This bill expands the definition of medical services for purposes of veterans’ benefits to include additional medically necessary automobile adaptations. Under the bill, the Department of Veterans Affairs may provide funding for ramp and kneeling systems, lowered floors, mobility device lifts, non-articulating trailers, and ingress or egress accessibility modifications.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Tom Barrett [R-MI-7]
- Cosponsors
- 7
- Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Introduced
- 2025-02-14
- Latest action
- 2025-05-20: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-05-20: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- 2025-05-19: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-05-19: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2132)
- 2025-05-19: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2132)
- 2025-05-19: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1364.