HR 3455
Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025
Summary
Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report to Congress on the feasibility, potential benefits, and risks associated with implementing distributed ledger technology to improve claims adjudication and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse within the VA’s benefits administration systems. Under the bill, a distributed ledger (1) is shared across a set of distributed nodes that participate in a network and store a complete or partial replica of the ledger, (2) is synchronized between the nodes, and (3) has data appended to it by following a specified consensus mechanism.
Bill status
- Status
- Reported
- Sponsor
- Rep. Nancy Mace [R-SC-1]
- Cosponsors
- 0
- Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Introduced
- 2025-05-15
- Latest action
- 2025-10-10: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 292.
Committee referrals
- Veterans' Affairs Committee: House · Reported By · 2025-10-10
- Veterans' Affairs Committee: House · Markup By · 2025-07-23
- Veterans' Affairs Committee: House · Discharged from · 2025-07-23
- Veterans' Affairs Committee: House · Markup By · 2025-07-23
- Veterans' Affairs Committee: House · Referred To · 2025-05-15
Recent actions
- 2025-10-10: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 292.
- 2025-10-10: Reported by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-340.
- 2025-10-10: Reported by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-340.
- 2025-07-23: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- 2025-07-23: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held