Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025 passed the House 94 days after introduction and awaits a vote in the Senate
IntroducedFeb 14, 2025
ReportedMay 15, 2025
Passed one chamberMay 19, 2025
Passed both—
Law—
What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 65 words.
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.
Context
- Committees
- House Veterans' Affairs Committee
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee - Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security: 268 of 6,567 bills became law, 113th–118th (4.1%)
- Sponsor
- 0 of 53 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 4, from introduced in house to referred in senate · 141 words
- Subjects
- Disability and health-based discriminationMotor vehiclesVeterans' medical care
- Latest action
- May 20, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 1
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th S. 1726 ASSIST Act of 2025 R · Reported
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]