Legislation· Sep 2025Sponsored by Steve Womack (R)
Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025
Lets VA doctors prescribe controlled medications via telemedicine without requiring an in-person exam first.
Tradeoff
Expands telemedicine access for veterans receiving controlled substances like opioids or ADHD drugs. Requires VA doctors to follow federal controlled-substance rules and VA quality standards.
What's in it
Less than $500,000 in federal spending over 2025-2030 to update VA policies.
The less than $500,000 is just the federal cost to update VA policies and guidance — the bill's real impact is on VA patients and providers, allowing permanent telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances that was temporary during COVID.
Passed the House by on September 15, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(Feb 6, 2025)
House
Committee on Veterans' Affairs(Feb 6, 2025)
House
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs voted to send it to the floor
Reported(Jul 29, 2025)
Committee report H. Rept. 119-221.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Sep 15, 2025)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Veterans' Affairs(Sep 16, 2025)
- Sanford D. Bishop (D-GA)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA)
- Donald G. Davis (D-NC)
- Joe Neguse (D-CO)
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK)
- David G. Valadao (R-CA)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
- Harold Rogers (R-KY)
- Joe Wilson (R-SC)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ)
- Pat Fallon (R-TX)
- Robert Bresnahan (R-PA)
- Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA)
- Scott Franklin (R-FL)
- Dina Titus (D-NV)
- Tim Moore (R-NC)
- Josh Harder (D-CA)
- Derek Tran (D-CA)
- Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY)
- Christopher R. Deluzio (D-PA)
- Janelle S. Bynum (D-OR)
- Gabe Vasquez (D-NM)
- Nellie Pou (D-NJ)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- Susie Lee (D-NV)
- Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI)