VA creates new group to help disabled war veterans get better access
H.R. 1147 — Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025 · Filed by David Valadao (R-CA) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 7, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill sets up a new group inside the VA. The group has 15 members. Members are war veterans with disabilities, access experts, VA staff, and people from war veteran groups. The group will tell VA how to make services, buildings, and websites easier to use. Every two years, the group must report to Congress about access problems and fixes.
Who it affects
War veterans with disabilities get a formal way to tell VA what needs to change. The VA must listen to the group's advice. Congress will get reports about access problems.
One thing to notice
The group will stop after seven years unless Congress votes to keep it. The VA must shut down or merge other groups before starting this new one.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Democrats.
- Feb 7, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 7, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- May 19, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
- May 19, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $199,349 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 81 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
David Valadao, who sponsored the bill, received $2,011,902 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Paralyzed Veterans of America — $199,349 in 2 reports
- Blinded Veterans Association — $0 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
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How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (9,523 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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