Bill clarifies where the veterans' survivors office sits in VA leadership
H.R. 1228 — Prioritizing Veterans’ Survivors Act · Filed by Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Feb 12, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill changes where the Office of Survivors Assistance reports. It must report to the VA Secretary. Right now the office is somewhere in the department. This makes the reporting line clear. Survivors know who is in charge of helping them.
Who it affects
Survivors of dead veterans are affected. They may get clearer answers about who to contact for help.
One thing to notice
The office now reports to the top VA leader. This may make the office more visible and faster.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Feb 12, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 12, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- Mar 26, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Apr 7, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
- Apr 9, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 424 - 0…”
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 $249,349 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.
Juan Ciscomani, who sponsored the bill, received $1,674,277 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Paralyzed Veterans of America — $199,349 in 2 reports
- National Funeral Directors Assn — $50,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Office of Survivors Assistance — The part of VA that helps people whose family members died in the military.
- Secretary — The top leader of a government department.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (401 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 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 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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