VA staff must get training on military sexual trauma claims
H.R. 2201 — Improving VA Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims Act · Filed by Young Kim (R-CA) · 5 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 18, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill requires the VA to train all staff every year. The training covers how to treat veterans with care. The VA must help veterans get their service records. The VA must help veterans get their medical records. The VA must report on training for hired doctors.
Who it affects
Veterans who file military sexual trauma claims get help. VA staff who process these claims must take training. Doctors hired by the VA must follow new rules.
One thing to notice
The bill does not say how much money the VA gets for training. The bill does not say what happens if hired doctors break the rules.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
5 cosponsors: 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
- Mar 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 18, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- Apr 9, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- May 6, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote”
- May 19, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2130-2131)”
- 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
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 4 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $460,451 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 97 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Young Kim, who sponsored the bill, received $1,618,312 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Disabled American Veterans — $310,451 in 2 reports
- Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Inc — $120,000 in 1 report
- Wounded Warrior Project — $30,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- military sexual trauma — Sexual assault or harassment that happened while a person served in the military.
- training — Classes that teach people how to do their job better.
- 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 (2,665 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 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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