VA builds online tool to book veterans with private doctors faster
H.R. 3482 — Veterans Community Care Scheduling Improvement Act · Filed by Tom Barrett (R-MI) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced May 19, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells the VA to build a website. Staff can use it to book appointments for veterans. The website shows both VA hospitals and private doctors. The VA must train staff and set performance rules. The VA must report to Congress on how well it works.
Who it affects
Veterans can book appointments faster through one system. VA staff will use the new website. Private doctors who work with the VA may get more patients.
One thing to notice
The bill requires VA staff to tell veterans about both VA hospitals and private doctors when booking appointments. This could make more veterans choose private doctors instead of VA hospitals.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- May 19, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 19, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- Jun 11, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Feb 12, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Feb 12, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote”
- May 19, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3573-3474)”
- May 19, 2026 — 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 3 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $209,180 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 2 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Tom Barrett, who sponsored the bill, received $1,108,876 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Disabled American Veterans — $149,180 in 1 report
- Wellhive — $60,000 in 1 report
- Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Llp Obo Wellhive — $0 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- performance rules — Standards that measure how fast and well the appointment system works.
- private doctors — Doctors who do not work for the VA but can treat veterans.
- 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 (8,519 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 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 Jun 2026 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 2026-09-21.
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