VA must expand mental health care for war fighters
H.R. 6024 — BRAVE Act of 2025 · Filed by Jason Crow (D-CO) · 10 cosponsors · Introduced Nov 12, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the VA to hire more mental health workers. It lets the VA hire counselors without full licenses for a short time. The bill requires the VA to study pay gaps among mental health staff. It tells VA medical centers to work better with Vet Centers. It funds more Vet Center care. It starts new programs for women war fighters. It starts new programs for war fighters with spinal cord harm.
Who it affects
War fighters get better access to mental health help. Women war fighters and war fighters with spinal cord harm get targeted programs. Mental health workers at the VA may see changes in hiring and pay rules.
One thing to notice
The bill lets the VA hire counselors without full licenses for a short time. A pilot program for spinal cord harm will run at three places. Growth depends on how well it works.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
10 cosponsors: 7 Democrats, 3 Republicans.
- Nov 12, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Nov 12, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services and House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a…”
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 2 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $80,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 22 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Jason Crow, who sponsored the bill, received $218,840 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Votevets Action Fund, Inc. — $50,000 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
- Vet Centers — VA offices that help war fighters with counseling and support care
- mental health workers — Doctors, counselors, and therapists who help people with emotional and mental health
- licenses — Official papers that say someone can work in a job
- spinal cord harm — Damage to the spine that can affect movement and feeling
- 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.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (21,492 characters) on Aug 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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