Bill expands veterans benefits and fixes claims appeals.
H.R. 9237 — Take Care of America’s Veterans Act · Filed by Mike Bost (R-IL) · 30 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 10, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill lets surviving spouses remarry without losing VA money. It adds more disability pay. Guard and Reserve members can now get housing loans with 14 days of service. The bill fixes how the VA handles claims. It adds tracking systems and quality checks.
Who it affects
Veterans and their surviving spouses get more money and better claims help. Guard and Reserve members can now get housing loans.
One thing to notice
Guard and Reserve members can get housing loans with 14 days of service. This is much less service time than before. The bill stops the VA from taking away a surviving spouse's money. This happens if she or he remarries.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
30 cosponsors: 30 Republicans.
- Jun 10, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 10, 2026 — 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
33 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 35 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $14,614,642 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 17 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 98% of bills with any report.
Mike Bost, who sponsored the bill, received $845,860 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Medical Association — $5,643,000 in 2 reports
- Elevance Health, Inc. — $2,290,000 in 1 report
- Leidos Inc — $1,110,000 in 1 report
- American Trucking Associations — $720,000 in 1 report
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers — $715,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- surviving spouses — People married to veterans who have died.
- Guard and Reserve members — Military people who serve part-time, not full-time active duty.
- housing loans — Money the VA lends to veterans to buy or build homes.
- claims appeals — When a veteran asks the VA to reconsider a decision about benefits.
- quality checks — Reviews to make sure the VA handles claims the right way.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jun 11, 2026; 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 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 2026-09-18.
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