Job training expands to spouses of disabled and fallen service members.
S. 1204 — Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act · Filed by Maggie Hassan (D-NH) · 8 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 31, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill expands a federal job training program. Spouses of disabled veterans can now use it. Spouses of service members who died on active duty can use it too. Before this bill, only disabled veterans could get these services. The program gives job training, career counseling, and help finding work.
Who it affects
Surviving spouses can now get federal job training and career help. The bill does not cost other people money.
One thing to notice
The bill expands who can get help but does not say if the program gets more money.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
8 cosponsors: 4 Democrats, 4 Republicans.
- Mar 31, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Mar 31, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- Dec 18, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent”
- Dec 18, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8895; text: CR S8895)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- active duty — Full-time work as a member of the military.
- surviving spouses — Spouses of service members who died while on active duty.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,215 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.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-18.
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