VA must add private nursing rooms at all medical centers.
S. 778 — Lactation Spaces for Veteran Moms Act · Filed by Jacky Rosen (D-NV) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Feb 27, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill requires the VA to build private nursing rooms in every VA medical center. The work must be done within three years. Each room must have a chair, desk, and wheelchair access. It cannot be a bathroom. The VA must put up clear signs and protect privacy.
Who it affects
Women veterans and members of the public can use these rooms. They need a private, clean place to express breast milk at VA medical centers. The VA must pay for building and running these spaces.
One thing to notice
The bill lets members of the public use the nursing rooms, not only women veterans. The bill does not say what happens if the VA misses the three-year deadline.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Feb 27, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Feb 27, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- May 21, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held”
- Jul 30, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute…”
- Nov 9, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8036; text: CR S8036)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- express breast milk — To remove milk from the breast by hand or with a pump.
- VA medical center — A hospital or clinic run by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- wheelchair access — A space designed so people in wheelchairs can enter and move around.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,014 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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