H.R. 6835 · 119th Congress

Veterans STAND Act

Introduced on Dec 18, 2025 by Jack Bergman (R-MI-1). 21 cosponsors, 11 of them from another party. Latest action (Jun 30, 2026): Subcommittee Hearings Held

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Dec 18, 2025
Cosponsors
21
11 from the other party
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
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Progress

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  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to offer annual preventative health evaluations to veterans with a spinal cord injury or disorder and increase access to assistive technologies, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Disability and paralysis
  • Disability assistance
  • Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
  • Veterans' medical care
  • Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary

The Congressional Research Service has not summarized this measure yet.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Jack BergmanR-MI-1Sponsor

Democrats · 11

Republicans · 10

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Dec 18, 2025Introduced in House
  2. Dec 18, 2025Introduced in House
  3. Dec 18, 2025 · HouseReferred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
  4. Feb 12, 2026 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  5. Jun 30, 2026 · HouseSubcommittee Hearings Held

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS3 reports
    $486.4K reported (all issues)
  2. PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA3 reports
    $307.5K reported (all issues)
  3. CURE SMA2 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  4. UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION2 reports
  5. BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION1 report
    $642K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP$20M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. ONWARD Medical, Inc.1 report
    $10K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

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  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.