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H.R. 1107119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) · 28 active : 13 Republicans, 15 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate12 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 15, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProtecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025
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This bill permanently authorizes certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care professionals to use telemedicine to deliver, distribute, or dispense controlled substances that are prescription drugs to patients who are eligible for VA health care, regardless of whether the health care professional has conducted an in-person medical examination. The health care professional must be (1) authorized to prescribe the basic class of such controlled substance under an active, current, full, and unrestricted license or certification; (2) acting in the usual course of professional practice; and (3) delivering, distributing, or dispensing the substance for a legitimate medical purpose.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
House
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Health · HouseReported by · Markup by · Hearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Health care coverage and access
- Health personnel
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Prescription drugs
- Veterans' medical care
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 12Swing 70–100
- 70Middle 30–70
- 18Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
28 activeShow all 28 cosponsors
- David G. Valadao (R-CA-22)
- Donald G. Davis (D-NC-1)
- Harold Rogers (R-KY-5)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2)
- Joe Neguse (D-CO-2)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA-41)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1)
- Sanford D. Bishop (D-GA-2)
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2)
- Joe Wilson (R-SC-2)
- Pat Fallon (R-TX-4)
- Robert P. Bresnahan (R-PA-8)
- Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
- Scott Franklin (R-FL-18)
- Dina Titus (D-NV-1)
- Tim Moore (R-NC-14)
- Derek Tran (D-CA-45)
- Josh Harder (D-CA-9)
- Christopher R. Deluzio (D-PA-17)
- Thomas R. Suozzi
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
