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S. 1441119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
SAVES Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Thomas Tillis (R-NC) · 29 active : 6 Republicans, 22 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 342.
Where it standsBefore the Senate3 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govService Dogs Assisting Veterans Act of 2025 or the SAVES Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a five-year pilot program to award grants on a competitive basis to nonprofit entities to provide service dogs to veterans who have certain disabilities, conditions, or diagnoses (e.g., a visual impairment).
Under the program, the VA may provide up to $2 million to a nonprofit entity in a fiscal year.
The VA must provide a veterinary insurance policy to veterans who receive a service dog through a grant under the program.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Hearings by (full committee) · Referred to
Subjects
- Disability assistance
- Service animals
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Veterans' pensions and compensation
- Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 3Swing 70–100
- 56Middle 30–70
- 41Entrenched 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-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars 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
29 activeShow all 29 cosponsors
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Margaret Wood Hassan
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.
