Dental Care for Veterans Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish dental care in the same manner as any other medical service, and for other purposes.
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Dental Care for Veterans Act
This bill expands eligibility for veterans for dental care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Specifically, the bill makes all veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system eligible for VA-provided dental services. Currently, only veterans who have a service-connected dental issue or meet other narrow criteria are eligible for certain dental services.
The bill phases in eligibility over four years based upon existing eligibility, degree of service-connected disability or other disability, prisoner of war status, award of a Purple Heart, financial need, or VA health care eligibility.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION
- DELTA DENTAL PLANS ASSOCIATION
- PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
- DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
- DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
- DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Veterans Employment & Training Service
- Defense, Dept of (DOD)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 210: Dental Care for Veterans Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-210/
"H.R. 210: Dental Care for Veterans Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-210/.
H.R. 210, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-210/.
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