S. 1068
119th Congress
Senate
Putting Veterans First Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend title 5 and title 38, United States Code, to put veteran and military families first and to provide protections for employees, benefits, and pr… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: A bill to amend title 5 and title 38, United States Code, to put veteran and military families first and to provide protections for employees, benefits, and programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 13, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Mar 13, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Lobbying activity
16
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Air Force, Dept of
- Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers)
- Army, Dept of (Other)
- Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS)
Cosponsors
21
D
Shaheen, Jeanne
D
Booker, Cory A.
D
Cortez Masto, Catherine
D
Duckworth, Tammy
D
Gallego, Ruben
D
Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
D
Heinrich, Martin
D
Hickenlooper, John W.
D
Hirono, Mazie K.
D
Kaine, Tim
D
Kelly, Mark
D
Klobuchar, Amy
D
Luján, Ben Ray
D
Merkley, Jeff
D
Padilla, Alex
D
Rosen, Jacky
I
Sanders, Bernard
D
Schiff, Adam B.
D
Van Hollen, Chris
D
Whitehouse, Sheldon
D
Wyden, Ron
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1068: Putting Veterans First Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1068/
"S. 1068: Putting Veterans First Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1068/.
S. 1068, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1068/.
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