S. 1134 119th Congress Senate

Strengthening VA Patient Advocacy for Rural Veterans Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the Office of Patient Advocacy of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Introduced: March 26, 2025 Introduced by: Kevin Cramer Republican · North Dakota See on congress.gov

Armed Forces and National Security

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Mar 26, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Veterans' Affairs Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 8

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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Bodies those filers lobbied

Defense, Dept of (DOD)
8 filings
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8 filings
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
8 filings
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
8 filings
SENATE
8 filings
Small Business Administration (SBA)
8 filings
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
8 filings
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
8 filings

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Cosponsors 1

Rosen, Jacky

Nevada · Mar 26, 2025

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1134: Strengthening VA Patient Advocacy for Rural Veterans Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1134/

MLA

"S. 1134: Strengthening VA Patient Advocacy for Rural Veterans Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1134/.

Bluebook (legal)

S. 1134, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1134/.

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[S. 1134: Strengthening VA Patient Advocacy for Rural Veterans Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1134/)