Official Summaries

Automotive Support Services to Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025 or the ASSIST Act of 2025

This bill expands the definition of medical services for purposes of veterans’ benefits to include additional medically necessary automobile adaptations. Under the bill, the Department of Veterans Affairs may provide funding for ramp and kneeling systems, lowered floors, mobility device lifts, non-articulating trailers, and ingress or egress accessibility modifications. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1364 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1364


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 20, 2025

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
    To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide clarification 
 regarding the inclusion of medically necessary automobile adaptations 
 in Department of Veterans Affairs definition of ``medical services''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Automotive Support Services to 
Improve Safe Transportation Act of 2025'' or the ``ASSIST Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION REGARDING INCLUSION OF MEDICALLY NECESSARY 
              AUTOMOBILE ADAPTATIONS IN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
              DEFINITION OF ``MEDICAL SERVICES''.

    Section 1701(6)(I) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
            ``(I) The provision of any medically necessary automobile 
        adaptations for driver or passenger use, including--
                    ``(i) ramp and kneeling systems;
                    ``(ii) raised doors or lowered floors;
                    ``(iii) raised roofs;
                    ``(iv) air conditioning;
                    ``(v) occupied and unoccupied mobility lifts;
                    ``(vi) ingress or egress accessibility 
                modifications;
                    ``(vii) wheelchair tiedowns; and
                    ``(viii) adapted seating.''.

SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN LIMITS ON PAYMENTS OF PENSION.

    Section 5503(d)(7) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``November 30, 2031'' and inserting ``September 30, 2032''.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.