# H.R. 3400 (119th): The Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025

The Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assign a physician who has been appointed in the Veterans Health Administration to serve as a traveling physician for a period of not more than one year. Such physician must provide health care to veterans at VA facilities located in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States. Traveling physicians must coordinate with non-VA providers when necessary to ensure high quality and coordinated care for veterans receiving hospital care and medical services. The VA must provide a relocation or retention bonus to traveling physicians.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: health_workforce. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: territorial_health_access. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: travel_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans_affairs. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 266: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is an ordinary administrative health-care measure that serves a real good, veterans' access to care in underserved territories. It does not directly restrain a named evil or defend a specific justice principle beyond ordinary care. Its concerns are prudential, namely the cost of retention bonuses and the administrative design of the traveling-physician program, so 'mixed' is the prudent classification rather than 'unclear', since the summary is sufficient for a high-level judgment.
Theological note: The measure concerns the access of veterans in U.S. territories to competent medical care, which relates to the duty of justice toward those who have served and to the ordinary care of neighbors in need. It raises no direct moral question about killing, sexual corruption, or the suppression of truth, and its relevance lies mainly in the stewardship of public resources for the care of veterans.

## Recorded votes

Roll 266: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 371 · Nay 21 · Other 40.

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