HR 553referred119th Congress

BRAVE Act

Introduced Jan 16, 2025House billPolicy area: Armed Forces and National SecurityLast action Feb 20, 2025Sponsor: Robert J. Wittman(R-VA)

defenseArmed Forces and National Security

Health SubcommitteeVeterans' Affairs Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Feb 20, 2025

What the bill does

Be Ready to Assist Veterans in Extremis Act or the BRAVE Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a patient outreach system under which it must ensure that veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system and have experienced a traumatic or highly stressful event may elect to receive information and resources relating to mental health and available mental health care services. The VA must coordinate the system with the Transition Assistance Program of the Department of Defense.

Latest official action

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$480.7K

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 16, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 15, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Apr 16, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA

Jul 14, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Jul 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA

Jul 18, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Feb 20, 2025Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Health Subcommittee

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Jan 16, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in House

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Jan 16, 2025IntroReferral

Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Veterans' Affairs Committee

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Jan 16, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in House

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	$141.4K	Jul 14, 2025	2025Q2	VET
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	$141.4K	Apr 15, 2025	2025Q1	VET
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	$89.2K	Jul 18, 2025

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.