S 749referred119th Congress

Justice for ALS Veterans Act of 2025

Introduced Feb 26, 2025Senate billPolicy area: Armed Forces and National SecurityLast action Feb 26, 2025Sponsor: Lisa Murkowski(R-AK)

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Veterans' Affairs Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Apr 29, 2026

What the bill does

Justice for ALS Veterans Act of 2025 This bill extends increased dependency and indemnity compensation to the surviving spouse of a veteran whom the Department of Veterans Affairs has determined died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) regardless of how long the veteran had such disease prior to death. Under current law, such compensation is paid for a service-connected disability that was rated totally disabling for a continuous period of at least eight years immediately preceding death. Under the bill, such extension of increased compensation applies retroactively to veterans who died from ALS on or after October 1, 2022.

Latest official action

Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$237.9K

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Feb 26, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 16, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA

Apr 20, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by THE ALS ASSOCIATION

Jul 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA

Jul 22, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by THE ALS ASSOCIATION

Official Congressional Actions

Apr 29, 2026Committee

Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.

Veterans' Affairs Committee

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Feb 26, 2025IntroReferral

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

Veterans' Affairs Committee

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Feb 26, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in Senate

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	$89.2K	Jul 18, 2025	2025Q2	VETMMMTAX
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	$88.6K	Apr 16, 2025	2025Q1	VETBUDCIV
THE ALS ASSOCIATION

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.