HR 5758
Enhancing Faith-Based Support for Veterans Act of 2025
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Bill overview
This bill would allow Department of Veterans Affairs chaplains to, with a patient’s consent, share their contact information with non-Department religious or faith-based organizations. Chaplains can do this after conducting a spiritual assessment of a veteran to understand their needs. The goal is to provide veterans with additional support from faith-based groups. This bill aims to enhance the support available to veterans through faith-based organizations.
Key provisions
- Chaplains can transmit patient contact information with patient consent.
- The transmission is limited to non-Department religious or faith-based organizations.
- The transmission occurs after a chaplain conducts a spiritual assessment.
- A spiritual assessment gathers information about the veteran’s spiritual needs.
- The spiritual assessment can inform the veteran’s medical treatment plan.
Who is affected
- Veterans
- Department of Veterans Affairs Chaplains
- Religious or faith-based organizations
- Patients receiving medical treatment under title 38
Notable changes
- Allows for the voluntary sharing of patient contact information.
- Specifies that the transmission must be with patient consent.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 5758
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit the voluntary transmission of patient contact information to certain religious or faith-based organizations by chaplains employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Enhancing Faith-Based Support for Veterans Act of 2025
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Subchapter III of chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section (and conforming the table of sections at the beginning of such chapter accordingly):
With respect to a patient on whom a chaplain employed by the Department has conducted a spiritual assessment, such chaplain may, at the election of the patient, transmit the contact information of such patient to a non-Department religious or faith-based organization specified by such patient.
spiritual assessmentmeans an evaluation of a patient entitled to receive medical treatment under this chapter by a chaplain employed by the Department to—
gather spiritual information about such patient; and
inform the medical treatment plan of such patient, if applicable.