ASSIST Act of 2025

2025-02-14

Introduced in House

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.

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