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<meta><dc:title>119 HR 970 ENR: To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to periodically review the automatic maximum coverage under the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance program and the Veterans’ Group Life Insurance program, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>970</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="119">One Hundred Nineteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to periodically review the automatic maximum coverage under the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance program and the Veterans’ Group Life Insurance program, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d229e62" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/970/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Fairness for Servicemembers and their Families Act of 2025</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d229e72" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/970/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>PERIODIC REVIEW OF AUTOMATIC MAXIMUM COVERAGE UNDER SERVICEMEMBERS’ GROUP LIFE INSURANCE AND VETERANS’ GROUP LIFE INSURANCE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2b82b7-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/970/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t38/ch19/schIII">Subchapter III of chapter 19 of title 38, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new section:<quotedContent><section class="centered fontsize12" id="y1d2bf7e8-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" style="-uslm-lc:I650165"><num class="fontsize12" value="1980B">“§ 1980B.</num><heading class="fontsize12"> Periodic review of automatic maximum coverage</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2c1ef9-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">“(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>On January 1, 2026, and every five years thereafter, the Secretary shall—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2c1efa-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">“(1) </num><content>complete a review of how the amount specified in section 1967(a)(3)(A)(i) compares to the amount described in subsection (b); and</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2c1efb-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">“(2) </num><content>submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate the results of the review, which may serve as a guide for coverage increases within the existing administrative incremental structure.</content></paragraph>
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<subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2c1efc-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">“(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Amount Described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The amount described in this subsection is the amount equal to—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2c1efd-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">“(1) </num><content>$500,000; multiplied by</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2c1efe-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">“(2) </num><content>the average percentage by which the Consumer Price Index changed during the five fiscal years preceding the review under subsection (a).</content></paragraph>
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<subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2c1eff-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">“(c) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Consumer Price Index Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, the term ‘<term>Consumer Price Index</term>’ means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.”</content></subsection>
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<subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y1d2c4610-c75a-11f0-8d0f-093c02001766" identifier="/us/bill/119/hr/970/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 19 of such title <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 1980A the following new item:<quotedContent><toc>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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