Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6047 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6047

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs to increase the dollar amounts for the payment of 
     certain disability compensation and dependency and indemnity 
       compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2025

Mr. Barrett (for himself, Mr. Bost, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Ciscomani, Mrs. 
 Radewagen, Ms. King-Hinds, Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia, Mr. 
  Hill of Arkansas, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Wittman, and Mrs. Miller-Meeks) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs to increase the dollar amounts for the payment of 
     certain disability compensation and dependency and indemnity 
       compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson 
Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN RATES OF CERTAIN DISABILITY COMPENSATION AND 
              DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION UNDER LAWS 
              ADMINISTERED BY SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Increase to Rates of Wartime Disability Compensation.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1114 of title 38, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(u) In the case of a veteran eligible for a monthly aid and 
attendance allowance under subsection (r) or subsection (t) of this 
section, the Secretary shall, in addition to the total amount of 
compensation for which the veteran is eligible under this section, pay 
the veteran a supplemental monthly allowance at the rate of $833.33.''.
            (2) Effective date; applicability.--Subsection (u) of such 
        section (as added by paragraph (1)) shall take effect on 
        December 1, 2026, and shall apply to months beginning on or 
        after such date.
    (b) Increase to Rates of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation.--
Section 5312 of such title is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(d)(1) Whenever there is an increase in benefit amounts payable 
under title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) as a 
result of a determination made under section 215(i) of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 415(i)), the Secretary shall, effective on the date of such 
increase in benefit amounts, increase the dollar amounts in effect for 
the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation by the Secretary 
under paragraph (1) and paragraph (3) of section 1311(a) of this title, 
as such amounts were in effect immediately before the date of such 
increase in benefit amounts payable under title II of the Social 
Security Act, by a percentage equal to the sum of--
            ``(A) the percentage by which such benefit amounts are 
        increased; and
            ``(B) one percent.
    ``(2) Whenever there is an increase under paragraph (1) in amounts 
in effect for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation, the 
Secretary shall publish such amounts, as increased pursuant to such 
paragraph, in the Federal Register at the same time as the material 
required by section 215(i)(2)(D) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
415(i)(2)(D)) is published by reason of a determination under section 
215(i) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)).
    ``(3) The requirement to increase the amounts in effect for the 
payment of dependency and indemnity compensation by the Secretary 
pursuant to paragraph (1) shall--
            ``(A) take effect on December 1, 2026, and shall apply with 
        respect to months beginning on or after such date; and
            ``(B) terminate after the date on which the fifth increase 
        to such amounts pursuant to such paragraph occurs.''.

SEC. 3. MODIFICATION OF WAIVERS OF FEES COLLECTED FOR HOUSING LOANS 
              GUARANTEED, INSURED, OR MADE BY THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS.

    Section 3729(c) of such title is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``A fee'' and inserting 
        ``Subject to paragraph (2), a fee'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (4); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
        paragraphs:
    ``(2) During the period beginning on the date of the enactment of 
the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 
2025 and ending on September 30, 2035, a fee may be collected under 
this section--
            ``(A) for a subsequent loan (as such term is defined in 
        subsection (b)); and
            ``(B) from a veteran who is receiving compensation (or who, 
        but for the receipt of retirement pay or active service pay, 
        would be entitled to receive compensation) on the basis of a 
        disability rated at 70 percent or less.
    ``(3) The authority under paragraph (2) shall take effect on August 
1, 2026, and shall apply with respect to months beginning on or after 
such date.''.
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