The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously passed the VA Vaccine Act, legislation crafted by Illinois Congressman Mike Bost. The bipartisan bill expands VA’s authority to provide COVID-19 vaccines to all veterans and their caregivers. The bill is now in the hands of the Senate.

Congressman Bost says this bill was originally offered as an amendment to the new COVID relief bill.

He says the Senate was actually moving a companion bill that was almost the same. The difference is the language in the House bill that states the most needy and vulnerable veterans and their caregivers are not turned away by the VA.