H.R. 2077 · Where this bill is now
In committee
Introduced in the House, sent to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Mar 11, 2025
What this bill does
In plain words · AI-written from the official summaryVA creates family support program for veterans
The bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to set up a new Veteran Family Resource Program that helps address health and wellness challenges affecting veterans and their families. The VA would appoint at least one family coordinator in each of its regional service areas to act as a point person connecting veterans, their families, and caregivers with VA and community resources. The VA would also survey disabled veterans and their families regularly to understand what they need.
How it affects you
If you're a veteran or a family member of one, this program could help you find services and resources more easily through a dedicated coordinator at your VA medical center. Caregivers and survivors of veterans would also have access to these connections. The impact depends on how the program is staffed and which medical centers it reaches over time.
Read the official summary (Introduced in House, Mar 11, 2025)
Helping Heroes Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish the Veteran Family Resource Program to address social determinants of health challenges experienced in veterans’ family units and ensure veterans and their families have access to services and resources to support wellness within the family units.
In implementing the program, the VA must (1) appoint at least one family coordinator in each Veterans Integrated Service Network (regional VA health care administrative areas), and (2) ensure adequate staffing and resources to ensure family coordinators are able to carry out their duties and functions. Under the bill, a family coordinator’s function is generally to serve at a VA medical center as a point person regarding VA and community resources for veterans, their families, and caregivers and survivors of veterans.
The VA may expand the program to additional medical centers as appropriate.
Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this bill, and not less frequently than once every five years after, the VA must survey disabled veterans and their families to identify and better understand their needs.
Written by AI (Claude) using only the official summary by the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress’s nonpartisan research staff. It can miss nuance, so check the official summary and the bill text for details.
1st SessionH. R. 2077
A BILL
Helping Heroes Act
Sponsor: Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-3) · Introduced Mar 11, 2025 · Armed Forces and National Security · 1 version of the text
Sources: Congress.gov actions and votes · bill text from GovInfo · latest official action Mar 31, 2025: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.”