The "Major Richard Star Act" (HR 2102/S. 1032), supported by the Fleet Reserve Association (FRA), has been reintroduced in Congress to provide concurrent receipt of retirement pay and disability compensation for service members unable to complete 20 years of service due to...

Please support the NOPAIN for Veterans Act (H.R. 4509), a critical and bipartisan effort to expand veterans’ access to safer pain management options. Under current VA policy, many non-opioid pain medications are not required to be included in the VA formulary, limiting...

Please support H.R. 4837, the Written Informed Consent Act, critical legislation to strengthen protections for veterans prescribed riskier medications. Currently, the VA’s VHA Directive 1005 (Informed Consent for Long-Term Opioid Therapy) requires written informed consent...

Please support the Pay Our Troops Act, vital legislation to ensure that members of the Armed Services are paid in the event of a government shutdown. Without this protection, servicemembers on active and reserve duty, as well as the Coast Guard, Department of Defense...

The Veterans’ Assuring Critical Care Expansions to Support Servicemembers (ACCESS) Act (S.275/H.R.740) seeks to eliminate delays and bureaucratic barriers that prevent veterans from receiving timely, life-saving medical care. The bill would make existing community care...

The FRA supports the "Service Dogs Assisting Veterans (SAVES) Act" (H.R. 2605/S.1441). Too many veterans are left without the critical support needed to heal from the visible and invisible wounds of war, such as physical disabilities and PTSD. The lack of access to trained...

The bill to upgrade retired Marine Corps Maj. James Capers Jr.’s Silver Star Medal to the Medal of Honor (House Resolution 3377), backed by bipartisan lawmakers, seeks to honor the extraordinary valor of a Vietnam-era Recon Marine who risked his life to save his team...

Representative Mike Levin (CA) and Delegate Jennifer Wexton (VA) introduced the “Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act” (H.R. 1423) in the House, and Senators Jerry Moran (KS) and Richard Blumenthal (CT) introduced its Senate companion (S. 649), a bipartisan bill aimed at...

The FRA supports the “Military Spouse Hiring Act” (H.R. 2033 / S. 1027). The legislation addresses the high military spouse unemployment rate by establishing a tax credit to incentivize more employers to hire military spouses. While the national unemployment rate is at 4...