A 6559 — Establishes a veterans' bill of rights
Congress · introduced 2025-03-06
Establishes a veterans' bill of rights; provides sample language for such bill of rights; requires the department of veterans' services to establish and distribute a veterans' bill of rights and to make such bill of rights available on the department's website.
Latest action: 2026-02-26 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- Michael Benedetto (—, NY-82) — sponsor · 2025-03-06
- Judy Griffin (—, NY-21) — cosponsor · 2025-03-06
- Joe Angelino (—, NY-121) — cosponsor · 2025-03-06
Action timeline
- · assembly — REFERRED TO VETERANS' AFFAIRS
- · assembly — AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO VETERANS' AFFAIRS
- · assembly — PRINT NUMBER 6559A
- · assembly — AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO VETERANS' AFFAIRS
- · assembly — PRINT NUMBER 6559B
- · assembly — REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
- · assembly — REPORTED
- · assembly — RULES REPORT CAL.225
- · assembly — ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.225
- · assembly — PASSED ASSEMBLY
- · assembly — DELIVERED TO SENATE
- · senate — REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
- · senate — DIED IN SENATE
- · senate — RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- · assembly — ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.164
- · assembly — AMENDED ON THIRD READING 6559C
- · assembly — PASSED ASSEMBLY
- · assembly — DELIVERED TO SENATE
- · senate — REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
Text versions
- Introduced · 2025-03-06 — HTML · Text
- Amendment A · 2025-05-05 — HTML · Text
- Amendment B · 2025-05-15 — HTML · Text
- Amendment C · 2026-01-12 — HTML · Text
Connected on the graph
Inbound (3)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-06 | Joe Angelino | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-03-06 | Judy Griffin | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-03-06 | Michael Benedetto | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Benedetto (—, state_lower NY-82) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Joe Angelino (—, state_lower NY-121) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Judy Griffin (—, state_lower NY-21) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-03-06 · cosponsored by Judy Griffin (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-03-06 · cosponsored by Joe Angelino (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-03-06 · sponsored by Michael Benedetto (sponsor) · sponsorship