Advancing Uniform Transportation Opportunities for Veterans Act
Summary
Advancing Uniform Transportation Opportunities for Veterans Act or the AUTO for Veterans Act This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide (or assist in providing) an eligible veteran or service member with an additional automobile or other conveyance under the VA automobile allowance and adaptive equipment program. Currently, a veteran or service member with a specified service-connected disability or impairment may not receive more than one automobile or other conveyance under the program. The bill authorizes the additional benefit for such veterans and service members if 10 years have passed since the person last received such benefit.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Feb 25, 2021
Last action Apr 28, 2021
Floor votes
How they voted
No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
1
Committee
2
Apr 28, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
upper
Feb 25, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
upper
Feb 25, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 17 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Susan M. Collins
RRepublican
Co
Angus S. King, Jr.
IIndependent
Co
Bernard Sanders
IIndependent
Co
Catherine Cortez Masto
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher A. Coons
DDemocratic
Co
Gary C. Peters
DDemocratic
Co
Jacky Rosen
DDemocratic
Co
Joe Manchin, III
IIndependent
Co
John Boozman
RRepublican
Co
Margaret Wood Hassan
DDemocratic
Co
Mazie K. Hirono
DDemocratic
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