Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-06-26Topic: criminal justice

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Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2025 This bill establishes a new federal criminal offense for knowingly executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud an individual of veterans' benefits, or in connection with obtaining veteran's benefits for an individual. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both.

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Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2025-06-26	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.	refer
2025-06-26		Introduced in House	introduce
2025-06-26		Introduced in House	introduce

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