Department of Veterans Affairs Therapeutic Medical Physicist Pay Cap Relief Act of 2026

This bill changes federal law on how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hires, grades and pays therapeutic and diagnostic medical physicists. It adds both jobs to the list of VA health positions appointed under title 38. To be hired, a person would need to complete a post-graduate clinical training program and be board certified in the field by a body the VA approves. The bill places these physicists in the same pay system the VA uses for physicians, podiatrists and dentists. Within one year, the VA would report to Congress on the effects of the pay change, including costs to the Department.

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Sponsors

• Tim Kaine Democrat sponsor
• 2 cosponsors