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Focused Assistance and Skills Training for Veterans' Employment and Transition Success Act or the FAST VETS Act
This bill establishes conditions under which a veteran's individualized vocational rehabilitation plan (under the Veteran Readiness and Employment program) must be redeveloped. The program provides job training and employment-related services to veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Currently, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) must formulate and annually review an individualized vocational rehabilitation plan for veterans who have a serious employment handicap and have a reasonably feasible vocational goal.
The bill provides that such plan must be redeveloped with the veteran if the VA determines the achievement of the long-range rehabilitation goals for the veteran are no longer feasible due to changes in the employment handicap of the veteran and are more likely under a different plan.
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1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the "Focused Assistance and Skills Training for Veterans’ Employment and Transition Success Act" or the "FAST VETS Act".
2. Conditions under which Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall redevelop individualized vocational rehabilitation plan
Section 3107 of title 38, United States Code, is amended in subsection (b)—
(1) by striking "The Secretary shall review" and inserting "(1) The Secretary shall review";
(2) by striking the second sentence; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
(2) On the basis of such review, the Secretary shall—
(A) redevelop such plan with such veteran if the Secretary determines the achievement of the long-range rehabilitation goals for such veteran is—
(i) no longer feasible due to changes in the employment handicap of the veteran; and
(ii) likelier under a different plan formulated under subsection (a); or
(B) disapprove redevelopment of such plan if the Secretary determines such redevelopment is not appropriate.
Passed the House of Representatives September 15, 2025.Kevin F. McCumber,Clerk.