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Fairness for Servicemembers and their Families Act of 2025

To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to periodically review the automatic maximum coverage under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program and the Veterans' Group Life Insurance program, and for other purposes

H.R. 970 of the 119th Congress, approved December 12, 2025, enacted as Public Law 119-54 (139 Stat. 705). The text indexed here is the law as enrolled and printed by the Government Publishing Office, in 2 sections.

All 2 sections indexed, holding 7 proposals. Each shows the Act's own words, the section they sit in, and anything that has happened since. This is the law in force, not a proposal for one.

What this law does

Service members can buy life cover. This orders regular reviews of the top amount.

This is a law. Both houses of Congress passed it. It was signed on December 12, 2025. It is in force now.

Its number is Public Law 119-54. It started out as the bill H.R. 970.

It has 2 parts. Each part is called a section. Pick one below to see what it says.

2
sections indexed
7
proposals recorded
0
actions tracked
1
page in the Statutes at Large
How much of the Act is indexed

One cell per section, filled once it has been broken into proposals.

All 2 sections indexed. Each section page says what was taken from it and what was not.

Where the 7 proposals sit in the Act

One bar per section of the Act. Bar length compares one with another. It is not how much of a section is indexed.

How firmly the Act is worded

Grouped from each provision's own verb, quoted on its page. A statute that says shall not is making a different demand from one that says may.

A firm demand2
A recommendation5
A suggestion or a possibility0
How to cite this
  1. The document itself

    Fairness for Servicemembers and their Families Act of 2025, Public Law 119-54, 139 Stat. 705 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ54/html/PLAW-119publ54.htm

  2. This page

    Fairness for Servicemembers and their Families Act of 2025, indexed section by section. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/fairness-servicemembers-their-families-act-2025/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

Cite the document when the claim is about what the document says. Cite this page when the indexing, the wording or the record of what has happened is what is being relied on.

How the Chapter List Was Built

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