The bill
LINC VA Act
S. 3303, 119th Congress — read as touching Hospitals & Health Systems.
LINC VA Act
Download PDFBill ID: 119/s/3303
Last Updated: March 25, 2026
Sponsored by
Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
ID: S001198
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The sponsor
Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
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The money
$1,129,097 raised
30 itemised contributions to this sponsor, pulled from FEC filings.
The alignment
67% match to Project 2025
This bill's text tracks the "Introduction" section, p. 676-678 of the Mandate for Leadership.
Bill's Journey to Becoming a Law
Track this bill's progress through the legislative process
Latest Action
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
March 17, 2026
Introduced
Committee Review
Floor Action
📍 Current Status
Next: The full Senate will vote on whether to pass the bill.
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Passed Senate
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House Review
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Passed Congress
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Presidential Action
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Became Law
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Bill Summary
Another bill, another exercise in bureaucratic doublespeak and legislative theater. Let's dissect this mess.
**Main Purpose & Objectives**
The LINC VA Act (S 3303) claims to establish a pilot program for community integration platforms to coordinate services for veterans. In reality, it's just another attempt to create a new bureaucracy, because what every veteran needs is more paperwork and red tape.
**Key Provisions & Changes to Existing Law**
This bill creates a new "community integration platform" that will supposedly connect veterans with various services, including healthcare, housing, job training, and more. It also requires the collection of social determinants of health data from veterans using standardized risk assessments. Because what's missing in veteran care is more data collection.
The bill also mandates coordination with existing community networks, state Medicaid programs, and other entities, because who doesn't love a good game of bureaucratic telephone?
**Affected Parties & Stakeholders**
Veterans, obviously, are the supposed beneficiaries of this bill. But let's be real, they're just pawns in a larger game of government largesse. The real stakeholders are:
* The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which gets to expand its bureaucracy and justify more funding. * Healthcare providers, who will get paid for providing services through this new platform. * State Medicaid programs, which might see an influx of new "clients" (read: revenue streams). * Lobbyists and special interest groups, who will no doubt find ways to exploit this new program for their own gain.
**Potential Impact & Implications**
This bill is a classic case of treating the symptoms rather than the disease. Instead of addressing the root causes of veteran healthcare issues (e.g., inadequate funding, inefficient bureaucracy), it creates more complexity and overhead.
The potential impact? More bureaucratic red tape, increased costs, and a further entrenchment of the VA's reputation as a slow-moving, ineffective behemoth. And for veterans? Maybe, just maybe, they'll get some marginally better services, but at what cost?
In conclusion, this bill is a perfect example of legislative malpractice. It's a cynical attempt to appear concerned about veteran welfare while actually perpetuating the same old bureaucratic inefficiencies that have plagued the VA for decades.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go treat some actual patients – not just the symptoms of government incompetence.
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💰 Campaign Finance Network
Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Congress 119 • 2024 Election Cycle
Total Contributions
$1,129,097
18 donors
PACs
$91,600
Organizations
$1,035,500
Committees
$0
Individuals
$0
1
SEND IN THE SEAL PAC
$60,000
2
THE LINCOLN CLUB OF ORANGE COUNTY FEDERAL PAC
$25,000
3
WINRED
$6,600
1
MACLEAN-FOGG COMPANY
$141,300
2
PASCUA YAQUI TRIBE
$82,600
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PECHANGA TRIBE OF LUISENO MISSION INDIANS
$82,600
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ONEIDA INDIAN NATION
$82,600
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SHAKOPEE MDEWAKANTON SIOUX COMMUNITY
$82,600
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SOBOBA BAND OF LUISENO INDIANS
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$82,600
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AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS
$77,800
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MISSISSIPPI BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS
$77,800
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POARCH BAND OF CREEK INDIANS
$77,800
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AK-CHIN INDIAN COMMUNITY
$41,300
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TIGUA INDIAN RESERVATION
$41,300
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TUNICA-BILOXI TRIBE OF LOUISIANA
$41,300
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MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS
$41,300
No committee contributions found
No individual contributions found
Cosponsors & Their Campaign Finance
This bill has 1 cosponsors. Below are their top campaign contributors.
Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
ID: H001076
Top Contributors
10
1
WOODS, ANDREW L.
LIBERTY PARTNERS GROUP • ATTORNEY
IndividualFORT MYERS, FL
$4,300
Jun 29, 2023
2
WOODS, ANDREW L.
IndividualFORT MYERS, FL
$3,900
Jul 12, 2023
3
BEKENSTEIN, ANITA
NOT EMPLOYED • NOT EMPLOYED
IndividualWAYLAND, MA
$3,300
Oct 4, 2023
4
BEKENSTEIN, JOSH
NOT EMPLOYED • RETIRED
IndividualWAYLAND, MA
$3,300
Oct 4, 2023
5
HUNTER, DANIEL
SELF-EMPLOYED • PLAYWRIGHT & TEACHER
IndividualCAMBRIDGE, MA
$3,300
Dec 6, 2023
6
KLARMAN, SETH
THE BAUPOST GROUP • CEO
IndividualBOSTON, MA
$3,300
Dec 18, 2023
7
SCHWARTZ, GABRIEL
DAVIDSON KEMPNER • INVESTMENT MANAGER
IndividualBROOKLYN, NY
$3,300
Oct 16, 2023
8
SWINDELL, C. DAVID
NOT EMPLOYED • NOT EMPLOYED
IndividualBOSTON, MA
$3,300
Oct 10, 2023
9
KORN, WILLIAM T.
NSRA • RADIOLOGIST
IndividualWABAN, MA
$3,300
Mar 29, 2023
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KORN, WILLIAM T.
NSRA • RADIOLOGIST
IndividualWABAN, MA
$3,300
Mar 29, 2023
Donor Network - Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
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Total contributions: $1,140,597
Top Donors - Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
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3 PACs14 Orgs1 Committee
Industry Impact
Which industries are materially affected by specific provisions in this bill. 5 helped.
- +Hospitals & Health Systemsconfidence 0.90
Section 2(b)(1)(C) includes health care, preventive health intervention, chronic disease management, and behavioral health care as services to be coordinated via the community integration platform, which would benefit hospitals and health systems by increasing referrals and service utilization.
- +Health Insuranceconfidence 0.85
Section 2(d)(2) requires coordination with state Medicaid programs, which are health insurance programs, to integrate medical assistance with services for veterans, potentially expanding enrollment and reimbursement opportunities for Medicaid managed care plans.
- +Long-Term Care & Nursing Homesconfidence 0.80
Section 2(b)(1)(G) includes caregiving and respite care as services to be coordinated, which directly benefits long-term care providers by increasing referrals and utilization of their services through the platform.
- +Telecommunicationsconfidence 0.75
Section 2(b)(8) requires the platform to be accessible via a web-based platform and non-web-based alternatives, implying reliance on broadband and telecommunications infrastructure for access, which could drive demand for telecom services.
- +AI & Cloud Infrastructureconfidence 0.70
Section 2(b)(2) emphasizes connectivity with existing technology networks and interoperable exchange, which may involve cloud-based platforms and AI-driven data coordination tools, benefiting AI and cloud infrastructure providers.
Who funds the sponsor on these industries
For each industry this bill affects, here's what the sponsor (Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK])received from donors associated with that industry during the 2022–present cycles. Donations are not proof of intent — they are a record of who funds the people writing the law.
Industries this bill HELPS
- Telecommunications$84,333from 226 contributions
- RUTLEDGE, THOMAS M. MR.$42,993
- WATSON, DAVID MR.$15,000
- REID, THOMAS$5,000
- SCOTT, DAVE$3,000
- HAUSER, RONALD$2,682
- Health Insurance$33,049from 613 contributions
- PENBERTHY, SHANNON$10,000
- RHORER, PAULA$3,982
- ROSOMOFF, PETER$3,570
- RAUENHORST, MARSHA$2,397
- LEE, ALLEN$2,000
- Hospitals & Health Systems$22,937from 551 contributions
- GEYER, SHERRY$4,098
- SIGMON, RICHARD L. MR.$2,476
- RONGERS, DENNIS$1,302
- MILLER, ALAN B. MR.$1,297
- LEONARD, ANNE MRS.$782
- AI & Cloud Infrastructure$11,115from 18 contributions
- KARP, ALEXANDER C.$6,600
- SMITH, MADISON$2,000
- SANKAR, SHYAM$1,500
- GENT, EDWARD$539
- BALDASSERINI, MARIO$285
- from 321 contributions
- SCHMIDT, LISA MS.$2,284
- BRADLEY, MELISSA MS.$1,640
- CARPENTER, SANDRA$1,434
- SARKISYAN, HAYK$747
- BERTRAM, MARY$474
Project 2025 Policy Matches
This bill shows semantic similarity to the following sections of the Project 2025 policy document.
Introduction
Moderate67.2%
Pages: 676-678
— 643 — Department of Veterans Affairs with a growth in same-day surgical procedures and outpatient care, so has the VA, and in 2018 Congress added access to private-sector urgent care outlets as one of the VA’s health care benefits. Today, the VA operates 172 inpatient VA Medical Centers (VAMCs), which are an average of 60 years old, and 1,113 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), which are newer facilities designed to meet the needs of veterans closer to home. The VA also manages a Community Care Network (CCN) through contracts with Optum and TriWest, third-party health care administrators responsible for build- ing and maintaining a robust population of community providers to meet the needs of veterans referred for care outside of the VA system. Currently, approximately 6.4 million veterans out of 18 million nationally (and out of the 9.1 million who are enrolled) use the VA for health care; the remainder use employer-sponsored plans, Tricare, Medicare, and Medicaid. The disability benefits system evolved significantly in the years between the Cold War era and the global war on terrorism, a period when the VA enrolled large numbers of veterans from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam who were seeking disability benefits and health care. Disability compensation is the largest VA benefit, but there also are dozens of others, the next largest of which are the GI Bill and the Home Loan Guaranty. These benefits are administered through 56 Regional Benefits Offices (RBOs) and hundreds of satellite sites around the country. The Agent Orange Act of 19914 significantly expanded the scope of disability ben- efits for those who had deployed to Vietnam, and the cost of those benefits began to increase dramatically as the Vietnam generation of veterans aged and began to expe- rience adverse health conditions, some of which were presumed to have been caused by defoliant chemicals used in Southeast Asia. In 2016 and 2017, a burdensome backlog of appeals of denied disability claims from multiple wartime generations—a backlog numbering in the hundreds of thousands—led to a joint effort by the VA, Vet- eran Service Organizations (VSOs), and Congress to pass legislation that streamlined appeal processes. Implemented in 2017, this historic “good governance” success has helped the VA to reduce the number of these appeals dramatically. The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 20225 addressed adverse health outcomes presumed to be the result of veterans’ exposure to airborne toxins during the global war on terrorism and further expanded disability benefits to the most recent gen- eration of veterans. These ambitious authorities, like the 1991 authorities, have the potential to overwhelm the VA’s ability to process new disability claims and adjudicate appeals. Currently, the VA is seeking to hire large numbers of personnel to process these claims while exploring the use of an automated process to accel- erate claims reviews and decisions. The ever-present lag in the hiring and training of new employees could result in major problems with the timely adjudication of benefits well into the next Administration in 2025.
Introduction
Moderate67.2%
Pages: 676-678
— 643 — Department of Veterans Affairs with a growth in same-day surgical procedures and outpatient care, so has the VA, and in 2018 Congress added access to private-sector urgent care outlets as one of the VA’s health care benefits. Today, the VA operates 172 inpatient VA Medical Centers (VAMCs), which are an average of 60 years old, and 1,113 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), which are newer facilities designed to meet the needs of veterans closer to home. The VA also manages a Community Care Network (CCN) through contracts with Optum and TriWest, third-party health care administrators responsible for build- ing and maintaining a robust population of community providers to meet the needs of veterans referred for care outside of the VA system. Currently, approximately 6.4 million veterans out of 18 million nationally (and out of the 9.1 million who are enrolled) use the VA for health care; the remainder use employer-sponsored plans, Tricare, Medicare, and Medicaid. The disability benefits system evolved significantly in the years between the Cold War era and the global war on terrorism, a period when the VA enrolled large numbers of veterans from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam who were seeking disability benefits and health care. Disability compensation is the largest VA benefit, but there also are dozens of others, the next largest of which are the GI Bill and the Home Loan Guaranty. These benefits are administered through 56 Regional Benefits Offices (RBOs) and hundreds of satellite sites around the country. The Agent Orange Act of 19914 significantly expanded the scope of disability ben- efits for those who had deployed to Vietnam, and the cost of those benefits began to increase dramatically as the Vietnam generation of veterans aged and began to expe- rience adverse health conditions, some of which were presumed to have been caused by defoliant chemicals used in Southeast Asia. In 2016 and 2017, a burdensome backlog of appeals of denied disability claims from multiple wartime generations—a backlog numbering in the hundreds of thousands—led to a joint effort by the VA, Vet- eran Service Organizations (VSOs), and Congress to pass legislation that streamlined appeal processes. Implemented in 2017, this historic “good governance” success has helped the VA to reduce the number of these appeals dramatically. The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 20225 addressed adverse health outcomes presumed to be the result of veterans’ exposure to airborne toxins during the global war on terrorism and further expanded disability benefits to the most recent gen- eration of veterans. These ambitious authorities, like the 1991 authorities, have the potential to overwhelm the VA’s ability to process new disability claims and adjudicate appeals. Currently, the VA is seeking to hire large numbers of personnel to process these claims while exploring the use of an automated process to accel- erate claims reviews and decisions. The ever-present lag in the hiring and training of new employees could result in major problems with the timely adjudication of benefits well into the next Administration in 2025. — 644 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise In sum, the VA for the foreseeable future will experience significant fiscal, human capital, and infrastructure crosswinds and risks. Budgets are at historic highs, and with a workforce now above 400,000, the VA is contending with a lack of new veteran enrollees to offset the declining population of older veterans. Recruitment of medical and benefits personnel has become more challenging. Veterans are migrating from the northern states to the southern and western states for retirement and employment. Meanwhile, VA information technol- ogy (IT) is struggling to keep pace with the evolution of patient care and record keeping. Consequently, VA leaders in the next Administration must be wise and courageous political strategists, experienced managers to run day-to-day oper- ations more effectively, innovators to address the changing veteran landscape, and agile “fixers” to mitigate and repair systemic problems created or ignored by the present leadership team. VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (VHA) Needed Reforms l Rescind all departmental clinical policy directives that are contrary to principles of conservative governance starting with abortion services and gender reassignment surgery. Neither aligns with service-connected conditions that would warrant VA’s providing this type of clinical care, and both follow the Left’s pernicious trend of abusing the role of government to further its own agenda. l Focus on the effects of shifting veteran demographics. At least during the next decade, the VA will experience a significant generational shift in its overall patient population. Of the approximately 18 million veterans alive today, roughly 9.1 million are enrolled for VA health care, and 6.4 million of these enrollees use VA health care consistently. These 6.4 million veterans are split almost evenly between those who are over age 65 and those who are under age 65, but the share of VA’s health care dollars is spent predominantly in the over-65 cohort. That share increases significantly as veterans live longer and use the VHA system at a higher rate. VHA enrollments of new users are increasingly at risk of being exceeded by the deaths of current enrollees, primarily because significant numbers of the Vietnam generation are reaching their life expectancy. The generational transition from Vietnam-era veterans to post-9/11 veterans will take several years to complete. The ongoing demographic transition is a catalyst for needed assessments of how the VA can improve the delivery of care to a numerically declining and differently dispersed national population
Introduction
Moderate67.0%
Pages: 679-681
— 646 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise 3. Section 121 (developing and administering an education program that teaches veterans about their health care options available from the Department of Veterans Affairs). 4. Section 152 (returning the Office for Innovation of Care and Payment to the Office of Enterprise Integration with a joint governance process set up with the VHA). 5. Section 161 (overhauling Family Caregiver Program expansion, which has gone poorly, so that it focuses on consistency of eligibility and awareness that the most severely wounded or injured may require the program indefinitely). l Require the VHA to report publicly on all aspects of its operation, including quality, safety, patient experience, timeliness, and cost-effectiveness, using standards similar to those in the Medicare Accountable Care Organization program so that the government may monitor and achieve continuous improvement in the VA system more effectively. l Encourage VA Medical Centers to seek out relevant academic and private- sector input in their communities to improve the overall patient experience. Budget l Conduct an independent audit of the VA similar to the 2018 Department of Defense (DOD) audit to identify IT, management, financial, contracting, and other deficiencies. l Assess the misalignment of VHA facilities and rising infrastructure costs. The VHA operates 172 inpatient medical facilities nationally that are an average of 60 years old. Some of these facilities are underutilized and inadequately staffed. Facilities in certain urban and rural areas are seeing significant declines in the veteran population and strong competition for fresh medical staff. In 2018, Congress authorized an Asset Infrastructure Review (AIR) of national VHA medical markets to provide insight into where the VA health care budget should be responsibly allocated to serve veterans most effectively. However, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee lacked the political will to act on the White House’s nominations of commission members, and this ultimately led to termination of the AIR process. The next Administration should seek out agile, creative, and politically acceptable operational solutions to this aging infrastructure status quo,
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