To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress quarterly reports on the timeliness in which the Department of Veterans Affairs receives certain information from other departments or agencies of the United States.

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to submit to Congress quarterly reports on the number of, and average response time to, requests made by the Secretary to the head of another federal department or agency for information required in adjudicating a claim for veterans' disability compensation.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1759 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1759

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
    Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress quarterly reports on the 
timeliness in which the Department of Veterans Affairs receives certain 
  information from other departments or agencies of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2013

Mr. Ruiz (for himself, Mr. Cardenas, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Barber, Mrs. 
  Negrete McLeod, Mr. Takano, and Mr. Cook) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
    Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress quarterly reports on the 
timeliness in which the Department of Veterans Affairs receives certain 
  information from other departments or agencies of the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. QUARTERLY REPORTS TO CONGRESS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 77 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 7735. Quarterly reports to Congress
    ``(a) Reports.--Not later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal 
quarter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on covered 
requests.
    ``(b) Matters Included.--Each report under subsection (a) shall 
include--
            ``(1) the number of covered requests made during the fiscal 
        quarter covered by the report; and
            ``(2) the average response time for such covered requests 
        made during each month of such fiscal quarter, as determined 
        based on the period beginning on the date on which the 
        Secretary made the request and ending on the date on which the 
        Secretary determines that the request is completed.
    ``(c) Covered Request Defined.--In this section, the term `covered 
request' means a request by the Secretary to the head of another 
department or agency of the United States for information required by 
the Secretary in adjudicating a claim for disability compensation under 
chapter 11 of this title.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by adding after the item relating to section 
7734 the following new item:

``7735. Quarterly reports to Congress.''.
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