VA Regional Office Accountability Act

VA Regional Office Accountability Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include in a required annual report on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) expenditures and activities a report on each VA regional office that failed to reach administrative goals concerning the timeliness and accuracy of veterans' claims adjudication.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1824 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1824

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
    Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress an annual report on the 
   performance of the regional offices of the Department of Veterans 
                                Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 2013

   Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Lance, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Conyers, Mr. 
DeFazio, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Jones, Ms. Kuster, 
 Mr. Maffei, Mr. McIntyre, Mr. O'Rourke, Ms. Sinema, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, 
Ms. Slaughter, and Mr. Barber) 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 require the Secretary of 
    Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress an annual report on the 
   performance of the regional offices of the Department of Veterans 
                                Affairs.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``VA Regional Office Accountability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT ON PERFORMANCE OF REGIONAL OFFICES OF THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Section 7734 of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by inserting before the period 
        the following: ``and on the performance of any regional office 
        that fails to meet its administrative goals'';
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'';
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
        paragraph (3):
            ``(3) in the case of any regional office that, for the year 
        covered by the report, did not meet the administrative goal of 
        no claim pending for more than 125 days and an accuracy rating 
        of 98 percent--
                    ``(A) a signed statement prepared by the individual 
                serving as director of the regional office as of the 
                date of the submittal of the report containing--
                            ``(i) an explanation for why the regional 
                        office did not meet the goal;
                            ``(ii) a description of the additional 
                        resources needed to enable the regional office 
                        to reach the goal; and
                            ``(iii) a description of any additional 
                        actions planned for the subsequent year that 
                        are proposed to enable the regional office to 
                        meet the goal; and
                    ``(B) a statement prepared by the Under Secretary 
                for Benefits explaining how the failure of the regional 
                office to meet the goal affected the performance 
                evaluation of the director of the regional office; 
                and''.
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