Servicemember Medical Evaluations Review Act

Servicemember Medical Evaluations Review Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to conduct a review of, and report to the congressional defense committees on, the backlog of pending cases in DOD's Integrated Disability Evaluation System.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2076 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2076

     To direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a review of the 
  Integrated Disability Evaluation System of the Armed Forces and to 
              submit to Congress a report on such system.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2013

Mr. Kline (for himself, Mr. Walz, Mrs. Bachmann, Mr. Peterson, and Mr. 
   Ellison) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
     To direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a review of the 
  Integrated Disability Evaluation System of the Armed Forces and to 
              submit to Congress a report on such system.

    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 ``Servicemember Medical Evaluations 
Review Act''.

SEC. 2. REVIEW OF INTEGRATED DISABILITY EVALUATION SYSTEM.

    (a) Review.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a review of the 
backlog of pending cases in the Integrated Disability Evaluation 
System.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on 
Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
on the review under subsection (a). Such report shall include the 
following:
            (1) The number of pending cases that exist as of the date 
        of the report, listed by military department, component, and, 
        with respect to the National Guard, State.
            (2) As of the date of the report, the average time it takes 
        to process a case in the Integrated Disability Evaluation 
        System.
            (3) A description of the steps the Secretary will take to 
        resolve the backlog of cases in the Integrated Disability 
        Evaluation System.
            (4) With respect to each military department, the date by 
        which the Secretary plans to resolve such backlog.
            (5) The progress and estimated cost of moving the 
        Integrated Disability Evaluation System to an integrated and 
        readily accessible electronic format that a member of the Armed 
        Forces may access and see the status of the member during each 
        phase of the system.
            (6) An assessment by the Secretary of the feasibility of 
        improving in-transit visibility of pending cases, including by 
        establishing a method of tracking a pending case when a 
        military treatment facility is assigned a packet and pending 
        case for action of a member.
    (c) Pending Case Defined.--In this section, the term ``pending 
case'' means a case where a member of the Armed Forces who, as of the 
date of the review under subsection (a), is within the Integrated 
Disability Evaluation System and has been referred to a medical 
evaluation board.
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