Veterans Benefits Administration Information Technology Improvement Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make such changes and improvements to the information technology system of the Veterans Benefits Administration to ensure that: (1) all original and supplemental claims for veterans educational assistance are adjudicated electronically, and (2) rules-based processing is used to make decisions with respect to such claims with little human intervention.
Requires the Secretary to reduce redundancy and inefficiencies in the use of information technology to process claims for rehabilitation programs by: (1) ensuring that payments of subsistence allowance for veterans participating in a rehabilitation program are processed and paid out of only one corporate information technology system, and (2) enhancing the information technology system supporting veterans participating in such a program to support more accurate accounting of services and outcomes.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4038 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4038
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make certain
improvements in the information technology of the Veterans Benefits
Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs to process claims
more efficiently, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 11, 2014
Mr. Flores introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make certain
improvements in the information technology of the Veterans Benefits
Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs to process claims
more efficiently, and for other purposes.
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 ``Veterans Benefits Administration
Information Technology Improvement Act of 2014''.
SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF THE VETERANS BENEFITS
ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.
(a) Processing of Certain Educational Assistance Claims.--The
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall, to the maximum extent possible,
make such changes and improvements to the information technology system
of the Veterans Benefits Administration of the Department of Veterans
Affairs to ensure that--
(1) to the maximum extent possible, all original and
supplemental claims for educational assistance under chapter 33
of title 38, United States Code, are adjudicated
electronically; and
(2) rules-based processing is used to make decisions with
respect to such claims with little human intervention.
(b) Vocational Rehabilitation Claims.--The Secretary of Veterans
Affairs shall reduce redundancy and inefficiencies in the use of
information technology to process claims for rehabilitation programs
under chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, by--
(1) ensuring that payments of subsistence allowance for
veterans participating in a rehabilitation program under such
chapter are only processed and paid out of one corporate
information technology system, in order to eliminate the
redundancy of multiple information technology payment systems;
and
(2) enhancing the information technology system supporting
veterans participating in such a program to support more
accurate accounting of services and outcomes for such veterans.
(c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit
to Congress a report on the changes made pursuant to the requirements
os subsections (a) and (b).
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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