Disabled Veterans Red Tape Reduction Act

Disabled Veterans Red Tape Reduction Act

This bill reauthorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide for medical disability evaluations by contract physicians who are not VA employees.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2556 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2556

   To provide for an extension of the authority of the Secretary of 
   Veterans Affairs to provide for the conduct of medical disability 
                  examinations by contract physicians.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2019

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for an extension of the authority of the Secretary of 
   Veterans Affairs to provide for the conduct of medical disability 
                  examinations by contract physicians.

    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 ``Disabled Veterans Red Tape Reduction 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO 
              PROVIDE FOR THE CONDUCT OF MEDICAL DISABILITY 
              EXAMINATIONS BY CONTRACT PHYSICIANS.

    Section 704(c) of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 (Public Law 
108-183; 38 U.S.C. 5101 note) is amended by striking ``December 31, 
2018'' and inserting ``December 31, 2020''.
                                 <all>