Department of Veterans Affairs Claim Sharks Effective Warnings Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2344 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2344

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve warnings about 
potential predatory practices regarding individuals acting as agents or 
attorneys in the preparation, presentation, or prosecution of veterans 
                    claims, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 17, 2025

  Mr. Whitehouse (for himself, Mr. King, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. Welch) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve warnings about 
potential predatory practices regarding individuals acting as agents or 
attorneys in the preparation, presentation, or prosecution of veterans 
                    claims, 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 ``Department of Veterans Affairs Claim 
Sharks Effective Warnings Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVE WARNINGS ABOUT POTENTIAL PREDATORY PRACTICES REGARDING 
              AGENTS AND ATTORNEYS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5901(b) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in the matter before subparagraph (A) by 
                striking ``, each time a claimant under a law 
                administered by the Secretary logs in to a website or 
                online tool of the Department, such website or online 
                tool issues to the claimant'' and inserting ``each 
                public-facing website and online tool of the Department 
                issues'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, including 
                individuals lacking recognition by the Secretary as 
                described in subsection (a)'' after ``chapter'';
                    (C) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (D) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
            ``(E) a message discouraging veterans from sharing their 
        Department account log-in credentials or bank account log-in 
        credentials, such as usernames or passwords, with anyone.''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) The Secretary shall carry out this subsection by acting 
through the Chief Veterans Experience Officer.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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