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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1623 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans 

Affairs to make publicly available certain information about pending 

and completed claims for compensation under the laws administered 

by the Secretary, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 18, 2013 

Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD (for herself, Mr. COOK, Mr. RUIZ, and Ms. KUSTER) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make publicly available 

certain information about pending and completed claims 

for compensation under the laws administered by the 

Secretary, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘VA Claims Efficiency 

5 Through Information Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN INFORMATION 

2 ABOUT PENDING AND COMPLETED CLAIMS 

3 FOR COMPENSATION UNDER THE LAWS AD4 MINISTERED BY THE SECRETARY OF VET5 ERANS AFFAIRS. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 51 of title 

7 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 

8 the following new section: 

9 ‘‘§ 5109C. Information about pending and completed 

10 claims 

11 ‘‘(a) AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.—The Sec12 retary shall maintain on the Internet website of the De13 partment publicly accessible information about pending 

14 and completed claims for compensation under chapter 11 

15 of this title. Such information shall include each of the 

16 following: 

17 ‘‘(1) For each regional office— 

18 ‘‘(A) the average number of days between 

19 the date of the submittal of a claim and the 

20 date of the decision with respect to the claim 

21 for each of the preceding 3-month and one-year 

22 period; 

23 ‘‘(B) the average number of days such a 

24 claim is pending during the preceding 3-month 

25 and one-year periods; 


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1 ‘‘(C) the quality and accuracy rating of the 

2 claims adjudication process during the pre3 ceding 3-month and one-year periods; 

4 ‘‘(D) the number of claims pending; 

5 ‘‘(E) the number of pending claims that 

6 have been pending for more than 125 days; and 

7 ‘‘(F) the number of claims completed dur8 ing— 

9 ‘‘(i) the current month, to date; 

10 ‘‘(ii) the month preceding current 

11 month; 

12 ‘‘(iii) the current calendar year, to 

13 date; and 

14 ‘‘(iv) the calendar year preceding the 

15 current calendar year; and 

16 ‘‘(2) For each medical condition for which a 

17 claim for compensation is submitted— 

18 ‘‘(A) the average number of days between 

19 the date of the submittal of a claim relating to 

20 such medical condition and the date of the deci21 sion with respect to the claim for each of the 

22 preceding 3-month and one-year period; 

23 ‘‘(B) the average number of days such a 

24 claim is pending during the preceding 3-month 

25 and one-year periods; 


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1 ‘‘(C) the quality and accuracy rating of the 

2 claims adjudication process as applied to claims 

3 relating to such medical condition during the 

4 preceding 3-month and one-year periods; 

5 ‘‘(D) the number of pending claims relat6 ing to such condition; 

7 ‘‘(E) the number of such pending claims 

8 that have been pending for more than 125 days; 

9 and 

10 ‘‘(F) the number of claims relating to such 

11 medical condition completed during— 

12 ‘‘(i) the current month, to date; 

13 ‘‘(ii) the month preceding current 

14 month; 

15 ‘‘(iii) the current calendar year, to 

16 date; and 

17 ‘‘(iv) the calendar year preceding the 

18 current calendar year. 

19 ‘‘(b) UPDATES.—The Secretary shall update the in20 formation on the website under subsection (a) not less fre21 quently than once every seven days.’’. 

22 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

23 at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding 


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1 at the end of the items relating to such subchapter the 

2 following new item: 

‘‘5109C. Information about pending and completed claims.’’. 

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