Title: Integrated Disability Evaluation System Accountability Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Integrated Disability Evaluation System Accountability Act of 2020
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to report on the implementation and application of the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (a joint DOD and Department of Veterans Affairs process to determine disability benefits for servicemembers).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6466 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6466

     To direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a report on the 
implementation and application of the Integrated Disability Evaluation 
                                System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 7, 2020

 Mr. Mast (for himself and Ms. Gabbard) 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 report on the 
implementation and application of the Integrated Disability Evaluation 
                                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 ``Integrated Disability Evaluation 
System Accountability Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON INTEGRATED DISABILITY EVALUATION SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
Congress a report on the findings of a study, conducted by the 
Secretary for the purposes of the report, of the implementation and 
application of the Integrated Disability Evaluation System.
    (b) Matters Included.--The report under subsection (a) shall 
include the following:
            (1) All changes to policies and procedures applicable to 
        the implementation of the Integrated Disability Evaluation 
        System from the previous disability evaluation system.
            (2) The extent to which the Integrated Disability 
        Evaluation System is the primary means of processing members of 
        the Armed Forces through the disability evaluation system 
        process.
            (3) The extent to which the military departments and the 
        Defense Health Agency coordinate--
                    (A) treatment of members of the Armed Forces;
                    (B) referrals of members of the Armed Forces to a 
                medical evaluation board;
                    (C) appointing a convening authority and staffing a 
                medical evaluation board;
                    (D) the sharing of medical documentation with a 
                medical evaluation board;
                    (E) evaluations of members of the Armed Forces for 
                initial or subsequent limited duty status; and
                    (F) a medical evaluation board referral to a 
                physical evaluation board.
            (4) The process for members of the Armed Forces to request 
        an impartial medical review or rebut medical evaluation board 
        findings.
            (5) The criteria a medical evaluation board convening 
        authority applies when considering such requests under 
        paragraph (4).
            (6) The average time to process Integrated Disability 
        Evaluation System cases by both phase and stage (as defined in 
        Department of Defense Manual 1332.18) for both the active 
        component and reserve component.
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