Title: Reducing High Risk to Veterans and Veterans Services Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Reducing High Risk to Veterans and Veterans Services Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit a plan addressing the actions and outcomes identified in the 2019 High-Risk List of the Government Accountability Office regarding acquisition management, risk management, and health care improvement.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4477 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4477

  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a 
 plan to address certain high risk areas identified by the Comptroller 
   General of the United States regarding the Department of Veterans 
  Affairs in the 2019 High-Risk List of the Government Accountability 
                    Office, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 24, 2019

Mr. Pappas (for himself and Mr. Bergman) 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 submit to Congress a 
 plan to address certain high risk areas identified by the Comptroller 
   General of the United States regarding the Department of Veterans 
  Affairs in the 2019 High-Risk List of the Government Accountability 
                    Office, 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 ``Reducing High Risk to Veterans and 
Veterans Services Act''.

SEC. 2. PLAN OF THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO ADDRESS CERTAIN 
              HIGH-RISK AREAS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Plan.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, after consulting with 
the Comptroller General, shall submit to Congress a plan that addresses 
the actions and outcomes identified by the Comptroller General of the 
United States of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the 2019 High-
Risk List of the Government Accountability Office (GAO-19-157SP) 
regarding--
            (1) acquisition management; and
            (2) managing risks and improving health care.
    (b) Elements.--The plan under subsection (a) shall include the 
following:
            (1) Metrics for successfully addressing root causes of the 
        problems described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a).
            (2) Timelines and milestones the Secretary determines 
        feasible.
            (3) Obstacles to implementation of the plan that the 
        Secretary identifies.
            (4) Recommendations of the Secretary regarding legislation 
        or funding the Secretary determines necessary to implement the 
        plan.
    (c) Semiannual Updates.--Every six months during the three-year 
period beginning with submission of the plan under subsection (a), the 
Secretary shall submit an update to Congress regarding implementation 
of the plan.
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