Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/38/7731
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38 USC § 7731 - Establishment
The Secretary shall carry out a quality assurance program in the Veterans Benefits Administration. The program may be carried out through a single quality assurance division in the Administration or through separate quality assurance entities for each of the principal organizational elements (known as “services”) of the Administration.
The Secretary shall ensure that any quality assurance entity established and operated under subsection (a) is established and operated so as to meet generally applicable governmental standards for independence and internal controls for the performance of quality reviews of Government performance and results.
The Secretary shall enter into a contract with an independent third-party entity to conduct, during the three-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2008, an assessment of the quality assurance program carried out under subsection (a).
Beginning on the date that is six months after the date of the enactment of the Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2008, the Secretary shall—
(Added Pub. L. 106–117, § 801(a)(1),Nov. 30, 1999, 113 Stat. 1585; amended Pub. L. 110–389, title II, § 224(a),Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4157.)
The date of the enactment of the Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2008 and the date of the enactment of this subsection, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), (4)(A), (5), mean the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–389, which was approved Oct. 10, 2008.
Pub. L. 106–117, title VIII, § 801(b),Nov. 30, 1999, 113 Stat. 1586, provided that: “Subchapter III [now Subchapter II] of chapter 77 of title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect at the end of the 60-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 30, 1999].”