Official Summaries

Veteran Appeals Transparency Act of 2025

This bill requires the Board of Veterans Appeals to publish a weekly notice of the docket dates of the cases assigned to a board member for a decision that week. The requirement does not apply to cases that have been advanced or remanded. The notice must include a statement that a case assignment appearing on the notice does not require the board to issue a decision regarding the case during that week.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1741 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1741

     To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the online 
 publication of the docket of the Board of Veterans' Appeals, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2025

   Mr. Self introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the online 
 publication of the docket of the Board of Veterans' Appeals, 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 ``Veteran Appeals Transparency Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. BOARD OF VETERANS' APPEALS PUBLICATION OF DATES OF DOCKET 
              ACTIVITY.

    Section 7107 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Publication of Expected Actions.--(1) On a weekly basis, for 
each docket, the Board shall publish, on a website of the Department, 
notice of the docket dates of the cases assigned to a Board member for 
a decision for that week.
    ``(2) Each notice published under paragraph (1) shall include a 
statement that an assignment described in such paragraph does not 
require the Board to issue a decision regarding the case during such 
week.
    ``(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a case--
            ``(A) that has been advanced under subsection (b); or
            ``(B) remanded by the United States Court of Appeals for 
        Veterans Claims.''.
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