Bill Details
HR.1793 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-04-09 - Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Introduced Date
2025-03-03
Policy Area
Armed Forces and National Security
Committees
View committees (1)
Cosponsors
View cosponsors (20)
- Rep. Murphy, Gregory F. [R-North Carolina-3]
- Rep. Jackson, Jonathan L. [D-Illinois-1]
- Rep. Ciscomani, Juan [R-Arizona-6]
- Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank" [D-Georgia-4]
- Rep. Graves, Sam [R-Missouri-6]
- Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-Virginia-1]
- Rep. Haridopolos, Mike [R-Florida-8]
- Rep. Davis, Donald G. [D-North Carolina-1]
- Rep. Hill, J. French [R-Arkansas-2]
- Rep. Bost, Mike [R-Illinois-12]
- Rep. Barrett, Tom [R-Michigan-7]
- Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-Minnesota-1]
- Rep. Messmer, Mark B. [R-Indiana-8]
- Rep. Riley, Josh [D-New York-19]
- Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-Ohio-10]
- Rep. Kelly, Trent [R-Mississippi-1]
- Rep. King-Hinds, Kimberlyn [R-Northern Mariana Islands]
- Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-Kentucky-2]
- Rep. Pfluger, August [R-Texas-11]
- Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-Delaware]
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This bill would make it easier for veterans with service-connected disabilities to get information and help from the Department of Veterans Affairs training and rehabilitation program. It would require the VA to improve outreach, give clearer contact information, and meet more often with schools and veterans. The bill also would speed up decisions on requests to extend vocational rehabilitation benefits and require the VA to report how often those extensions are requested, approved, or denied.
- The VA would have to set up a special phone number in its Education Call Center for questions about these services.
- Each VA regional office would have to list a contact name, phone number, and email address on its website so veterans can reach someone for help.
- VA employees who provide counseling under this program would have to attend monthly question-and-answer sessions with school certifying officials, and counselors would have to give in-person briefings at schools in their area. Schools more than 150 miles away could get the briefing online.
- The VA would have to decide on requests to extend vocational rehabilitation benefits within 30 days, and it would also have to send Congress a yearly report showing how many veterans asked for extensions, how many were approved, and how many were denied.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1793 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1793
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for outreach
requirements for Department of Veterans Affairs training and
rehabilitation programs for veterans with service-connected
disabilities, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 3, 2025
Mr. Hamadeh of Arizona (for himself, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Jackson of
Illinois, Mr. Ciscomani, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Graves, Mr.
Wittman, and Mr. Haridopolos) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for outreach
requirements for Department of Veterans Affairs training and
rehabilitation programs for veterans with service-connected
disabilities, 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 ``Veterans Readiness and Employment
Transparency Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. OUTREACH REQUIREMENTS FOR DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
TRAINING AND REHABILITATION PROGRAMS FOR VETERANS WITH
SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES.
(a) VRE Contact Information.--Section 3104 of title 38, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
``(f) The Secretary shall establish a dedicated telephone number
within the Education Call Center of the Department for calls about
services provided under this chapter. Each regional office of the
Department shall include, on the website of the regional office, a
name, telephone number, and email address, through which veterans may
receive information about services provided under this chapter.''.
(b) Outreach Requirement.--
(1) In general.--Chapter 31 of title 38, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:
``Sec. 3123. Outreach requirements
``(a) Question and Answer Sessions.--The Secretary shall require
each employee of the Department whose responsibilities include
providing counseling and services under this chapter to attend a
monthly question and answer session with appropriate school certifying
officials.
``(b) Informational Briefings.--(1) The Secretary shall require
each veteran readiness and employment counselor to provide for veterans
at each educational institution located in the geographic area served
by the Regional Office where the counselor is employed an in-person
briefing about services provided under this chapter.
``(2) The Secretary may provide a briefing required under paragraph
(1) virtually in the case of an educational institution located more
than 150 miles away from the headquarters of the Regional Office.
``(c) Annual Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this section, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall
submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House
of Representatives a report on the extension of periods of vocational
rehabilitation programs under section 3105(c) of this title. Such
report shall include, for the year covered by the report--
``(1) the number of veterans who requested such an
extension;
``(2) the number of such requests that were approved; and
``(3) the number of such requests that were rejected.''.
(2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the
beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the
following new item:
``3123. Outreach requirements.''.
(c) Extension of Entitlements.--Section 3105(c) of title 38, United
States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;
(2) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) If a veteran applies for an extension under paragraph
(1), the Secretary shall approve or reject the extension by not
later than 30 days after the date on which the veteran submits
a request for the extension.''.
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