113 HR 1759 IH: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress quarterly reports on the timeliness in which the Department of Veterans Affairs receives certain information from other departments or agencies of the United States.
U.S. House of Representatives
2013-04-25
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1.Quarterly reports to
Congress
(a)Chapter 77 of title
38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:
7735.Quarterly
reports to Congress
(a)Not later than 30 days after the end of
each fiscal quarter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on covered
requests.
(b)Each report under subsection (a) shall include—
(1)the number of
covered requests made during the fiscal quarter covered by the report;
and
(2)the average
response time for such covered requests made during each month of such fiscal
quarter, as determined based on the period beginning on the date on which the
Secretary made the request and ending on the date on which the Secretary
determines that the request is completed.
(c)In this section, the
term covered request means a request by the Secretary to the head
of another department or agency of the United States for information required
by the Secretary in adjudicating a claim for disability compensation under
chapter 11 of this
title.
.
(b)The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter
is amended by adding after the item relating to section 7734 the following new
item:
7735. Quarterly reports to
Congress.
.