3.0.0 242 2023-01-11T13:35:20Z 2023-01-11T13:35:20Z Senate S 2017-01-30 115 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-01-30T21:58:39Z WINGMAN Act 115 512 HR 2017-02-14 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Identical bill CRS 2017-01-30 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. IntroReferral 2017-01-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA N J000293 Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] Ron Johnson R WI 2017-01-30 True K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2017-01-30 True C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2017-01-30 True R000605 Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] Mike Rounds R SD 2017-01-30 True S001198 Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] Dan Sullivan R AK 2017-01-30 True B001236 Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR] John Boozman R AR 2017-01-30 True P000612 Sen. Perdue, David [R-GA] David Perdue R GA Alfred 2017-02-14 False T000476 Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] Thomas Tillis R NC Roland 2017-02-14 False P000603 Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY] Rand Paul R KY 2017-02-16 False T000250 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] John Thune R SD R. 2017-02-28 False B000575 Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO] Roy Blunt R MO 2017-03-06 False K000393 Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] John Kennedy R LA Neely 2017-03-13 False B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2017-06-08 False Armed Forces and National Security Administrative remedies Congressional officers and employees Department of Veterans Affairs Government information and archives Members of Congress Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs Veterans' pensions and compensation Armed Forces and National Security 00 2017-01-30 Introduced in Senate 2017-02-15T20:25:28Z Working to Integrate Networks Guaranteeing Member Access Now Act or the WINGMAN Act

This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide each veteran who submits a claim for VA benefits with an opportunity to permit a covered congressional employee in the office of the veteran's Member of Congress to have read-only access to all of the veteran's records in the Veterans Benefits Administration databases. A Member may designate up to two such covered congressional employees.

A covered congressional employee may not be recognized as an agent or attorney with respect to veterans' benefit claims.

Funds under this bill may not be used to design or administer any training for covered congressional employees.

The bill makes funds available for FY2018 through FY2021 for such congressional employee access program.

]]> WINGMAN Act Display Title WINGMAN Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to permit veterans to grant access to their records in the databases of the Veterans Benefits Administration to certain designated congressional employees, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced WINGMAN Act Short Titles as Introduced Working to Integrate Networks Guaranteeing Member Access Now Act Introduced in Senate 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s242is/xml/BILLS-115s242is.xml 2017-01-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.