[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3843 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3843

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to publish redacted medical quality-assurance records 
 of the Department of Veterans Affairs on the Internet website of the 
                              Department.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 15, 2009

  Mr. Sestak 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 direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to publish redacted medical quality-assurance records 
 of the Department of Veterans Affairs on the Internet website of the 
                              Department.

    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 ``Transparency for America's Heroes 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RELEASE OF MEDICAL QUALITY-ASSURANCE RECORDS.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Disclosure.--Subsection (a) of section 5705 of title 
        38, United States Code, is amended by striking ``except as 
        provided in subsection (b) of this section'' and inserting ``if 
        such record or document contains identifying information 
        described in paragraph (2) of subsection (b)''.
            (2) Internet database.--Paragraph (3) of section 5705(b) of 
        title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(3) In addition to a disclosure made under paragraph (1), and 
subject to paragraph (2), not later than 30 days after a record or 
document described in subsection (a) is created, the Secretary shall 
make the record or document available on the Internet website (or 
successor protocol) of the Department in a manner that is easily 
accessible by the public.''.
    (b) Unredacted Disclosure.--Subsection (e) of section 5705 of such 
title is amended by striking ``except as provided for in subsection (b) 
of this section'' and inserting ``that contains identifying information 
described in paragraph (2) of subsection (b)''.
    (c) Prior Records.--In carrying out subsection (b)(3) of section 
5705 of title 38, United States Code, as amended by subsection (a)(2) 
of this section, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall ensure that 
records or documents described in subsection (a) of such section 5705 
that were created during the two-year period preceding the date of the 
enactment of this Act are made available on the Internet website of the 
Department.
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