[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1302 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1302

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a deadline for 
     the certification of certain forms by regional offices of the 
                    Department of Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 2015

 Mr. Latta (for himself, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Joyce, Mr. Stivers, Mr. 
 Emmer of Minnesota, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Gibbs, Ms. 
  Bordallo, Mr. Jones, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. Barr, Ms. 
 Jenkins of Kansas, Mr. Lowenthal, Mrs. Love, Mr. Messer, Mr. DeFazio, 
 and Mr. Murphy of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which 
           was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a deadline for 
     the certification of certain forms by regional offices of the 
                    Department of Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``VA Appeals Backlog Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. DEADLINE FOR CERTIFICATION OF APPEALS FORMS BY REGIONAL OFFICES 
              OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall take such steps as may be 
necessary to ensure that when a regional office of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs receives a form known as ``VA Form 9, Appeal to Board 
of Veterans' Appeals'', or any successor form, submitted by a veteran 
to appeal a decision relating to a claim, the regional office certifies 
such form by not later than one year after the date of the receipt of 
the form.
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