Board of Veterans Appeals Annual Report Transparency Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6698 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6698

    To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Board of 
Veterans' Appeals to include in its annual report an identification of 
the factors contributing to untimely disposition and remand of appeals, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 2025

   Mr. Self 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 require the Board of 
Veterans' Appeals to include in its annual report an identification of 
the factors contributing to untimely disposition and remand of appeals, 
                        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 ``Board of Veterans Appeals Annual 
Report Transparency Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO UNTIMELY DISPOSITION 
              AND REMAND OF APPEALS.

    Section 7101(d) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(F) by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (2)(G) by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) in paragraph (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(H) with respect to cases pending before the 
                Board under the new appeals system (as defined in 
                section 6 of the Veterans Appeals Improvement and 
                Modernization Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-55; 131 Stat. 
                1127)) during that year that were not disposed of in a 
                timely manner (as required by section 7101(a) of this 
                title) by the end of that year, an identification by 
                the Chairman of the factors contributing to the 
                untimely disposition of such cases and, for each factor 
                so identified, the number and percentage of such cases 
                to which that factor contributed; and
                    ``(I) with respect to cases pending before the 
                Board (whether under the new or legacy appeals system) 
                during that year that were remanded during that year, 
                an identification by the Chairman of the factors 
                contributing to the remand of such cases and, for each 
                factor so identified, the number and percentage of such 
                cases to which that factor contributed.''.
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