Veterans Benefits Fairness and Transparency Act of 2020

United States116th CongressHR-7795House of Representatives
Updated: Sep 23, 2020

Summary

Veterans Benefits Fairness and Transparency Act of 2020 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to publish on its website the disability benefit questionnaire forms for non-VA medical providers submitting evidence regarding a disability of a claimant for purposes of VA benefits. If the VA updates the questionnaire form, previous versions of the form filed by claimants must be accepted for up to one year after the form was updated. The VA may waive interagency approval processes required to approve a modification to a form if such requirement applies by reason of the form being made public on the website as required by the bill. The Inspector General of the VA must, through 2026, annually report on the use of such forms.

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S-4412: Veterans Benefits Fairness and Transparency Act of 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  1. Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.

  2. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4685)

    House of Representatives

  3. Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

    House of Representatives

  4. Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

    Senate