Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “VA Regional Office Accountability Act”.
VA Regional Office Accountability Act
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress an annual report on the performance of the regional offices of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sec. 2 Annual report on performance of regional offices of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Section 7734 of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
in the first sentence, by inserting before the period the following: “and on the performance of any regional office that fails to meet its administrative goals”;
in paragraph (2), by striking “and”;
by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and
by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph (3):
“(3) in the case of any regional office that, for the year covered by the report, did not meet the administrative goal of no claim pending for more than 125 days and an accuracy rating of 98 percent—
“(A) a signed statement prepared by the individual serving as director of the regional office as of the date of the submittal of the report containing—
“(i) an explanation for why the regional office did not meet the goal;
“(ii) a description of the additional resources needed to enable the regional office to reach the goal; and
“(iii) a description of any additional actions planned for the subsequent year that are proposed to enable the regional office to meet the goal; and
“(B) a statement prepared by the Under Secretary for Benefits explaining how the failure of the regional office to meet the goal affected the performance evaluation of the director of the regional office; and”