HR 1286
Simplifying Forms for Veterans Claims Act
Summary
Simplifying Forms for Veterans Claims Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to seek to enter an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to assess the forms that the VA sends to claimants. The center must submit a written assessment to the VA that includes recommendations on how the VA may make the forms clearer and more organized. The VA must implement certain recommendations in the assessment within two years after the assessment is received.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Robert Bresnahan [R-PA-8]
- Cosponsors
- 18
- Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Introduced
- 2025-02-13
- Latest action
- 2025-05-20: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-05-20: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- 2025-05-19: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-05-19: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 386 - 1 (Roll no. 133). (text: CR H2125)
- 2025-05-19: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 386 - 1 (Roll no. 133). (text: CR H2125)
- 2025-05-19: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2136-2137)