HR 3854
Passed a chamber
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to produce a plan for using automation tools to process veterans' benefit claims, plus annual reports on veterans' causes of death and changes to how certain claims and documents are handled.
Official title: Modernizing All Veterans and Survivors
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
09-JUN-2025
Referred
09-JUN-2025
Approved by committee
23-JUL-2025
Reported
09-SEP-2025
On the calendar
09-SEP-2025
Passed
15-SEP-2025
Senate
Received
16-SEP-2025
- Requires the VA Secretary to submit, within one year, a plan for making automation tools available to VA offices that process benefit claims.
- Describes the tools as technology that retrieves service and health records, compiles claim evidence, offers automated decision support, shares information between federal agencies, and helps draft claim correspondence.
- Sets priority for the Pension and Fiduciary Service, the Education Service, certain Veterans Benefits Administration program offices, the Debt Management Center, and the Board of Veterans' Appeals.
- Requires an annual VA report on deaths among veterans, including primary and secondary causes and manner of death, with this reporting requirement ending five years after enactment.
- Requires VA to route increases in child dependency compensation and child educational assistance to claims processors within one year, and to submit a plan to ensure documents in the Veterans Benefits Management System are correctly labeled.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (09-JUN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 15-SEP-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Veterans' Affairs Committee (House)
- Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee
- Veterans' Affairs Committee (Senate)
Armed Forces and National Security
No cosponsors.