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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2137 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 38, United States Code, to limit the authority of the Secretary |
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| 6 | 6 | | of Veterans Affairs to deny the claim of a veteran for benefits under |
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| 7 | 7 | | the laws administered by such Secretary on the sole basis that such |
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| 8 | 8 | | veteran failed to appear for a medical examination associated with such |
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| 9 | 9 | | claim. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | MARCH14, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. L |
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| 13 | 13 | | UTTRELL(for himself, Mr. MCGARVEY, Mr. WEBERof Texas, and Mr. |
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| 14 | 14 | | P |
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| 15 | 15 | | FLUGER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com- |
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| 16 | 16 | | mittee on Veterans’ Affairs |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To amend title 38, United States Code, to limit the authority |
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| 19 | 19 | | of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to deny the claim |
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| 20 | 20 | | of a veteran for benefits under the laws administered |
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| 21 | 21 | | by such Secretary on the sole basis that such veteran |
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| 22 | 22 | | failed to appear for a medical examination associated |
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| 23 | 23 | | with such claim. |
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| 24 | 24 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Review Every Veterans 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Claim Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | •HR 2137 IH |
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| 32 | 32 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DENIAL OF CLAIMS FOR BENE-1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | FITS UNDER LAWS ADMINISTERED BY SEC-2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | RETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ON SOLE 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | BASIS THAT VETERAN FAILED TO APPEAR 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | FOR CERTAIN MEDICAL EXAMINATION. 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Subsection (d) of section 5103A of title 38, United 6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | States Code, is amended— 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘C |
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| 40 | 40 | | OMPENSATION 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | C |
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| 42 | 42 | | LAIMS’’ and inserting ‘‘CLAIMS FORBENEFITS’’; 9 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘treat an ex-10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | amination or opinion as being necessary to make a 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | decision on a claim for purposes of’’ and inserting 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘provide for a medical examination or obtain a med-13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ical opinion under’’; and 14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (3) by adding at the end the following new 15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | paragraph: 16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ‘‘(3) If a veteran fails to appear for a medical exam-17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ination provided by the Secretary in conjunction with a 18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | claim for a benefit under a law administered by the Sec-19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | retary, the Secretary may not deny such claim on the sole 20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | basis that such veteran failed to appear for such medical 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | examination.’’. 22 |
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