Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee Oversight Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Self
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Summary
Reorganizes VA advisory committees into four focused panels on veterans' health, economic transition, underserved populations, and POW/compensation/memorial affairs. This bill would create those committees with specific membership, reporting deadlines, meeting rules, and sunset dates while phasing out many older advisory panels.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
7 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
New VA committee for former POWs
This bill would create an Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War, Compensation, and Memorial Affairs to advise VA on POW care, disability compensation, burial, and memorial programs. The Secretary would appoint specified members, name a Chair, and provide staff. Members would serve without pay but could get travel and per diem. The committee would meet at least twice a year, send an annual report by July 1, and would terminate September 30, 2028 unless renewed.
New VA committee for underserved veterans
This bill would create an Advisory Committee on Veterans Special Populations to advise VA on services for women, minority, tribal, outlying-area, and other underserved veterans. The Secretary would appoint members (including at least two women veterans and two veterans from outlying areas) for staggered two-year terms and name a Chair. Members would serve without pay but could get travel and per diem, and VA would provide staff. The committee would meet at least twice a year, send an annual report by July 1, and would end on September 30, 2028 unless renewed.
New VA committee on veterans' health
This bill would create a Veterans Health Advisory Committee to advise VA on prosthetics, geriatrics, toxic exposures, mental health, and related care. The Secretary would appoint experts and a Chair for staggered two-year terms. Members would serve without pay but could get travel and per diem, and VA would provide staff. The committee would meet at least quarterly, send an annual report by July 1, and would end on September 30, 2028 unless renewed.
New committee for veterans' jobs and schools
This bill would establish a Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Advisory Committee to advise VA on education benefits, vocational rehab, employment, entrepreneurship, and transition services. The Secretary would appoint experts and a Chair for staggered two-year terms. Members would be unpaid but could receive travel and per diem, and VA would provide staff. The committee would meet at least twice a year, send an annual report to the Under Secretary by March 31, and would terminate September 30, 2028 unless renewed.
Sunset for many VA advisory committees
This bill would set a single termination date of September 30, 2026 for a long list of existing VA advisory committees. Named groups include committees on women veterans, prosthetics, readjustment, disability compensation, tribal and outlying area issues, cemeteries and memorials, education, and others. That change would reduce the number of standing advisory bodies unless Congress or VA renews them. Some committee statutes would also be changed to bar reestablishing certain advisory committees after that date.
VA must report inactive advisory committees
This bill would require the VA Secretary to send Congress a list of advisory committees that are authorized but inactive or whose authorization has lapsed. The list would be due within 30 days after the bill's enactment. The requirement would increase transparency about which advisory bodies are functionally active. The provision does not change funding or benefit rules.
Repeal of VA certification advisory law
This bill would remove the statutory authorization for the Professional Certification and Licensure Advisory Committee. If enacted, the legal basis for that advisory body would be deleted. The change would not add funding or change benefit formulas. It would mostly affect stakeholders who used that committee to engage with VA on professional credentialing.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Self
TX • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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