# 119-s-1992: Veterans Appeals Efficiency Act of 2025

119-s-1992, Veterans Appeals Efficiency Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-15).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1992
- Congress: 119
- Title: Veterans Appeals Efficiency Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-06-09
- Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-15

## Summary

**Efficiency in veterans appeals.** This bill would create new reporting, tracking, and procedural tools to speed decisions and make remands and docket activity more transparent while expanding some judicial review paths. - Veterans and families would see greater transparency. The Secretary would have to deliver annual reports on remand wait times, docket-advancement motions, and BVA dismissals (including death and suicide breakdowns), with the first report due within one year. - Board of Veterans' Appeals and VA staff would get new tools and rules. The Secretary would issue guidelines for advancing cases on the Board docket within one year, require tech-based tracking of remanded and pending claims, and expand the Chairman’s authority to aggregate appeals that share common legal or factual questions. - Claimants and courts would gain new routes and limits for review. The bill would expand the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims’ role in certain class-certification matters, set tolling and opt-in windows for administrative review, and allow limited remands for specific unaddressed issues. - Oversight and study requirements would guide future rulemaking. The Chairman must study common legal or factual questions within one year and the Secretary must pursue a federally funded center’s assessment on whether the Board can issue precedential decisions, with near-term deadlines for agreement and follow-up policy work.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] (D-CT), 2025-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] (R-LA), 2025-07-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] (R-MT), 2025-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Board aggregation and precedential study: benefit, low. This bill would let the Board chairman group similar appeals together using joinder, consolidation, class-style procedures, and other tools. VA must try to hire a federally funded research and development center within 30 days to study whether the Board could issue precedential decisions and to rec…
- Class-action opt-in and tolling rules: benefit, low. This bill would let claimants who have not opted out of a proposed class request VA administrative review during a special window. The window starts when the named claimant files a class-motion and ends 60 days after the later of the Court's final decision on the claim or on the class motion. If th…
- Clear rules to advance Board cases: benefit, low. This bill would require VA to publish rules within one year about how to file a motion to move a case up the Board docket. The rules must be made with the Board and VA General Counsel and must list what evidence you may submit to show why your case should be advanced.
- Court power to issue limited remands: benefit, low. This bill would allow the Court to send a case back to the Board for a limited purpose when the Board missed a legal or factual issue or gave inadequate reasons. The Court would write rules on how to ask for a limited remand, timing for the Board to act, and notice requirements. The Court would kee…
- More tracking and remand oversight: benefit, low. This bill would require VA to use technology to track many kinds of claims and errors. Tracked items would include remands, hearing cases, expeditious cases, duty-to-assist failures, supplemental claims filed after final decisions, and first notices of death (noting fiduciary status). VA would send…

## Related bills

- 119-s-4744: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
- 119-s-410: Love Lives On Act of 2025
- 119-s-199: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the…
- 119-s-1816: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025
- 119-s-1261: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- 119-s-556: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-1992 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1992)

## Related
- [119-s-4744: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4744)
- [119-s-410: Love Lives On Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-410)
- [119-s-199: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-199)
- [119-s-1816: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1816)
- [119-s-1261: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1261)
- [119-s-556: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-556)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1992 (as of 2026-07-15).