PRO Veterans Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The PRO Veterans Act combines VA budget oversight with a customer-experience reform. For three years, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs must provide quarterly in-person briefings to congressional veterans and appropriations committees on the VA budget and any funding shortfalls. The bill also restricts critical skill incentive payments for VA Central Office Senior Executive Service employees and creates a Veterans Experience Office in the Office of the Secretary.
Who Benefits and How
Congressional veterans affairs committees and appropriations committees benefit from recurring in-person budget briefings and shortfall explanations. Veterans and VA beneficiaries benefit because the Veterans Experience Office must collect feedback, identify service barriers, track customer-experience data, and recommend improvements across VA benefits and services.
VA field office senior executives may benefit because the Central Office incentive restriction does not apply the same way to employees whose duties are partly outside headquarters. Survey vendors, customer-experience contractors, and consultants may benefit if VA uses outside support to collect and analyze veterans' feedback.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs and VA senior leadership must prepare quarterly briefings, explain shortfalls, and report requested information to Congress. VA Central Office SES employees bear a compensation burden because the bill restricts critical skill incentive payments for headquarters positions. Department of Veterans Affairs administrative staff, VA program offices, and VA program divisions must stand up and operate the Veterans Experience Office.
Key Provisions
- Requires quarterly in-person VA budget and shortfall briefings for three years.
- Requires VA to provide additional budget information requested by congressional committees.
- Restricts critical skill incentive payments for VA Central Office SES positions.
- Establishes a Veterans Experience Office led by a Chief Veterans Experience Officer.
- Directs the new office to collect veteran feedback, analyze service barriers, and recommend customer-experience improvements.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Enhances oversight of VA budgeting through quarterly briefings, restricts executive bonuses at VA Central Office, and establishes a Veterans Experience Office to improve customer service
Key Policy Areas
Veterans Affairs, Government Administration, Federal Budget
Primary Purpose
Enhances oversight of VA budgeting through quarterly briefings, restricts executive bonuses at VA Central Office, and establishes a Veterans Experience Office to improve customer service
Policy Domains
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Signed into LawBecame Public Law No: 119-33.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3484-3487)
Held at the desk.
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Department of Veterans Affairs administrative staff, Department of Veterans Affairs offices, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Positive-direction: VA field office senior executives, VA senior executives with partial field duties
Negative-direction: Department of Veterans Affairs administrative staff, Department of Veterans Affairs offices, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, VA Central Office SES employees, VA Central Office senior executives in SES positions, VA Senior Executive Service employees at Central Office headquarters, VA administrative staff, VA program divisions, VA program offices, VA senior leadership
Congressional appropriations committees, Congressional oversight committees, Congressional veterans affairs committees
Veterans and beneficiaries, Veterans and beneficiaries of VA services
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- "the_chief_officer"
- → Chief Veterans Experience Officer
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
An office established within the Department within the Office of the Secretary to carry out customer experience initiatives
With respect to a fiscal year, means that the amount of appropriations required by the Department of Veterans Affairs for such fiscal year to meet all of the statutory obligations of the Department during that fiscal year exceeds the amount of appropriations requested for the Department for that fiscal year in the budget of the President
Has the meaning given such term in section 3132(a) of title 5
Includes the Veterans Health Administration, the Veterans Benefits Administration, and the National Cemetery Administration central offices, regardless of the actual location where the employee performs the functions of the position
The head of the Veterans Experience Office, appointed by the Secretary and reporting directly to the Secretary
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