{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-4016","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 4016","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the repayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of benefits misused by a fiduciary.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the repayment by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of benefits misused by a fiduciary."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-06-12","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-04-30","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h160","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act","result":"Passed","yea":413,"nay":0,"present":0,"not_voting":15,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll160.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.","date":"2024-05-01"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-06-12","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill modifies the procedures by which the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reissues misused benefits to a beneficiary, including by requiring the VA to establish methods and timing with respect to determining whether an instance of misuse by a fiduciary is the result of negligence by the VA."},{"k":"p","t":"Under the bill, the VA may not withhold the reissuing of a benefit payment by reason of a pending determination regarding the VA's negligence in relation to the instance of misuse by a fiduciary. Additionally, the VA is not required to make a determination regarding its negligence for each instance of misuse by a fiduciary, of all or part of an individual's benefit paid to such fiduciary."}],"words":120},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Rewrites section 6107 of title 38, United States Code, to set how the Secretary of Veterans Affairs reissues to a beneficiary the benefits that a fiduciary misused.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text/eh#H70770448B06842FA8E7998225A723204"}]},"core_areas":["Reissuance of VA benefits misused by fiduciaries","Recoupment of misused benefits from fiduciaries","VA determinations of negligence in fiduciary misuse"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay the beneficiary or the beneficiary's successor fiduciary an amount equal to the benefit a fiduciary misused.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text/eh#H70770448B06842FA8E7998225A723204"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to make a good faith effort to obtain recoupment from the fiduciary to whom the payment was originally made, when the Secretary has reissued a benefit payment in whole or in part.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text/eh#H70770448B06842FA8E7998225A723204"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to promptly remit recouped amounts to the beneficiary or successor fiduciary, to the extent those amounts have not already been paid by the Secretary.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text/eh#H70770448B06842FA8E7998225A723204"}},{"text":"Limits the total paid to a beneficiary or successor fiduciary under the section to the total benefit amount the fiduciary misused with respect to that beneficiary.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text/eh#H70770448B06842FA8E7998225A723204"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to establish methods and timing for determining whether an instance of fiduciary misuse is the result of negligence by the Secretary.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text/eh#H70770448B06842FA8E7998225A723204"}},{"text":"Bars the Secretary from withholding a reissued benefit payment because a negligence determination is pending, and does not require a negligence determination for each instance of misuse.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text/eh#H70770448B06842FA8E7998225A723204"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-04-30","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4016/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-4016.png","v":"ee126c950b3a","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 4016, 118th Congress: Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act. House: 413 Yea, 0 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 30 Apr 2024."}}