US HB3854

Secretary of Veterans Affairs must submit within 1 year a plan to expand automation tools across VA departments for processing benefits claims, including automated retrieval of service/health records, evidence compilation, decision support, and correspondence generation

Annual reports to Congress required on causes of death among veterans, including primary and secondary causes, manner of death, and whether deceased veterans had total service-connected disability ratings; reporting requirement sunsets after 5 years

Priority for automation tool deployment goes to the Pension and Fiduciary Service, Education Service, program offices of the Veterans Benefits Administration, the Debt Management Center, and the Board of Veterans' Appeals

Within 1 year, VA must implement technology in the National Work Queue to automatically alert claims processors when dependency compensation increases for children or when educational assistance is paid to veterans' children

Within 1 year, VA must submit a plan to ensure documents in the Veterans Benefits Management System are correctly labeled when uploaded, including those labeled using automation tools