Who is affected and how:

• Veterans with disabilities: Most directly affected. The committee is explicitly focused on accessibility for people with disabilities who use VA facilities, programs, and services, and its recommendations could lead to improved physical, programmatic, and communication access across VA.

• Disabled individuals who are VA users: Will benefit from focused advice to the Secretary and potential VA improvements informed by the committee’s recommendations.

• Department of Veterans Affairs staff and administrators: Responsible for providing records, data, technical assistance, staffing, and implementing or responding to committee recommendations. VA may absorb modest additional administrative workload to support the committee and to complete the 180-day review of inactive advisory committees.

• Inactive VA advisory committees and their members: May be abolished or consolidated as part of the required 180-day review, reducing the number of advisory bodies and changing stakeholder engagement paths.

• Taxpayers and federal budget: Likely minimal net budgetary impact. The statute requires VA to provide resources and staff support but does not specify new appropriations; administrative costs are expected to be modest and managed within VA’s existing budget unless additional funding is later provided.

• Accessibility and disability advocacy communities: Gain a formal, sustained advisory channel into VA decision-making for up to 10 years, which can shape policy, facility upgrades, service design, and communications.

Overall effect: The bill directs administrative reorganization and establishes an advisory mechanism to improve VA accessibility. It creates internal obligations for VA to support the committee and to review inactive advisory committees, with the potential for policy and operational changes that benefit veterans and other VA users with disabilities. The changes are procedural and advisory rather than regulatory or entitlement-changing.