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The bill streamlines and clarifies VA hiring law to preserve recruitment tools and reduce ambiguity, but risks removing existing protections and causing temporary legal or administrative disruption for VA personnel.
VA employees and applicants: keep access to hiring flexibilities (e.g., incentive pay, expedited hiring) that help the department recruit and retain staff.
Department of Veterans Affairs operations: removal and redesignation of obsolete statutory subsections reduces legal ambiguity and simplifies statutory text for VA administration.
VA staff and applicants: removing statutory subsections could unintentionally eliminate protections or authorities they relied on if those provisions are not preserved elsewhere.
Department of Veterans Affairs and VA employees: revising the statute could prompt legal challenges or create transition and implementation costs, temporarily slowing personnel actions and creating administrative burden.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes subsections (b), (c), and (d) of 38 U.S.C. §7422, redesignates subsection (e) as (b), and establishes a short title; preserves specified Secretary personnel authorities.
Establishes a short title for the law and changes the text of 38 U.S.C. §7422 by removing three existing subsections and redesignating a remaining subsection. The bill also clarifies that those changes do not reduce the Secretary of Veterans Affairs’ existing authorities over incentive pay, expedited hiring under 38 U.S.C. §706, or similar personnel authorities.
Introduced May 7, 2025 by Mark Takano · Last progress May 7, 2025