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Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report annually on compensation for police officers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Introduced May 13, 2025 by Frank J. Mrvan · Last progress May 13, 2025
The bill increases transparency about VA police pay to help Congress and VA managers identify staffing and pay problems and pursue fairer compensation, but it imposes administrative costs on the VA and risks privacy/security concerns for individual officers if not carefully managed.
Congress, VA facility administrators, and the public will receive regular, facility-level reporting on VA police/officer pay and bonuses, increasing transparency and enabling oversight of staffing and compensation practices.
VA facility administrators and veterans could benefit from clearer data to identify recruitment and retention gaps at specific facilities, allowing targeted staffing or resource changes that may improve veteran services.
Federal law-enforcement employees and policymakers will gain a factual basis to evaluate and potentially standardize pay practices across VA facilities, which could lead to fairer, more consistent compensation.
VA staff and federal employees will face additional administrative work and costs to prepare and submit detailed, facility-level compensation reports.
Individual VA officers and other employees could face privacy or security risks if facility-level pay reporting is published without adequate redaction or protective measures.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the VA to report annually, by facility and job series, total compensation paid to VA police and specified security positions.
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to produce and submit an annual, facility-level report on total compensation paid to VA police officers and related security positions, broken out by specified GS job series. The first report must be delivered within six months of enactment and thereafter at least once each year, and must include base pay, availability pay, recruitment/retention bonuses, and any other compensation.