Restore VA Accountability Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify personnel action procedures with respect to employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Restore Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability Act of 2025 or the Restore VA Accountability Act of 2025
This bill modifies personnel action procedures regarding certain employees and executives of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
The bill authorizes the VA to remove from civil service, demote, or suspend VA employees that are supervisors or managers if the VA determines by substantial evidence that the performance or misconduct of such individual warrants such action. This authority does not apply to certain appointees or individuals in their probationary or trial period.
Supervisors or managers who are subject to a removal, demotion, or suspension under this bill are entitled to (1) advance notice of the action and supporting evidence, (2) representation by an attorney or representative, and (3) grieve the action in accordance with an internal grievance process.
The bill also provides protections from removal, demotion, or suspension for supervisor or managers who are whistleblowers or are seeking corrective action for an alleged prohibited personnel practice such as discrimination.
The bill also modifies the procedures to remove, demote, or suspend VA employees or senior executives based on performance or misconduct, specifically by requiring the VA to determine by substantial evidence that the performance or misconduct of the individual warrants such removal, demotion, or suspension. Such procedures must apply retroactively, beginning on the date of enactment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 (June 23, 2017).
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- PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
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- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 472: Restore VA Accountability Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-472/
"H.R. 472: Restore VA Accountability Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-472/.
H.R. 472, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-472/.
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