HR 1039referred119th Congress

Clear Communication for Veterans Claims Act

Introduced Feb 6, 2025House billPolicy area: Armed Forces and National SecurityLast action Apr 8, 2025Sponsor: Tom Barrett(R-MI)

defenseArmed Forces and National Security

Veterans' Affairs CommitteeDisability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee

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Official summaryUpdated Apr 8, 2025

What the bill does

Clear Communication for Veterans Claims Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to assess notices that the VA sends to claimants applying for or submitting claims for VA benefits. The VA must report on the findings of the assessment and implement recommendations in the assessment. The bill also extends certain loan fee rates through June 23, 2034, under the VA's home loan program.

Latest official action

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$527.7K

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

100

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Feb 6, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 7, 2025vote

Cliff Bentz voted yea

Apr 7, 2025vote

Stephanie I. Bice voted yea

Apr 7, 2025vote

Lauren Boebert voted yea

Apr 15, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Apr 15, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF VETERANS' ADVOCATES, INC.

Official Congressional Actions

Apr 8, 2025IntroReferral

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Veterans' Affairs Committee

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Apr 7, 2025Floor

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

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Apr 7, 2025Floor

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1039.

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Apr 7, 2025Floor

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 412 - 0 (Roll no. 90). (text: CR H1437: 1)

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	$141.4K	Jul 14, 2025	2025Q2	VET
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	$141.4K	Apr 15, 2025	2025Q1	VET
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA	$89.2K	Jul 18, 2025

Votes on This Bill

Member	Party	Position	Date
Cliff Bentz	R	yea	Apr 7, 2025
Stephanie I. Bice	R	yea	Apr 7, 2025
Lauren Boebert	R	yea	Apr 7, 2025
Cleo Fields	D	yea	Apr 7, 2025

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.