Restore VA Accountability Act of 2025

This bill changes how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) can remove, demote, or suspend its employees for poor performance or misconduct. It creates a new process for supervisors and managers that ends appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board, limits the notice, response, and decision period to 15 business days, and allows review in federal court instead. It requires decisions to be based on substantial evidence and lists the factors deciding officials must use. It bars courts and appeals bodies from reviewing or reducing the penalty chosen, except on constitutional issues, and makes the VA's disciplinary procedures override inconsistent union contracts. The changes apply to conduct dating back to the 2017 VA accountability law.

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Sponsors

• Mike Bost Republican sponsor
• 30 cosponsors