VA must now disclose police officer pay to Congress annually
H.R. 3359 — Veterans’ Security and Pay Transparency Act · Filed by Frank Mrvan (D-IN) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced May 13, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit an annual report to Congress detailing compensation paid to VA police officers and security personnel, broken down by facility and job title. The report must cover salaries, availability pay, recruitment/retention bonuses, and other compensation for 11 specified police and security positions across the VA system.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a mandatory annual reporting requirement. It creates no new spending, no exemptions, and no private benefits—only a disclosure obligation that enhances public oversight of federal law enforcement compensation.
What the text implies
- Report may reveal significant pay disparities between VA facilities or job classifications, potentially triggering pressure for compensation standardization.
- Annual reporting creates a baseline for tracking compensation trends over time, enabling future legislative action if patterns emerge.
- Disaggregation by facility allows Congress to identify outliers and may expose regional pay inconsistencies within the federal system.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill creates transparency into how federal tax dollars are spent on VA police officer compensation. Transparency into government spending and personnel costs strengthens democratic accountability and allows Congress and the public to evaluate whether compensation levels are appropriate.
Named in the bill
Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, VA police officers, General Schedule (GS) positions
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Republicans.
- May 13, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 13, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 3 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $2,516,717 in lobbying spend. A filing names 20 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Frank Mrvan, the sponsor, reported $1,093,826 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Real Estate Roundtable — $2,486,717 on 2 filings
- Real Estate Roundtable — $30,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 19, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,896 characters) on Sep 7, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,398 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 19, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-23.
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