VHA must report staffing and job openings every month.
H.R. 9533 — Veterans Health Administration Personnel Transparency and Accountability Act · Filed by Eugene Vindman (D-VA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 29, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill changes a law about the Veterans Health Administration. VHA must now publish reports every month instead of every three months. The reports must break down staffing by job type, like doctors or nurses. VHA must also publish reports on other staffing facts every three months.
Who it affects
Veterans and the public get faster and more detailed facts about VHA staffing. Congress and veterans' groups can better track whether VHA has enough staff.
One thing to notice
The bill requires VHA to report staffing facts by job type for the first time. This will show which types of jobs have the most empty spots.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jun 29, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 29, 2026 — 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
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $340,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 104 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Eugene Vindman, who sponsored the bill, received $853,778 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Psychological Association Services Inc.(fka American Psychological Assn — $340,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Veterans Health Administration — The part of the VA that runs hospitals and clinics for veterans.
- staffing — The people who work at a hospital or clinic.
- job type — A category of work, like doctor, nurse, or therapist.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,243 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 Jun 2026 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 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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