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H.R. 592: Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2019

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H.R. 592: Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2019

116th Congress · introduced 2019-01-16 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-01-16 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Subcommittee Hearings Held. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2019

Plain summary

Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2019 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay a beneficiary (or beneficiary's successor fiduciary) the amount of the misused benefit when any fiduciary has misused all or part of an individual's benefit. Specifically, the bill requires this payment in any case not involving negligent failure by the VA to investigate or monitor a fiduciary but where a fiduciary misuses all or part of an individual's benefit. The bill removes the stipulation that the fiduciary (1) not be an individual, or (2) serve at least 10 beneficiaries for the VA to repay misused benefits. An adverse determination by the VA of a veteran's mental capacity to manage VA monetary benefits may be appealed in accordance with provisions governing the Board of Veterans' Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

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Official text

Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2019

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] · 32 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Tom Cole (R-OK), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Ed Case (D-HI), André Carson (D-IN), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] reported raising $580,025 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr592 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116