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The Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 () is a bill that would require the Inspector General (IG) of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to take additional action if the VA has not appropriately responded to an IG report that recommends actions to be taken by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to address a VA public health or safety issue.〔 The Secretary would be required to act swiftly on such IG reports, with the bill specifying actions to take.〔 The Secretary would also be forbidden from giving any bonuses to managers with unresolved issues.〔〔 The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. ==Background== (詳細はVeterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 erupted in the Spring of 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2072/all-actions/ )〕 This bill was scheduled for a vote in the House the week of May 26, 2014 in part due to on-going "allegations that several VA hospitals tried to conceal long wait times for medical care." These questions about substandard timely care and false records came to light in May 2014. The situation involved treatment of veterans in a number of VA hospitals. Eric Shinseki, then Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, resigned May 30, 2014.〔(Shinseki 'mad as hell' about VA allegations, but won't resign )〕 Senior Veterans Affairs officials reportedly kept secret waiting lists in order to hide the high number of veterans that were forced to wait for months to receive important medical care. As many as 450 senior officials may have been involved, including VA hospital managers.〔 Some veterans died while they were still awaiting treatment. A VA department handbook on administrative policies indicates that employees have 30 days to appeal any disciplinary action before it can be taken and have all disciplinary actions or reprimands removed from their records after two years.〔 The Department has to meet high standards for doing things like separately proving an employee was absent each and every day if the employee quits showing up to work and proving that there is a direct relationship between the misconduct and their own efficiency.〔 Data provided by the Office of Personnel Management shows that only 7,349 federal employees were fired in 2013 out of a total of almost 2 million.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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