S. 450 would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to include information about the time it takes VA to recruit and hire medical staff in a quarterly report on staffing and vacancies that the department provides under current law. The bill also would decrease the frequency—from semiannual to annual—of a report from the VA Inspector General on departmental staffing. CBO does not expect that those changes would affect the costs to prepare those reports; thus, implementing S. 450 would not affect the federal budget.
