Report on certain claims for service-connected disability

(a) Report required Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a report regarding covered claims. Such report shall include the numbers of covered claims, disaggregated by gender of the claimant and whether the military service record of the claimant includes a combat identifier, that, respectively— (1) were submitted; (2) were granted; (3) were denied; (4) were unresolved; or (5) were appealed. (b) Definitions In this section: (1) The term covered claim means a claim— (A) for service-connected disability; (B) on the basis of post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury; and (C) submitted to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on or after January 1, 1990. (2) The term service-connected has the meaning given such term in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.