Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Centralized Reimbursement for Upgraded Innovative Service Equipment Act or the CRUISE Act.
(a) Timeliness of payments
Section 3902 of title 38, United States Code, is amended, in subsection (a)—
(1) by inserting (1) before The Secretary; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
(2) The Secretary shall—
(A) make payments under this section in compliance with section 3903(a) of title 31; and
(B) in the case of any payment under this section that is not processed within 30 days, the Secretary shall publish the number of days required to process the payment.
(2) .
(b) Centralization of process for making payments
Such section is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
(1) The Secretary shall ensure that the process for making payments to sellers under this section is centralized within the Central Office of the Department.
(2) The Secretary shall develop a process to accurately track and resolve payments due to sellers under this section that have been outstanding for longer than 90 days.
(b) Centralization of process for making payments
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