1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Modernizing Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Benefit Questionnaires Act . 2. Modernization of Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefit questionnaires (a) Requirement for transmission of certain information in machine-Readable format (1) Requirement Not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall require all disability benefit questionnaire data collected in the course of medical disability examinations made by persons other than employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs under section 504 of the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 1996 ( Public Law 104–275 ; 38 U.S.C. 5101 note) to be transmitted to the Department in a machine-readable format. (2) Issuance of standards Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall issue standards for the transmission of disability benefit questionnaire data in a machine-readable format as required under paragraph (1). (3) Updates In making updates to disability benefit questionnaires after the date specified in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— (A) ensure that the updates are made in a manner that allows for the data collected under the questionnaires to be in a machine-readable format as of the date on which the update goes into effect