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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2674 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans 

Affairs to transfer funds among certain scholarship and debt reduction 

programs. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 4, 2015 

Mr. MOULTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the 

Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer funds among 

certain scholarship and debt reduction programs. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Flexibility and Over5 sight Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. TRANSFER AUTHORITY AMONG CERTAIN PRO7 GRAMS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.— 


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1 (1) TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—Subchapter IV of 

2 chapter 76 of title 38, United States Code, is 

3 amended by adding at the end the following new sec4 tion: 

5 ‘‘§ 7637. Transfer authority 

6 ‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—Subject to subsection (b), the 

7 Secretary of Veterans Affairs may transfer funds made 

8 available to the Secretary to carry out a covered program 

9 between that covered program and another covered pro10 gram. Funds so transferred shall be merged with and be 

11 available for the same purposes as the funds to which 

12 transferred. 

13 ‘‘(b) CERTIFICATION.—The Secretary may make a 

14 transfer under subsection (a) if— 

15 ‘‘(1) the Secretary determines that such trans16 fer will improve the quality of service provided by 

17 the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans; 

18 ‘‘(2) the Secretary notifies Congress of such de19 termination and justification for such transfer; and 

20 ‘‘(3) a period of 30 days has elapsed following 

21 the date of such notification. 

22 ‘‘(c) EFFECT.—A transfer made from one account to 

23 another under the authority of this section shall be deemed 

24 to increase the amount authorized for the account to 


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1 which the amount is transferred by an amount equal to 

2 the amount transferred. 

3 ‘‘(d) COVERED PROGRAM DEFINED.—In this section, 

4 the term ‘covered program’ means any of the following: 

5 ‘‘(1) The Department of Veterans Affairs 

6 Health Professional Scholarship Program under sub7 chapter II of this chapter. 

8 ‘‘(2) The Department of Veterans Affairs Em9 ployee Incentive Scholarship Program under sub10 chapter VI of this chapter. 

11 ‘‘(3) The Department of Veterans Affairs Edu12 cation Debt Reduction Program under subchapter 

13 VII of this chapter. 

14 ‘‘(4) The education debt reduction program 

15 under section 7903 of this title.’’. 

16 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec17 tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended 

18 by inserting after the item relating to section 7636 

19 the following new item: 

‘‘7637. Transfer authority.’’. 

20 (b) REPORTS.—Section 7632 of such title is amended 

21 by adding at the end the following paragraph: 

22 ‘‘(8) During the 10-year period beginning on 

23 March 1, 2016, an evaluation of the efficacy of the 

24 programs in increasing the quality of health care 

25 provided to veterans, opportunities for improvement, 


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1 and other matters the Secretary determines appro2 priate.’’. 

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