H. R. 2911 

One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 

the fourth day of January, two thousand and twenty-one 

An Act 

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a plan for obligating 

and expending Coronavirus pandemic funding made available to the Department 

of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘VA Transparency & Trust Act 

of 2021’’. 

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 

FUNDING MADE AVAILABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS. 

(a) PLAN AND REPORTS BY SECRETARY.— 

(1) PLAN.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the 

enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 

submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the House 

of Representatives and the Senate a detailed plan for obligating 

and expending covered funds, including a detailed justification 

for each type of obligation of such funds. 

(2) BIWEEKLY REPORTS.—Every 14 days during the period 

beginning on the date on which the plan under paragraph 

(1) is submitted and ending seven days after the date on which 

the Secretary has expended all covered funds, the Secretary 

shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the 

House of Representatives and the Senate a report detailing 

the obligation and expenditure of, and the planned uses for, 

such funds during the period covered by the report, including 

a written justification for any deviation in such obligations, 

expenditures, or planned uses from such plan. 

(b) INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDITS.—Not later than 120 days after 

the date of the enactment of this Act, and semiannually thereafter 

for three years or until the Secretary has expended all covered 

funds, whichever occurs first, the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate 

a report examining the obligations and expenditures made using 

covered funds during the period covered by the report. Each such 

report shall include— 

(1) a comparison of how the funds are being obligated 

and expended to how the funds were planned to be obligated 

and expended in the plan under subsection (a)(1); 

(2) areas of waste, fraud, and abuse, if any; and 
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(3) any other matter the Inspector General determines 

relevant. 

(c) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEWS.— 

(1) INTERIM REPORT.—Not later than September 30, 2022, 

the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit 

to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate an interim report containing a 

review of obligations and expenditures made using covered 

funds. The report shall include— 

(A) a review of the process of the Department of Veterans Affairs for preparing the request for funds; 

(B) an explanation of how the expenditure of such 

funds met the goals of the Department during the public 

health emergency for which the funds were made available; 

(C) any recommendations to improve the process of 

identifying needs and expending funds during similar situations in the future; and 

(D) a review of the plans of the Department to continue 

programs or investments that were begun with such funds 

but will continue after such funds are expended. 

(2) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than September 30, 2024, 

the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committees on 

Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 

Senate a final report on the matters specified under paragraph 

(1). 

(d) COVERED FUNDS DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘covered funds’’ means funds that are made available to the Department 

of Veterans Affairs pursuant to— 

(1) the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public 

Law 116–127); 

(2) the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security 

Act (Public Law 116–136); or 

(3) the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 

117–2). 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.