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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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Flexibility and Over-
sight Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TRANSFER AUTHORITY AMONG CERTAIN PRO-
GRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
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(1) TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—Subchapter IV of 
chapter 76 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sec-
tion: 
‘‘§ 7637. Transfer authority 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—Subject to subsection (b), the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs may transfer funds made 
available to the Secretary to carry out a covered program 
between that covered program and another covered pro-
gram. Funds so transferred shall be merged with and be 
available for the same purposes as the funds to which 
transferred. 
‘‘(b) CERTIFICATION.—The Secretary may make a 
transfer under subsection (a) if— 
‘‘(1) the Secretary determines that such trans-
fer will improve the quality of service provided by 
the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans; 
‘‘(2) the Secretary notifies Congress of such de-
termination and justification for such transfer; and 
‘‘(3) a period of 30 days has elapsed following 
the date of such notification. 
‘‘(c) EFFECT.—A transfer made from one account to 
another under the authority of this section shall be deemed 
to increase the amount authorized for the account to 
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which the amount is transferred by an amount equal to 
the amount transferred. 
‘‘(d) COVERED PROGRAM DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘covered program’ means any of the following: 
‘‘(1) The Department of Veterans Affairs 
Health Professional Scholarship Program under sub-
chapter II of this chapter. 
‘‘(2) The Department of Veterans Affairs Em-
ployee Incentive Scholarship Program under sub-
chapter VI of this chapter. 
‘‘(3) The Department of Veterans Affairs Edu-
cation Debt Reduction Program under subchapter 
VII of this chapter. 
‘‘(4) The education debt reduction program 
under section 7903 of this title.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 7636 
the following new item: 
‘‘7637. Transfer authority.’’. 
(b) REPORTS.—Section 7632 of such title is amended 
by adding at the end the following paragraph: 
‘‘(8) During the 10-year period beginning on 
March 1, 2016, an evaluation of the efficacy of the 
programs in increasing the quality of health care 
provided to veterans, opportunities for improvement, 
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and other matters the Secretary determines appro-
priate.’’. 
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