of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
poration that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 
been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 
remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 
is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree-
ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 
liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 
tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter-
mination that this further action is not necessary to pro-
tect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Defense or the 
Department of Veterans Affairs to lease or purchase new 
light duty vehicles for any executive fleet, or for an agen-
cy’s fleet inventory, except in accordance with Presidential 
Memorandum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 
24, 2011. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 416. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0.
SEC. 417. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
pay a performance award under section 5384 of title 5, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to maintain or improve Department of 
Defense real property with a zero percent utilization rate 
according to the Department’s real property inventory 
database, except in the case of maintenance of an historic 
property as required by the National Historic Preservation 
Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) or in the case of maintenance 
to prevent a negative environmental impact as required 
by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). 
SEC. 419. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Defense to close a 
commissary store. 
SEC. 420. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to propose, plan for, or execute a new 
or additional Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 
round. 
SEC. 421. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to create or maintain any patient record- 
keeping system other than those currently approved by the
Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office in Wash-
ington, D.C. 
SEC. 422. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with any offeror 
or any of its principals if the offeror certifies, as required 
by Federal Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or any 
of its principals— 
(1) within a 3-year period preceding this offer 
has been convicted of or had a civil judgment ren-
dered against it for: (A) commission of fraud or a 
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, at-
tempting to obtain, or performing a public (Federal, 
State, or local) contract or subcontract; (B) violation 
of Federal or State antitrust statutes relating to the 
submission of offers; or (C) commission of embezzle-
ment, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruc-
tion of records, making false statements, tax eva-
sion, violating Federal criminal tax laws, or receiving 
stolen property; 
(2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise 
criminally or civilly charged by a governmental enti-
ty with, commission of any of the offenses enumer-
ated above in paragraph (1); or 
(3) within a 3-year period preceding this offer, 
has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in
an amount that exceeds $3,000 for which the liabil-
ity remains unsatisfied. 
SEC. 423. The amounts otherwise provided by this 
Act are revised by reducing the amount made available 
for ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs—Departmental Ad-
ministration—General Administration’’, and increasing 
the amount made available for ‘‘Department of Veterans 
Affairs Departmental Administration—Information Tech-
nology Systems’’, by $3,215,910. 
SEC. 424. None of the funds made available by this 
Act for benefits for homeless veterans and training and 
outreach programs may be used by the Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs in contravention of subchapter III of chapter 
20 of title 38, United States Code. 
SEC. 425. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for a contract that includes first-class 
travel by the contractor. 
SEC. 426. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the closure or abandonment of any 
facility located at Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal. 
SEC. 427. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
implement sole source contracting at the national level for 
the selection of devices and test strips for the self-moni-
toring of blood glucose.
SEC. 428. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to prepare an environmental impact 
statement in accordance with the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) with respect 
to a health care facility of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs that is— 
(1) designated as a National Historic Land-
mark by the National Park Service; and 
(2) located in a highly rural area. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2015’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 30, 2014. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4486 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for military construction, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2015, and for other purposes.