Congressional Budget and Impoundment Con-
trol Act of 1974 or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and 
the amount transferred to the Fund shall be re-
duced by the same amount. 
‘‘(4) PURPOSE.—Amounts appropriated from 
the Fund— 
‘‘(A) shall be available for— 
‘‘(i) the delivery of veterans’ health 
care under Public Law 117–168, subject to 
the eligibility criteria described in section 
1710(e) of this title as added to such sec-
tion by such Public Law; 
‘‘(ii) any expenses, including adminis-
trative and information technology ex-
penses, incident to— 
‘‘(I) the delivery of veterans’ 
health care described in clause (i); or 
‘‘(II) the delivery of benefits 
under Public Law 117–168, including 
to carry out section 701 of such Pub-
lic Law; and 
‘‘(iii) medical research under Public 
Law 117–168; and 
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‘‘(B) shall not be available for leases as au-
thorized or approved under section 8104 of this 
title. 
‘‘(c) ACCOUNTABILITY AND OVERSIGHT.— 
‘‘(1) WORK PLAN.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of the 
Toxic Exposure Fund Improvement Act, the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit, to 
the Committee on Veterans Affairs and Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and Committee on Veterans Affairs 
and Committee on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate, a work plan including the proposed alloca-
tion of funds authorized to be appropriated pur-
suant to subsection (b)(3) for each fiscal years 
2025 through 2033 for the Fund and the con-
tents described in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—The work plan sub-
mitted under subparagraph (A) shall include— 
‘‘(i) the amount of money to be obli-
gated or expended in each year from the 
Fund; and 
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‘‘(ii) a description of how each such 
account supports the strategic goal of serv-
ing veterans exposed to toxic materials. 
‘‘(2) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than 
January 1 of each fiscal years 2027 through 
2033, the Secretary shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Veterans Affairs and Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and Committee on Veterans Affairs and Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate, a re-
port including— 
‘‘(i) the amount of money obligated or 
expended in the prior fiscal year from the 
Fund; 
‘‘(ii) a description of any such project 
using funds provided pursuant to the au-
thorization of appropriations under sub-
section (b)(3); and 
‘‘(iii) whether such projects are serv-
ing veterans exposed to toxic materials. 
‘‘(B) ADDITIONAL
REPORTS.—Upon the 
request of the Committee on Veterans Affairs 
and Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and Committee on Veterans 
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Affairs and Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate, the Secretary shall provide an update in 
the form of testimony and any additional re-
ports to the respective congressional committee 
regarding the allocation of funding under this 
section or the description of the Fund. 
‘‘(d) TRANSFER AND REPROGRAMMING OF FUNDS.— 
No amounts may be transferred into the Fund may be 
from amounts that were designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolu-
tion on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
‘‘(e) BUDGET SCOREKEEPING.— 
‘‘(1) SAVINGS.—The amounts made available 
under subsection (b)(2) shall be derived from sav-
ings generated through the modification of the Fund 
by operation of this enactment of the Toxic Expo-
sure Fund Improvement Act to cover the cost of the 
Fund. Any funds in excess of the total amounts so 
made available shall be returned to the general fund 
of the Treasury. 
‘‘(2) ESTIMATES FOR CONGRESSIONAL CONSID-
ERATION.—The Secretary shall include in the docu-
ments submitted to Congress in support of the 
President’s budget submitted pursuant to section 
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1105 of title 31 detailed estimates of the sums de-
scribed in subsection (b) for the applicable fiscal 
year. 
‘‘(3) PROCEDURES
FOR
ESTIMATES.—After 
consultation with the Committees on Veterans’ Af-
fairs and Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and Senate, the Secretary may establish poli-
cies and procedures for developing the annual de-
tailed estimates required by paragraph (2). 
‘‘(f) BUDGETARY TREATMENT.— 
‘‘(1) STATUTORY
PAYGO
SCORECARDS.—The 
budgetary effects of this section shall not be entered 
on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to 
section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(d)). 
‘‘(2) SENATE PAYGO SCORECARDS.—The budg-
etary effects of this section shall not be entered on 
any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of 
section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress). 
‘‘(3) RESERVATION OF SAVINGS.—None of the 
amounts in the Fund may be made available except 
to the extent provided in advance in appropriations 
Acts, and legislation or an Act that rescinds or re-
duces amounts in such accounts shall not be esti-
mated as a reduction in direct spending under the 
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Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974 or the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 3 of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
by striking the item relating to section 324 and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘324. Toxic Exposure Fund.’’. 
(c) APPLICATION
FOR FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 
2025.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The amounts made available 
under section 101(d) of title I of division A of Public 
Law 118–5 shall be carried out consistent with the 
requirements of section 324 of title 38, United 
States Code, as amended by subsection (a) of this 
section. 
(2) LIMITS.—In carrying out paragraph (1) for 
fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the amounts appro-
priated by such section 101(d) for fiscal year 2024 
or 2025 shall be deemed to be an amount trans-
ferred to the Toxic Exposure Fund under subsection 
(b)(2)(A) of such section 324, and shall be treated 
in the same manner as amounts so transferred for 
each of fiscal years 2026 through 2033. 
(3) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
subsection shall be construed to require such 
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amounts for fiscal year 2024 and 2025 to be re-
appropriated by Congress, and such funds shall be 
available for obligation and expenditure without fu-
ture appropriations. 
SEC. 3. TOXIC EXPOSURE FUND APPROPRIATIONS FOR FIS-
CAL YEARS 2034 THROUGH 2045. 
(a) ASSESSMENT.—Not later than November 1, 
2024, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit 
an assessment, to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives, on the fund-
ing provided to carry out the Toxic Exposure Fund under 
section 324 of title 38, United States Code. Such assess-
ment shall include the following: 
(1) The amount of monies that were obligated 
and expended from the Fund during the most re-
cently ended fiscal year. 
(2) An estimate of the amount of funds that 
transferred from the most recently ended fiscal year 
to the current fiscal year pursuant to subsection 
(b)(2)(C)(i) of such section 324. 
(b) PROPOSED FUNDING LEVEL.—Not later than 
October 1, 2033, the Secretary shall submit to Congress 
a report containing proposed funding levels for the Toxic 
Exposure Fund for each of fiscal years 2034 through 
2045. Such report shall include— 
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(1) a single page containing a list of each such 
fiscal year and a corresponding proposed appropria-
tion (expressed as a single dollar amount) for such 
a year in the same manner as provided in section 
324(b)(2)(A) of title 38, United States Code; 
(2) an explanation and methodology of how the 
Secretary determined such amounts are appropriate 
funding levels; and 
(3) how such funding levels will address pos-
sible inflation and will fully fund activities author-
ized under such section 324. 
(c) PROVISION OF FUNDS.—Unless a joint resolution 
of disapproval under subsection (d) is enacted into law, 
on October 1, 2034, and on October 1 of each of fiscal 
years 2035 through 2045, there are hereby appropriated, 
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, the dollar amount for the applicable fiscal year 
submitted by the Secretary under subsection (b)(1). 
Amounts appropriated under this subsection shall be avail-
able under the terms and conditions of section 324 of title 
38, United States Code. 
(d) JOINT RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this sub-
section, the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means only a 
joint resolution which is introduced within the 5-day 
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period beginning on the date on which the Secretary 
transmits the report to the Congress under sub-
section (b), and— 
(A) which does not have a preamble; 
(B) the matter after the resolving clause of 
which is as follows: ‘‘That Congress disapproves 
the recommendations for the funding of the 
Toxic Exposure Fund for Fiscal Years 2034 
through 2045’’, the blank space being filled 
with the appropriate date; and 
(C) the title of which is as follows: ‘‘Joint 
resolution disapproving the recommendations 
for the funding of the Toxic Exposure Fund for 
Fiscal Years 2034 through 2045.’’. 
(2) CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OF REP-
RESENTATIVES.— 
(A) REPORTING
AND
DISCHARGE.—Any 
committee of the House of Representatives to 
which a joint resolution is referred shall report 
it to the House without amendment not later 
than 15 legislative days after the date of intro-
duction thereof. If a committee fails to report 
the joint resolution, the committee shall be dis-
charged from further consideration of the joint 
resolution. 
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(B) PROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION.—It 
shall be in order at any time after the third leg-
islative day after each committee authorized to 
consider a joint resolution has reported or has 
been discharged from consideration of a joint 
resolution, to move to proceed to consider the 
joint resolution in the House. All points of 
order against the motion are waived. Such a 
motion shall not be in order after the House 
has disposed of a motion to proceed on a joint 
resolution addressing a particular submission. 
The previous question shall be considered as or-
dered on the motion to its adoption without in-
tervening motion. The motion shall not be de-
batable. A motion to reconsider the vote by 
which the motion is disposed of shall not be in 
order. 
(C) CONSIDERATION.—The joint resolution 
shall be considered as read. All points of order 
against the joint resolution and against its con-
sideration are waived. The previous question 
shall be considered as ordered on the joint reso-
lution to its passage without intervening motion 
except 2 hours of debate equally divided and 
controlled by the proponent and an opponent. A 
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motion to reconsider the vote on passage of the 
joint resolution shall not be in order. 
(3) CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.— 
(A) REFERRAL.—A joint resolution intro-
duced in the Senate shall be referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. 
(B) REPORTING
AND
DISCHARGE.—Any 
committee of the Senate to which a joint resolu-
tion is referred shall report it to the Senate 
without amendment not later than 15 session 
days after the date of introduction of a joint 
resolution described in paragraph (1). If a com-
mittee fails to report the joint resolution within 
that period, the committee shall be discharged 
from further consideration of the joint resolu-
tion and the joint resolution shall be placed on 
the calendar. 
(C) FLOOR CONSIDERATION.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 
Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the 
Senate, it is in order at any time after the 
third session day on which the Committee 
on Veterans’ Affairs has reported or has 
been discharged from consideration of a 
joint resolution described in paragraph (1) 
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(even though a previous motion to the 
same effect has been disagreed to) to move 
to proceed to the consideration of the joint 
resolution, and all points of order against 
the joint resolution (and against consider-
ation of the joint resolution) are waived. 
The motion to proceed is not debatable. 
The motion is not subject to a motion to 
postpone. A motion to reconsider the vote 
by which the motion is agreed to or dis-
agreed to shall not be in order. If a motion 
to proceed to the consideration of the reso-
lution is agreed to, the joint resolution 
shall remain the unfinished business until 
disposed of. 
(ii) CONSIDERATION.—Consideration 
of the joint resolution, and on all debatable 
motions and appeals in connection there-
with, shall be limited to not more than 2 
hours, which shall be divided equally be-
tween the majority and minority leaders or 
their designees. A motion further to limit 
debate is in order and not debatable. An 
amendment to, or a motion to postpone, or 
a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
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other business, or a motion to recommit 
the joint resolution is not in order. 
(iii) VOTE ON PASSAGE.—If the Sen-
ate has voted to proceed to a joint resolu-
tion, the vote on passage of the joint reso-
lution shall occur immediately following the 
conclusion of consideration of the joint res-
olution, and a single quorum call at the 
conclusion of the debate if requested in ac-
cordance with the rules of the Senate. 
(iv) RULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PRO-
CEDURE.—Appeals from the decisions of 
the Chair relating to the application of the 
rules of the Senate, as the case may be, to 
the procedure relating to a joint resolution 
shall be decided without debate. 
(4) AMENDMENT NOT IN ORDER.—A joint reso-
lution of disapproval considered pursuant to this sec-
tion shall not be subject to amendment in either the 
House of Representatives or the Senate. 
(5) COORDINATION
WITH
ACTION
BY
OTHER 
HOUSE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—If, before the passage 
by one House of the joint resolution of that 
House, that House receives the joint resolution 
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from the other House, then the following proce-
dures shall apply: 
(i) The joint resolution of the other 
House shall not be referred to a com-
mittee. 
(ii) With respect to the joint resolu-
tion of the House receiving the joint reso-
lution— 
(I) the procedure in that House 
shall be the same as if no joint resolu-
tion had been received from the other 
House; but 
(II) the vote on passage shall be 
on the joint resolution of the other 
House. 
(B) TREATMENT
OF
JOINT
RESOLUTION 
OF OTHER HOUSE.—If the Senate fails to intro-
duce or consider a joint resolution under this 
section, the joint resolution of the House shall 
be entitled to expedited floor procedures under 
this section. 
(C) TREATMENT
OF
COMPANION
MEAS-
URES.—If, following passage of the joint resolu-
tion in the Senate, the Senate then receives the 
companion measure from the House of Rep-
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resentatives, the companion measure shall not 
be debatable. 
(6) RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES AND SENATE.—This subsection is enacted by 
Congress— 
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 
of the Senate and House of Representatives, re-
spectively, and as such it is deemed a part of 
the rules of each House, respectively, but appli-
cable only with respect to the procedure to be 
followed in that House in the case of a joint 
resolution, and it supersedes other rules only to 
the extent that it is inconsistent with such 
rules; and 
(B) with full recognition of the constitu-
tional right of either House to change the rules 
(so far as relating to the procedure of that 
House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
to the same extent as in the case of any other 
rule of that House. 
Æ 
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