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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3200 
To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer unobligated 
amounts previously made available to the Department of Veterans Affairs 
to the medical accounts of the Department to improve the furnishing 
of health care to veterans. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 23, 2015 
Ms. BROWN of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ap-
propriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer 
unobligated amounts previously made available to the 
Department of Veterans Affairs to the medical accounts 
of the Department to improve the furnishing of health 
care to veterans. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. TRANSFER AUTHORITY TO IMPROVE HEALTH 
CARE FOR VETERANS. 
(a) TRANSFER.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
may transfer any amounts made available to the Secretary 
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before the date of the enactment of this Act that remain 
available for obligation to any covered medical account. 
Amounts so transferred shall be merged with and be avail-
able for the same purposes as the covered medical account 
to which transferred and shall be available for obligation 
or expenditure without fiscal year limitation. 
(b) EFFECT
ON
AUTHORIZATION
AMOUNTS.—A 
transfer made to a covered medical account under the au-
thority of this section shall be deemed to increase the 
amount authorized for the covered medical account to 
which the amount is transferred by an amount equal to 
the amount transferred. 
(c) NOTICE
TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary shall 
promptly notify the appropriate congressional committees 
of each transfer made under subsection (a). 
(d) CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORITY.—The transfer 
authority provided under subsection (a) is in addition to 
any other transfer authority provided to the Secretary by 
law. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives; and 
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(B) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
(2) The term ‘‘covered medical accounts’’ 
means the following accounts of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs: 
(A) Veterans Health Administration, Med-
ical Services. 
(B) Veterans Health Administration, Med-
ical Support and Compliance. 
(C) Veterans Health Administration, Med-
ical Facilities. 
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