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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6654 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to establish and implement a comprehensive policy for managing 
software assets throughout the Department, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 11, 2025 
Ms. MACE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs to establish and implement 
a comprehensive policy for managing software assets 
throughout the Department, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Veterans Affairs Man-
agement and Oversight of Software Assets Act of 2025’’ 
or the ‘‘VAMOSA Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT-WIDE SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGE-
MENT POLICY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF 
VETERANS AFFAIRS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 
38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section: 
‘‘§ 534. Department-wide software asset management 
policy 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall ensure 
coordination between the Chief Information Officer and 
such other officers as the Secretary considers appropriate 
to establish and implement a comprehensive policy for 
managing software assets. 
‘‘(b) MINIMUM ELEMENTS.—The policy required by 
subsection (a) shall, at a minimum, provide for the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) Maintaining a comprehensive inventory of 
software assets. 
‘‘(2) Assessing interoperability and license re-
strictions with respect to those assets. 
‘‘(3) Identifying and eliminating waste, fraud, 
and abuse, including by regularly comparing the in-
ventory maintained under paragraph (1) against 
purchase records, subscription records, vendor billing 
records, and contract files to identify discrepancies, 
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over-procurement, redundant purchases, unauthor-
ized use, and under-utilized licenses. 
‘‘(4) Requiring that the Chief Information offi-
cer coordinate with the relevant officials in the De-
partment regarding any significant acquisition of a 
software asset. 
‘‘(5) Adopting cost-effective licensing strategies, 
including enterprise-wide agreements where prac-
ticable. 
‘‘(6) Measuring and enforcing compliance with 
license terms. 
‘‘(c) REVIEWS AND UPDATES.—Not less than once 
every three years, the Chief Information Officer, in con-
sultation with the Chief Financial Officer and any other 
appropriate officials of the Department, or their designees, 
shall review and update the policy. 
‘‘(d) TRAINING.—The Secretary shall ensure that 
each employee responsible for acquiring, managing, or im-
plementing software assets receives training no less often 
than annually on matters relevant to their duties, includ-
ing such matters as— 
‘‘(1) negotiating contract terms to minimize 
vendor-imposed restrictions on deployment, data ac-
cess, and transferability; 
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‘‘(2) the differences between acquiring commer-
cial software and custom software development; and 
‘‘(3) evaluating cost models for seat-based, con-
sumption-based, enterprise, or scalable license struc-
tures. 
‘‘(e) USE OF EXISTING RESOURCES.—This section 
shall be implemented using existing personnel, systems, 
and funds. This section does not authorize additional ap-
propriations or the establishment of a new program, office, 
or organizational entity. 
‘‘(f) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Secretary shall include, 
in the annual report submitted to Congress under section 
529 of this title— 
‘‘(1) a description of any substantive updates to 
the policy made during the preceding year; and 
‘‘(2) an estimate of cost savings realized from 
implementation of the policy during the preceding 
year. 
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘comprehensive inventory of soft-
ware assets’— 
‘‘(A) includes— 
‘‘(i) the comprehensive inventory of 
software 
licenses 
required 
by 
section 
2(b)(2)(A) of the Making Electronic Gov-
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ernment Accountable By Yielding Tangible 
Efficiencies Act of 2016 (Public Law 114– 
210; 40 U.S.C. 11302 note) and any direc-
tive issued by the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget under that Act; 
and 
‘‘(ii) a comprehensive inventory of all 
other software assets (as defined in this 
section); and 
‘‘(B) reflects all accounts, subscriptions, 
tenants, deployments, and associated license or 
usage entitlements. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘software asset’ means any soft-
ware, software-as-a-service (SaaS) product, cloud- 
based service, platform service, or application pro-
gramming interface (API) service for which the De-
partment incurs a cost to acquire, license, subscribe, 
operate, or maintain, whether hosted on Govern-
ment-managed or vendor-managed infrastructure. 
The term includes any associated software license, 
subscription, usage right, seat entitlement, capacity 
allocation, or consumption-based entitlement that 
governs access to or use of such software 
functionality. 
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‘‘(h) SUNSET.—The requirements and authorities of 
this section shall terminate on the date that is five years 
after the date of the enactment of the VAMOSA Act.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 533 the following new 
item: 
‘‘534. Department-wide software asset management policy.’’. 
(c) GAO REPORT.—Not later than three years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 
General shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Af-
fairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives a 
report evaluating— 
(1) the Department’s implementation of section 
534 of title 38, United States Code, as added by this 
section; 
(2) the cost savings achieved and duplication 
reduced; and 
(3) the degree of operational independence and 
conflict avoidance in any contractor support used to 
perform inventory management or entitlement rec-
onciliation. 
Æ 
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