Title: A bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer certain coronavirus aid and relief funds to various accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to transfer certain unobligated COVID-19 funds from the Veterans Health Administration to other specified VA accounts.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4852 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4852

  To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer certain 
coronavirus aid and relief funds to various accounts of the Department 
              of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 23 (legislative day, October 19), 2020

  Ms. McSally introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transfer certain 
coronavirus aid and relief funds to various accounts of the Department 
              of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER CERTAIN UNOBLIGATED BALANCES TO 
              CERTAIN ACCOUNTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), of the unobligated 
balances available to the Department of Veterans Affairs from title X 
of division B of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act 
(Public Law 116-136) for ``Veterans Health Administration, Medical 
Services'', the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may transfer amounts to 
the following accounts in the amounts specified:
            (1) General Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits 
        Administration, up to $198,000,000.
            (2) Departmental Administration, Information Technology 
        Systems, up to $45,000,000.
    (b) Requirements.--
            (1) Education.--Amounts transferred under subsection (a) 
        shall be used to prevent, prepare for, and respond to 
        coronavirus, domestically or internationally, to improve the 
        education systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration, 
        including--
                    (A) implementation of changes to programs and 
                activities under chapters 30 through 36 of title 38, 
                United States Code, that are carried out pursuant to 
                the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance 
                Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-48);
                    (B) carrying out Public Law 116-128; and
                    (C) carrying out the Student Veteran Coronavirus 
                Response Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-140).
            (2) Information technology systems development.--That funds 
        transferred to Departmental Administration, Information 
        Technology Systems pursuant to subsection (a) shall be 
        transferred to the information technology systems development 
        subaccount.
            (3) Supplement, not supplant.--Amounts transferred to 
        accounts under subsection (a) shall be in addition to any other 
        amounts made available for the purposes for which amounts have 
        been appropriated to such accounts.
    (c) Emergency Designation.--That the amounts transferred under 
subsection (a) that were previously designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
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