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.

Bill: 114-hr-3200
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-23
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations

Congressional oversight

Department of Veterans Affairs

Executive agency funding and structure

Veterans' medical care
Latest action: action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-07-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to transfer to any covered medical account any amounts made available to it before enactment of this Act that remain available for obligation. </p> <p>Amounts so transferred shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes as the covered medical account to which transferred and shall be available for obligation or expenditure without fiscal year limitation. </p> <p>Covered medical accounts are the following VA accounts: (1) Veterans Health Administration, Medical Services; (2) Veterans Health Administration, Medical Support and Compliance; and (3) Veterans Health Administration, Medical Facilities.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3200 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 Appropriations , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction 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.

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 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 available 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 authority 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 committees means— (A) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and (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, Medical Services. (B) Veterans Health Administration, Medical Support and Compliance. (C) Veterans Health Administration, Medical Facilities.