[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2674 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2674

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to transfer funds among certain scholarship and debt 
                          reduction programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2015

 Mr. Moulton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to transfer funds among certain scholarship and debt 
                          reduction programs.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Flexibility and Oversight Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER AUTHORITY AMONG CERTAIN PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Transfer authority.--Subchapter IV of chapter 76 of 
        title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
        the following new section:
``Sec. 7637. Transfer authority
    ``(a) Authority.--Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs may transfer funds made available to the Secretary to 
carry out a covered program between that covered program and another 
covered program. Funds so transferred shall be merged with and be 
available for the same purposes as the funds to which transferred.
    ``(b) Certification.--The Secretary may make a transfer under 
subsection (a) if--
            ``(1) the Secretary determines that such transfer will 
        improve the quality of service provided by the Department of 
        Veterans Affairs to veterans;
            ``(2) the Secretary notifies Congress of such determination 
        and justification for such transfer; and
            ``(3) a period of 30 days has elapsed following the date of 
        such notification.
    ``(c) Effect.--A transfer made from one account to another under 
the authority of this section shall be deemed to increase the amount 
authorized for the account to which the amount is transferred by an 
amount equal to the amount transferred.
    ``(d) Covered Program Defined.--In this section, the term `covered 
program' means any of the following:
            ``(1) The Department of Veterans Affairs Health 
        Professional Scholarship Program under subchapter II of this 
        chapter.
            ``(2) The Department of Veterans Affairs Employee Incentive 
        Scholarship Program under subchapter VI of this chapter.
            ``(3) The Department of Veterans Affairs Education Debt 
        Reduction Program under subchapter VII of this chapter.
            ``(4) The education debt reduction program under section 
        7903 of this title.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the 
        item relating to section 7636 the following new item:

``7637. Transfer authority.''.
    (b) Reports.--Section 7632 of such title is amended by adding at 
the end the following paragraph:
            ``(8) During the 10-year period beginning on March 1, 2016, 
        an evaluation of the efficacy of the programs in increasing the 
        quality of health care provided to veterans, opportunities for 
        improvement, and other matters the Secretary determines 
        appropriate.''.
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