[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3200 Introduced in House (IH)]

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.


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                    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

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                                 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 Representatives 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 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.
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