[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6589 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6589

 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and submit to 
 Congress a plan to address the material weakness of the Department of 
               Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2020

Mrs. Lee of Nevada introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and submit to 
 Congress a plan to address the material weakness 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``CFO Authority and Collaboration Act 
of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PLAN TO ADDRESS MATERIAL WEAKNESS OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall--
            (1) develop a plan, including steps and related timelines, 
        for fully addressing--
                    (A) the repeated material weakness of the 
                Department of Veterans Affairs; and
                    (B) the recommendations of the auditor related to 
                entity level controls, including the organizational 
                structure of the office of the Chief Financial Officer 
                of the Department; and
            (2) submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the 
        Senate and the House of Representatives a report containing a 
        description of--
                    (A) the plan developed under paragraph (1); and
                    (B) the steps the Secretary plans to take to 
                provide sufficient authority to the Chief Financial 
                Officer of the Department to carry out the requirements 
                of section 902 of title 31, United States Code.
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