H. R. 2911, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress of the United States of America
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H.R. 2911 is an Act of the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a plan for obligating and expending Coronavirus pandemic funding made available to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Section 1 gives the short title as the VA Transparency & Trust Act of 2021. Not later than 30 days after enactment, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate a detailed plan, including a detailed justification for each type of obligation. Every 14 days, the Secretary shall submit a report on obligations and expenditures of covered funds.
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H. R. 2911
One Hundred Seventeenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT T H E F I R S T S E S S I O N
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
the fourth day of January, two thousand and twenty-one
An Act
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a plan for obligating
and expending Coronavirus pandemic funding made available to 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 ‘‘VA Transparency & Trust Act
of 2021’’.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
FUNDING MADE AVAILABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS.
(a) PLAN AND REPORTS BY SECRETARY.—
(1) PLAN.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the House
of Representatives and the Senate a detailed plan for obligating
and expending covered funds, including a detailed justification
for each type of obligation of such funds.
(2) BIWEEKLY REPORTS.—Every 14 days during the period
beginning on the date on which the plan under paragraph
(1) is submitted and ending seven days after the date on which
the Secretary has expended all covered funds, the Secretary
shall submit to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the
House of Representatives and the Senate a report detailing
the obligation and expenditure of, and the planned uses for,
such funds during the period covered by the report, including
a written justification for any deviation in such obligations,
expenditures, or planned uses from such plan.
(b) INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDITS.—Not later than 120 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, and semiannually thereafter
for three years or until the Secretary has expended all covered
funds, whichever occurs first, the Inspector General of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Vet-
erans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate
a report examining the obligations and expenditures made using
covered funds during the period covered by the report. Each such
report shall include—
(1) a comparison of how the funds are being obligated
and expended to how the funds were planned to be obligated
and expended in the plan under subsection (a)(1);
(2) areas of waste, fraud, and abuse, if any; and
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(3) any other matter the Inspector General determines
relevant.
(c) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEWS.—
(1) INTERIM REPORT.—Not later than September 30, 2022,
the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit
to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate an interim report containing a
review of obligations and expenditures made using covered
funds. The report shall include—
(A) a review of the process of the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs for preparing the request for funds;
(B) an explanation of how the expenditure of such
funds met the goals of the Department during the public
health emergency for which the funds were made available;
(C) any recommendations to improve the process of
identifying needs and expending funds during similar situa-
tions in the future; and
(D) a review of the plans of the Department to continue
programs or investments that were begun with such funds
but will continue after such funds are expended.
(2) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than September 30, 2024,
the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committees on
Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the
Senate a final report on the matters specified under paragraph
(1).
(d) COVERED FUNDS DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘cov-
ered funds’’ means funds that are made available to the Department
of Veterans Affairs pursuant to—
(1) the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public
Law 116–127);
(2) the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security
Act (Public Law 116–136); or
(3) the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law
117–2).
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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