Sec. 802. Veterans Choice Fund
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There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the Veterans Choice Fund. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall administer the Veterans Choice Fund established by subsection (a). Any amounts deposited in the Veteran Choice Fund shall be used by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out section 101, including, subject to paragraph (2), any administrative requirements of such section. Except as provided by subparagraph (B), of the amounts deposited in the Veterans Choice Fund, not more than $300,000,000 may be used for administrative requirements to carry out section 101. The Secretary may increase the amount set forth in subparagraph
(A)with respect to the amounts used for administrative requirements if— the Secretary determines that the amount of such increase is necessary to carry out section 101; the Secretary submits to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs and Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs and Appropriations of the Senate a report described in subparagraph (C); and a period of 60 days has elapsed following the date on which the Secretary submits the report under clause (ii). A report described in this subparagraph is a report that contains the following: A notification of the amount of the increase that the Secretary determines necessary under subparagraph (B)(i). The justifications for such increased amount. The administrative requirements that the Secretary will carry out using such increased amount. There is authorized to be appropriated, and is appropriated, to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated $10,000,000,000 to be deposited in the Veterans Choice Fund established by subsection (a). Such funds shall be available for obligation or expenditure without fiscal year limitation, and only for the program created under section 101. The amount appropriated under paragraph
(1)shall remain available until expended. It is the sense of Congress that the Veterans Choice Fund is a supplement to but distinct from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ current and expected level of non-Department care currently part of Department’s medical care budget. Congress expects that the Department will maintain at least its existing obligations of non-Department care programs in addition to but distinct from the Veterans Choice Fund for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2017.