Sec. 501. Misuse of Department of Veterans Affairs purchase cards by Department employees
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Subchapter I of chapter 7 of title 38, United States Code, is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary shall prohibit any employee of the Department who the Secretary or the Inspector General of the Department determines has knowingly misused a purchase card from serving as a purchase card holder or approving official. Such a prohibition shall be in addition to any other applicable penalty. For purposes of this section, the term misuse means— splitting purchases; exceeding applicable purchase card limits or purchase thresholds; purchasing any unauthorized item; using a purchase card without being an authorized purchase card holder; or violating ethics standards. .
The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 728 the following new item: 728. Misuse of Department purchase cards. .