S.Amdt. 5080

SA 5080. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5051 proposed by Mr. Tester (for himself and Mr. Moran) to
the bill H.R. 3967, to improve health care and benefits for veterans
exposed to toxic substances, and for other purposes; which was ordered
to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. ANNUAL REPORT AND RECISSIONS.

(a) Annual Report.--Not later than September 30 of each
fiscal year, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit
to Congress and transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a
report detailing the amounts, denoted in dollars, expended by
the Department of Veterans Affairs in that fiscal year to
carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act.
(b) Annual Recissions.--At the beginning of each fiscal
year, beginning with the first fiscal year beginning after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall rescind, from such accounts of the Treasury as
the Secretary considers appropriate, amounts that were
appropriated to such accounts more than five years previously
and remain unobligated. The total amount rescinded under this
subsection in a fiscal year shall be equal to the total
amount last reported by the Secretary under subsection (a).
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