HR 3113
114th Congress
House
Armed Forces and National Security
Alternative and renewable resources
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Electric power generation and transmission
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Veterans' medical care
Empowering Our Veterans Act of 2015
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 5, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 16, 2015
Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jul 16, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Empowering Our Veterans Act of 2015
Prohibits the appropriation of funds, or the obligation or expenditure of funds by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for any VA alternative energy generation project unless the funds for such project have been specifically authorized by law.
Directs the VA to transfer all unobligated funds that were appropriated to it before this Act's enactment for an alternative energy generation project to the VA's account funding veterans' medical care.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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