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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§2214 Transfer of Funds: Procedure and Limitations

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › CHAPTER 131 — PLANNING AND COORDINATION › § 2214

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows the Department of Defense to move money between its working capital funds and other military appropriations when an appropriation law permits it (this does not include military construction). Money that is moved becomes part of the account it goes into and must be used for the same purposes and within the same time limits as that account. The Secretary of Defense must quickly tell Congress each time money is moved. Money may only be moved to cover a higher priority need that came up unexpectedly. Money cannot be moved to pay for something Congress has denied funding for. The Secretary of Defense and the secretaries of the military departments may not ask Congress to reprogram funds unless it is for an unforeseen higher priority need and not for an item Congress refused to fund.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2214

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Procedure for Transfer of Funds.—
Whenever authority is provided in an appropriation Act to transfer amounts in working capital funds or to transfer amounts provided in appropriation Acts for military functions of the Department of Defense (other than military construction) between such funds or appropriations (or any subdivision thereof), amounts transferred under such authority shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes and for the same time period as the fund or appropriations to which transferred.
(b)Limitations on Programs for Which Authority May Be Used.—
Such authority to transfer amounts—
(1)may not be used except to provide funds for a higher priority item, based on unforeseen military requirements, than the items for which the funds were originally appropriated; and
(2)may not be used if the item to which the funds would be transferred is an item for which Congress has denied funds.
(c)Notice to Congress.—
The Secretary of Defense shall promptly notify the Congress of each transfer made under such authority to transfer amounts.
(d)Limitations on Requests to Congress for Reprogrammings.—
Neither the Secretary of Defense nor the Secretary of a military department may prepare or present to the Congress, or to any committee of either House of the Congress, a request with respect to a reprogramming of funds—
(1)unless the funds to be transferred are to be used for a higher priority item, based on unforeseen military requirements, than the item for which the funds were originally appropriated; or
(2)if the request would be for authority to reprogram amounts to an item for which the Congress has denied funds.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1991, see section 1482(d) of Pub. L. 101–510, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1990 Amendment note under section 119 of this title. Notification to Congress of Reprogramming Involving Military

Construction

Funds Pub. L. 118–159, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2810, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2252, provided that: “The Secretary of Defense shall notify the congressional defense committees [Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives] of any reprogramming of funds made available for military

Construction

not later than 14 days after the date of such reprogramming.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2214

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110