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Title VI — Medical Facilities

115th Congress · Approved Dec 31, 2018 · 132 Stat. 5368

TITLE VI Medical Facilities

SEC. 601. Authorization of Major Medical Facility Projects for Fiscal Year 2019.

(a)
In General.— The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the following major medical facility projects in fiscal year 2019 at the locations specified and in an amount for each project not to exceed the amount specified for such location:
(1)
Construction of a community living center and renovation of domiciliary and outpatient facilities in Canandaigua, New York, in an amount not to exceed $351,980,000 (an increase of $193,000,000 as compared to the previous authorization for such project).
(2)
Renovation of space for a simulation training education center in North Chicago, Illinois, in an amount not to exceed $15,980,000.
(3)
Construction of a surgical intensive care unit and renovation to expand the operating room suite in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in an amount not to exceed $29,461,000.
(4)
Construction of a new medical facility in Louisville, Kentucky, in an amount not to exceed $450,000,000 (an increase of $300,000,000 as compared to the previous authorization for such project).
(b)
Authorization of Appropriations.— There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2019 or the year in which funds are appropriated for the Construction, Major Projects account, $847,421,000 for the projects authorized in subsection (a).

SEC. 602. Plans to Improve Medical Facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

(a)
Plans Required.—
(1)
Plans of directors of medical facilities.— Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall require each director of a medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit to the director of the Veterans Integrated Service Network that covers the facility a plan to improve such facility.
(2)
Plans of directors of veterans integrated service networks.— The Secretary shall require each director of a Veterans Integrated Service Network to submit to the Secretary, not later than 60 days after receiving all of the plans under paragraph (1), a plan, based on the plans received under paragraph (1), to improve the facilities within that Veterans Integrated Service Network in such a fashion that would improve the ability of all facilities within that network to provide the best and most efficient care to patients.
(b)
Regular Reports.— The Secretary shall ensure that each director of a Veterans Integrated Service Network submits to the Secretary, not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act and not less frequently than once every two years thereafter, a report on the actions taken by the director to improve the facilities within that Veterans Integrated Service Network and what further such actions might be necessary.
(c)
Sense of Congress on Use of Authorities to Investigate Medical Centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.— It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should make full use of the authorities provided by section 2 of the Enhancing Veteran Care Act (Public Law 115–95; 38 U.S.C. 1701 note).