[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2935 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2935

   To provide for the designation and operation of the Silas B. Hays 
Community Hospital at Fort Ord, California as a satellite facility of a 
                 uniformed services treatment facility.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

    Mr. Farr of California introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the designation and operation of the Silas B. Hays 
Community Hospital at Fort Ord, California as a satellite facility of a 
                 uniformed services treatment facility.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONVERSION OF SILAS B. HAYS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AT FORT ORD, 
              CALIFORNIA TO A SATELLITE FACILITY OF A UNIFORMED 
              SERVICES TREATMENT FACILITY.

    (a) Negotiations for Operations of Hospital.--The Secretary of 
Defense shall enter into negotiations with a uniformed services 
treatment facility described in section 911(a) of the Military 
Construction Authorization Act, 1982 (42 U.S.C. 248c(a)), for the 
purpose of arranging for the facility to assume operation of the Silas 
B. Hays Army Community Hospital at Ford Ord, California, in a manner 
consistent with the managed-care delivery and reimbursement model 
required under section 718(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 1587).
    (b) Treatment as USTF Satellite Facility.--Upon completion of the 
negotiations under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall--
            (1) consider the hospital to be a satellite facility of the 
        uniformed services treatment facility, as described in section 
        721(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
        Years 1992 and 1993 (Public Law 102-190; 105 Stat. 1405); and
            (2) designate the hospital as a facility of the uniformed 
        services for the purposes of chapter 55 of title 10, United 
        States Code.
    (c) Completion of Negotiations.--The Secretary shall complete the 
negotiations under subsection (a) and make the designation under 
subsection (b)(2) not later than September 30, 1994.

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