[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[S. 1748 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1748

To permit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reorganize the Veterans 
Health Administration notwithstanding the notice and wait requirements 
of section 510 of title 38, United States Code, and to amend title 38, 
      United States Code, to facilitate the reorganization of the 
          headquarters of the Veterans Health Administration.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 1996

Mr. Simpson (by request) introduced the following bill; which was read 
        twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To permit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reorganize the Veterans 
Health Administration notwithstanding the notice and wait requirements 
of section 510 of title 38, United States Code, and to amend title 38, 
      United States Code, to facilitate the reorganization of the 
          headquarters of the Veterans Health Administration.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That except as 
otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment is 
expressed in terms of an amendment to a section or other provision, the 
reference shall be considered to made to a section or other provision 
of title 38, United States Code.
    Sec. 2. (a) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may proceed with the 
reorganization described in subsection (b) of this section without 
regard to section 510 of title 38, United States Code.
    (b) The administrative reorganization referred to in subsection (a) 
is the reorganization of the Veterans Health Administration of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs as that reorganization and related 
activity are described in a letter dated March 17, 1995, and the 
detailed plan and justification enclosed therewith, submitted by the 
Secretary to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives pursuant to section 510 of title 38, United 
States Code.
    Sec. 3. Section 7305 is amended to read as follows: ``The Veterans 
Health Administration shall include the Office of the Under Secretary 
for Health and such professional and auxiliary services as the 
Secretary may find to be necessary to carry out the functions of the 
Administration.''.
    Sec. 4. Section 7306 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``and who shall be a qualified 
                doctor of medicine'' in paragraph (2);
                    (B) by striking paragraphs (5) and (6) and 
                redesignating paragraphs (7), (8), and (9) as 
                paragraphs (5), (6), and (7).
            (2) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
    ``(b) Of the Assistant Under Secretaries for Health appointed under 
subsection (a)(3), not more than two may be persons qualified in the 
administration of health services who are not doctors of medicine, 
dental surgery, or dental medicines.''.
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