[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5353 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5353

    To establish limitations on the utilization and disposal of the 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
 Hudson Valley Health Care System at Montrose, New York, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 9, 2004

  Mrs. Kelly introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To establish limitations on the utilization and disposal of the 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
 Hudson Valley Health Care System at Montrose, New York, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATIONS ON UTILIZATION AND DISPOSAL OF FRANKLIN DELANO 
              ROOSEVELT CAMPUS OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HUDSON 
              VALLEY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, MONTROSE, NEW YORK.

    (a) Retention and Disposal.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
shall retain the property comprising the Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs Hudson Valley Health Care 
System at Montrose, New York, as an element of that system.
    (b) Limitation on Enhanced-Used Leases.--The Secretary may not 
enter into an enhanced-use lease of the property referred to in 
subsection (a)(1) unless activities under such lease include the 
provision of services for veterans, including veterans of limited 
financial means.
    (c) Preservation of Services.--(1) Except as provided in paragraphs 
(2) and (3), the Secretary shall continue to provide through the 
facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs at the campus specified 
in subsection (a) the types and levels of health care services for 
veterans that are provided through that facility as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
    (2) The Secretary may consolidate or relocate the spinal cord 
injury unit of the facility referred to in paragraph (1) at or to 
another location if the Secretary determines that the consolidation or 
relocation of the unit is in the best interests of veterans.
    (3) The Secretary may modify the types and levels of health care 
services for veterans that are provided through the facility referred 
to in paragraph (1) if the Secretary determines that increases in the 
population of veterans served by that facility warrant such changes.
    (d) Study on Housing of Low-Income Veterans.--The Secretary shall 
conduct a study of the need for housing of low-income veterans who are 
served by the Department of Veterans Affairs Hudson Valley Health Care 
System. The study shall include an assessment of the feasibility and 
advisability of utilizing a portion of the property referred to in 
subsection (a)(1) as a means of addressing the need of such veterans 
for housing.

SEC. 2. STUDY OF TOWN OF CORTLANDT PROPOSAL TO TRANSFER CERTAIN 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FACILITIES TO THE TOWN OF 
              CORTLANDT.

    (a) Study.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall conduct a study 
of the feasibility of implementation of the proposed plan of the Town 
of Cortlandt, New York, to take title to certain facilities on the FDR 
Campus (including the pool, theatre, and other recreation facilities 
and infrastructure facilities, such as roads, sewage treatment plant, 
and waterfront facilities), subject to the conditions that--
            (1) full use of those facilities be made available to the 
        Secretary for the use of veterans in accordance with the 
        mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs on such days and 
        times as the Secretary requires use of those facilities for 
        such purposes, the remaining time to be used by the Town of 
        Cortlandt for its programs and public functions; and
            (2) the proposed plan would result in a reduction in costs 
        to maintain the facilities that are the subject of the plan and 
        will be beneficial to the veterans being served by the FDR 
        Campus.
    (b) Implementation.--If as a result of the study under subsection 
(a) the Secretary determines that the proposed plan referred to in that 
subsection would result in a reduction in costs to maintain the 
facilities that are the subject of the plan and will be beneficial to 
the veterans being served by the FDR Campus, the Secretary shall take 
such steps as necessary to provide for the implementation of the plan.
    (c) FDR Campus.--In this section, the term ``FDR Campus'' means the 
property referred to in section 1(a)(1).
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