[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2642 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2642

To prohibit the disposal of certain Department of Veterans Affairs land 
        and improvements in the Hudson Valley Healthcare System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2011

 Ms. Hayworth introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the disposal of certain Department of Veterans Affairs land 
        and improvements in the Hudson Valley Healthcare System.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hudson Valley VA Health Care System 
Campus Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS LAND AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HUDSON VALLEY 
              HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

    (a) Montrose VAMC.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not 
declare as excess to the needs of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campus 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs Hudson Valley Healthcare System 
(hereinafter referred to as the ``Montrose VAMC'') or otherwise take 
any action to lease, sell, exchange, trade, auction, transfer, or 
otherwise dispose of, or reduce the acreage of, Federal land and 
improvements at the Montrose VAMC, consisting of approximately 184 
acres of land located at 2094 Albany Post Road, Montrose, New York.
    (b) Castle Point.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not 
declare as excess to the needs of the Castle Point Campus of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs Hudson Valley Healthcare System or 
otherwise take any action to lease, sell, exchange, trade, auction, 
transfer, or otherwise dispose of, or reduce the acreage of, Federal 
land and improvements at the Castle Point Campus located at Route 9D, 
Castle Point, New York.
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 8162(c)(1) of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ``, section 2 (a) and (b) of the 
Hudson Valley VA Health Care System Campus Protection Act,'' after 
``section 421(b)(2) of the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 
(Public Law 100-322; 102 Stat. 553)''.
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