[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2428 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2428

To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that the Department of 
  Veterans Affairs provides temporary care in the most cost effective 
manner when patients are relocated during medical facility construction 
            and renovation projects, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 4, 2014

   Mr. Leahy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that the Department of 
  Veterans Affairs provides temporary care in the most cost effective 
manner when patients are relocated during medical facility construction 
            and renovation projects, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transparency in Cost of Veterans 
Care Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVED ACCOUNTING OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY CONSTRUCTION 
              PROJECTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 8104(b) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following 
        new subparagraph:
                    ``(F) Additional costs of providing hospital care 
                or medical services resulting from temporary 
                displacement of clinical space required by such 
                construction, alteration, lease, or acquisition.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(7) In the case of a project that results in temporary 
        displacement of clinical space, an analysis of any additional 
        costs of providing hospital care or medical services resulting 
        from such displacement, including additional costs associated 
        with--
                    ``(A) contracting with a non-Department facility in 
                order to furnish hospital care or medical services;
                    ``(B) beneficiary travel; and
                    ``(C) the lease or purchase of a temporary or 
                mobile medical facility.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to requests for funding of major medical facility 
projects and major medical facility leases submitted to Congress 
pursuant to section 8104(b) of such title on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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