[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3185 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3185

      To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to evaluate the 
organizational structure of the Veterans Health Administration, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2017

Mr. Joyce of Ohio introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
      To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to evaluate the 
organizational structure of the Veterans Health Administration, 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 ``Reforms to Encourage VA Meaningful 
Progress Act of 2017'' or the ``REVAMP Act''.

SEC. 2. EVALUATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF VETERANS HEALTH 
              ADMINISTRATION AND REALIGNMENT OF VETERANS INTEGRATED 
              SERVICE NETWORK.

    (a) Organizational Structure.--
            (1) Process.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, acting 
        through the Under Secretary for Health, shall implement a 
        process to consistently evaluate reviews described in paragraph 
        (3).
            (2) Matters included.--The process under paragraph (1) 
        shall include the following:
                    (A) Identification of the officials and the offices 
                of the Department of Veterans Affairs responsible for 
                evaluating and approving, and ensuring the 
                implementation of, recommendations made by reviews 
                described in paragraph (3), including--
                            (i) the roles of each such official and 
                        office; and
                            (ii) a description of how decisions are 
                        made and documented to approve such 
                        implementation.
                    (B) A description of how recommendations made by 
                reviews described in paragraph (3) should be evaluated.
                    (C) A description of how timelines should be 
                established to ensure recommendations are evaluated and 
                implemented in a timely manner and metrics to assess 
                the progress made with respect to such implementation.
            (3) Reviews described.--The reviews described in this 
        paragraph are reviews of the organizational structure of the 
        Veterans Health Administration conducted by the Secretary, the 
        Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the 
        Comptroller General of the United States, the Commission on 
        Care established by section 202 of the Veterans Access, Choice, 
        and Accountability Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-146; 128 Stat. 
        1773), or by an independent entity, as determined appropriate 
        by the Secretary.
            (4) First use.--The Under Secretary shall use the process 
        under paragraph (1) to evaluate the results of the evaluation 
        conducted under subsection (b)(1). The Under Secretary shall 
        make any required improvements to such process based on the 
        lessons learned by the Under Secretary resulting from such use.
    (b) Veterans Integrated Service Network.--
            (1) Evaluation.--Consistent with the report of the 
        Comptroller General of the United States titled ``VA Health 
        Care: Processes to Evaluate, Implement, and Monitor 
        Organizational Structure Changes Needed'' (GAO-16-803), the 
        Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Health, shall 
        conduct an evaluation of the Veterans Integrated Service 
        Network, including with respect to--
                    (A) the implementation by the Secretary of 
                realignments to such Network; and
                    (B) identifying deficiencies to such Network that 
                require corrective action.
            (2) Assessment and implementation.--In accordance with 
        subsection (a)(4), the Under Secretary shall use the process 
        implemented under subsection (a) to assess the results of the 
        evaluation conducted under paragraph (1) and to implement 
        changes and other actions to improve the Veterans Integrated 
        Service Network.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Under Secretary shall submit to Congress a report that 
includes a description of--
            (1) the process implemented under subsection (a)(1);
            (2) the deficiencies identified under paragraph (1) of 
        subsection (b); and
            (3) how the Under Secretary will carry out paragraph (2) of 
        such subsection.
    (d) Prohibition on New Appropriations.--No additional funds are 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act, and this Act shall 
be carried out using amounts otherwise made available for such 
purposes.
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