[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5246 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5246

    To require directors of medical facilities of the Department of 
 Veterans Affairs to submit plans to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
       on how to improve such facilities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2018

    Mr. Russell (for himself, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Cole, and Mr. Lucas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require directors of medical facilities of the Department of 
 Veterans Affairs to submit plans to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
       on how to improve such facilities, 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 ``VA Medical Center Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. PLANS TO IMPROVE MEDICAL FACILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Plan Required.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
        require each director of a medical facility of the Department 
        of Veterans Affairs to submit to the Secretary, not later than 
        90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, a plan to 
        improve such facility in such a fashion as would result in the 
        facility obtaining a Department five-star rating.
            (2) Contents.--The Secretary shall ensure that each plan 
        submitted under paragraph (1) includes sufficient detail 
        regarding resources, personnel changes, hiring authorities, 
        additional staffing, and changes to information systems as is 
        necessary to obtain the rating described in such paragraph.
    (b) Annual Reports.--The Secretary shall ensure that, in the first 
fiscal year beginning after the date that is 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act and not less frequently than once each fiscal 
year thereafter, each director of a medical facility of the Department 
which does not have a Department five-star rating submits to the 
Secretary a report on the actions taken by the director to carry out 
the plan submitted by the director under subsection (a)(1) and to 
obtain the rating described in such subsection.
    (c) Sense of Congress on Use of Authorities To Investigate Medical 
Centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.--It is the sense of 
Congress that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should make full use of 
the authorities provided by section 2 of the Enhancing Veteran Care Act 
(Public Law 115-95).
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