[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1905-S1906]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 637. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ADVANCING 
                   THE STATED GOALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
                   AFFAIRS OF MEETING THE HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF 
                   VETERANS.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports 
     relating to reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs 
     that improve internal processes to meet the health care needs 
     of veterans, which may include legislation that redesigns the 
     human resources and recruitment process, prioritizes efforts 
     to recruit, retain, and train clerical staff, develops a 
     comprehensive human capital strategy that addresses impending 
     health care provider shortages based on projected needs, 
     creates a stronger financial incentive structure, accelerates 
     steps to improve the agility, usability, and flexibility of 
     scheduling-enabling technologies that also facilitate 
     performance measurement and reporting functions, takes steps 
     to use fixed infrastructure more efficiently, evaluates the 
     efficiency and patient support gained by centralizing the 
     phone calling functions in facility-based call centers with 
     extended hours of operation, invests in more current and 
     usable telephone systems and provides adequate space for call 
     center functions, takes steps to alleviate parking 
     congestion, engages frontline staff in the process of change, 
     or embraces a system-wide approach to process redesign, by 
     the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, 
     provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit 
     over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 
     through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 
     through 2025.

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