[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 17, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2895]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3980. Mr. FLAKE (for himself and Mr. McCain) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. 
Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill 
H.R. 2577, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, 
and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title II of division B, add the following:
       Sec. 251.  Not later than September 30, 2017, the Secretary 
     of Veterans Affairs shall submit to Congress a plan on 
     modernizing the system of the Veterans Health Administration 
     for processing claims by non-Department of Veterans Affairs 
     health care providers for reimbursement for health care 
     provided to veterans under the laws administered by the 
     Secretary.
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