[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4572]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 643. Mr. HELLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. ___. PROGRAM TO ENCOURAGE MILITARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS 
                   TRANSITIONING OUT OF THE ARMED FORCES TO SEEK 
                   EMPLOYMENT WITH THE VETERANS HEALTH 
                   ADMINISTRATION.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a 
     program to encourage individuals who are transitioning out of 
     the Armed Forces and who served in the Armed Forces with a 
     military occupational specialty relating to the provision of 
     health care to seek employment with the Veterans Health 
     Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
       (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed--
       (1) to create any additional authority not otherwise 
     provided in law to convert a former member of the Armed 
     Services to an employee of the Veterans Health 
     Administration; or
       (2) to circumvent any existing requirement relating to a 
     detail, reassignment, or other transfer of such a former 
     member to the Veterans Health Administration.
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