[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3716]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2758. Mr. INHOFE (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. 
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1066. PLANS TO IMPROVE MEDICAL FACILITIES OF THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

       (a) Plans Required.--
       (1) Plans of directors of medical facilities.--Not later 
     than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall require each director of 
     a medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs to 
     submit to the director of the Veterans Integrated Service 
     Network that covers the facility a plan to improve such 
     facility.
       (2) Plans of directors of veterans integrated service 
     networks.--The Secretary shall require each director of a 
     Veterans Integrated Service Network to submit to the 
     Secretary, not later than 60 days after receiving all of the 
     plans under paragraph (1), a plan, based on the plans 
     received under paragraph (1), to improve the facilities 
     within the Veterans Integrated Service Network in such a 
     fashion that would improve the ability of all facilities 
     within the network to provide the best and most efficient 
     care to their patients.
       (b) Regular Reports.--The Secretary shall ensure that each 
     director of a Veterans Integrated Service Network submits to 
     the Secretary, not later than two years after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and not less frequently than once every 
     two years thereafter, a report on the actions taken by the 
     director to improve the facilities within that Veterans 
     Integrated Service Network and what further such actions 
     might be necessary.
       (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; 38 
     U.S.C. 1701 note).
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