[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5111-S5112]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3357. Mr. RICKETTS (for himself and Mr. King) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2296, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 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. 1067. IMPLEMENTATION BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
                   OF CERTAIN RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT TO CARE 
                   IN THE COMMUNITY.

       (a) In General.--The Under Secretary for Health of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs shall ensure that the Office 
     of Integrated Veteran Care, or successor office--
       (1) develops guidance for the efforts of medical centers of 
     the Department of Veterans Affairs in obtaining final medical 
     documentation after a veteran receives services from a 
     community care provider pursuant to a referral from that 
     medical center;
       (2) establishes goals and related performance measures for 
     medical centers of the Department in obtaining initial and 
     final medical documentation from community care providers;
       (3) establishes and monitors goals and related performance 
     measures for the completion by such providers of core 
     trainings and ensures that such providers complete the 
     required training course; and
       (4) takes steps to ensure that the Office of Integrated 
     Veteran Care, or successor office, and any contractor for 
     that Office communicate clear and accurate information to 
     such providers regarding the core trainings

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     recommended or required by that Office, including whether 
     such training is recommended or required.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, and every 120 days thereafter until 
     the requirements under subsection (a) are fully implemented, 
     the Under Secretary for Health shall submit to the Committee 
     on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on 
     steps taken by the Under Secretary to implement those 
     requirements.
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