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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2622 

To require directors of medical facilities of the Department of Veterans 

Affairs to submit plans to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on how 

to improve such facilities, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 22, 2018 

Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mrs. SHAHEEN, and Mr. LANKFORD) introduced the 

following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 

Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To require directors of medical facilities of the Department 

of Veterans Affairs to submit plans to the Secretary 

of Veterans Affairs on how to improve such facilities, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. PLANS TO IMPROVE MEDICAL FACILITIES OF 

4 THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

5 (a) PLANS REQUIRED.— 

6 (1) PLANS OF DIRECTORS OF MEDICAL FACILI7 TIES.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall re8 quire each director of a medical facility of the DeVerDate Sep 11 2014 01:48 Mar 29, 2018 Jkt 079200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S2622.IS S2622

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1 partment of Veterans Affairs to submit to the direc2 tor of the facility’s Veterans Integrated Service Net3 work, not later than 90 days after the date of the 

4 enactment of this Act, a plan to improve such facil5 ity in such a fashion as would result in the facility 

6 obtaining a Department five-star rating. 

7 (2) PLANS OF DIRECTORS OF VETERANS INTE8 GRATED SERVICE NETWORKS.—The Secretary shall 

9 require each director of a Veterans Integrated Serv10 ice Network to submit to the Secretary, not later 

11 than 60 days after receiving all of the plans under 

12 paragraph (1), a plan, based on the plans received 

13 under paragraph (1), to improve the facilities within 

14 the Veterans Integrated Service Network in such a 

15 fashion that would improve the rating of all facilities 

16 within the network. 

17 (3) CONTENTS.—The Secretary shall ensure 

18 that each plan submitted under this subsection in19 cludes sufficient detail regarding resources, per20 sonnel changes, hiring authorities, additional staff21 ing, and changes to information systems as is nec22 essary to obtain the rating described in paragraphs 

23 (1) and (2). 

24 (b) ANNUAL REPORTS.—The Secretary shall ensure 

25 that, in the first fiscal year beginning after the date that 


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1 is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and 

2 not less frequently than once each fiscal year thereafter, 

3 each director of a Veterans Integrated Service Network 

4 in which a medical facility of the Department has a one5 , two-, or three-star rating submits to the Secretary a re6 port on the actions taken by the director to carry out the 

7 plan submitted by the director under subsection (a)(2) and 

8 to obtain for the facility the rating described in such sub9 section. 

10 (c) SENSE OF CONGRESS ON USE OF AUTHORITIES

11 TO INVESTIGATE MEDICAL CENTERS OF THE DEPART12 MENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.—It is the sense of Con13 gress that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should make 

14 full use of the authorities provided by section 2 of the En15 hancing Veteran Care Act (Public Law 115–95). 

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