H. R. 1510 

One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 

the fourth day of January, two thousand and twenty-one 

An Act 

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a report on 

the use of cameras in medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. REPORT ON USE OF CAMERAS IN MEDICAL FACILITIES 

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than one year after the date 

of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 

in collaboration with the Office of Operations, Security, and 

Preparedness of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans 

Health Administration, and the Office of Construction and Facilities 

Management of the Department, shall submit to the Committees 

on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives 

a report analyzing the policies, use, and maintenance of cameras 

deployed by the Department for patient safety and law enforcement 

at medical facilities of the Department. 

(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required by subsection (a) shall 

include the following: 

(1) A comprehensive review of the policies and procedures 

of the Department regarding the use and maintenance of cameras with respect to the following: 

(A) Patient safety, including— 

(i) an analysis of how cameras are used to monitor 

staff and patients; 

(ii) an analysis of the specific units within medical 

facilities in which the use of cameras is prioritized 

to protect patient safety; 

(iii) an analysis of the procedures regarding the 

positioning of cameras; 

(iv) an analysis of the extent to which cameras 

monitor locations where drugs are stored to ensure 

that drugs are accounted for, and an assessment of 

whether this is a widely used practice; and 

(v) an analysis of the actions taken to preserve 

and protect patient privacy. 

(B) Law enforcement of medical facilities of the Department, including— 

(i) how exterior cameras are used; 

(ii) how interior cameras are used; and 

(iii) an analysis of locations, interior and exterior, 

in which camera use is prioritized. 

(2) Recommendations of the Secretary to improve patient 

safety and law enforcement, including— 
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(A) the placement and maintenance of cameras; 

(B) the storage of data from such cameras; 

(C) the authority of supervisors at medical facilities 

of the Department to review recordings from cameras; 

(D) the number of staff required to monitor live footage 

from cameras at each medical facility of the Department; 

(E) the funding necessary to address shortfalls with 

respect to cameras and the specific uses for such funding; 

(F) any additional actions required to preserve and 

protect patient privacy; and 

(G) such other matters the Secretary determines appropriate. 

(c) CAMERA DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘camera’’ means 

any video camera used in a medical facility of the Department 

of Veterans Affairs for purposes of patient safety or law enforcement, but does not include cameras used solely by the Inspector 

General of the Department of Veterans Affairs to assist in criminal 

investigations conducted by the Inspector General. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.