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Union Calendar No. 674 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5938 
[Report No. 115–871] 
To amend the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act to direct the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs to establish a vacancy and recruitment database 
to facilitate the recruitment of certain members of the Armed Forces 
to satisfy the occupational needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
to establish and implement a training and certification program for 
intermediate care technicians in that Department, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 23, 2018 
Miss GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N of Puerto Rico introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
JULY 24, 2018 
Additional sponsor: Mr. COFFMAN 
JULY 24, 2018 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 23, 2018] 
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A BILL 
To amend the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act to 
direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a 
vacancy and recruitment database to facilitate the re-
cruitment of certain members of the Armed Forces to 
satisfy the occupational needs of the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs, to establish and implement a training and 
certification program for intermediate care technicians 
in that Department, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans Serving Vet-
erans Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. RECRUITMENT DATABASE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Section 208 of the VA Choice 
and Quality Employment Act of 2017 (Public Law 115– 
46; 38 U.S.C. 701 note) is amended as follows: 
(1) In subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter proceeding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘a single database’’ and inserting 
‘‘and maintain a single searchable database (to 
be known as the ‘Departments of Defense and 
Veterans Affairs Recruitment Database’)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) with respect to each vacant position under 
paragraphs (1) and (2)— 
‘‘(A) the military occupational specialty or 
skill that corresponds to the position, as deter-
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mined by the Secretary, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Defense; and 
‘‘(B) each qualified member of the Armed 
Forces who may be recruited to fill the position 
before such qualified member of the Armed 
Forces has been discharged and released from ac-
tive duty.’’. 
(2) By redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) 
as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively. 
(3) By inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsections: 
‘‘(b) ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION.—Subject to sub-
section (c), the database established under subsection (a) 
shall include, with respect to each qualified member of the 
Armed Forces, the following information: 
‘‘(1) The name and contact information of the 
qualified member of the Armed Forces. 
‘‘(2) The date on which the qualified member of 
the Armed Forces is expected to be discharged and re-
leased from active duty. 
‘‘(3) Each military occupational specialty cur-
rently or previously assigned to the qualified member 
of the Armed Forces. 
‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY.—Information in the database shall 
be available to offices, officials, and employees of the De-
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partment of Veterans Affairs to the extent the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs determines appropriate. 
‘‘(d) EXPEDITED HIRING PROCEDURES.—The Sec-
retary shall hire qualified members of the Armed Forces 
who apply for vacant positions listed in the database estab-
lished under subsection (a) without regard to the provisions 
of subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code. 
‘‘(e) RELOCATION BONUS.—The Secretary may au-
thorize a relocation bonus, in an amount determined appro-
priate by the Secretary and subject to the same limitations 
as in the case of the authority provided under section 5753 
of title 5, to any qualified member of the Armed Forces who 
has accepted a position listed in the database established 
under subsection (a).’’. 
(4) In subsection (g)(1), as redesignated in para-
graph (2), by striking ‘‘subsection (b)’’ and inserting 
‘‘subsection (g)’’. 
(5) In subsection (h), as redesignated in para-
graph (2), by striking ‘‘of this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘of 
the Veterans Serving Veterans Act of 2018, and annu-
ally thereafter’’. 
(6) By adding after subsection (h), as redesig-
nated in paragraph (2), the following new subsection: 
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‘‘(i) QUALIFIED MEMBER OF THE ARMED FORCES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘qualified member of the 
Armed Forces’ means a member of the Armed Forces— 
‘‘(1) described in section 1142(a) of title 10; 
‘‘(2) who elects to be listed in the database estab-
lished under subsection (a); and 
‘‘(3) who has been determined by the Secretary, 
in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to have 
a military occupational speciality that corresponds to 
a vacant position described in subsection (a).’’. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Vet-
erans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Sen-
ate a plan to implement, including a timeline, section 208 
of the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 
(Public Law 115–46; 38 U.S.C. 701 note), as amended by 
this section. 
SEC. 3. INTERMEDIATE CARE TECHNICIAN TRAINING PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs shall implement a program to train and certify cov-
ered veterans to work as intermediate care technicians in 
the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
(b) LOCATIONS.— 
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(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish centers at medical facilities of the Department se-
lected by the Secretary for the purposes of carrying 
out the program under subsection (a). 
(2) SELECTION OF MEDICAL FACILITIES.—In se-
lecting a medical facility of the Department under 
this subsection to serve as a center, the Secretary shall 
consider— 
(A) the experience and success of the facility 
in training intermediate care technicians; and 
(B) the availability of resources of the facil-
ity to train intermediate care technicians. 
(c) COVERED VETERAN DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘‘covered veteran’’ means a veteran whom the Sec-
retary determines served as a basic health care technician 
while serving in the Armed Forces. 
SEC. 4. NO AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out section 208 of the VA Choice and Quality Em-
ployment Act of 2017 (Public Law 115–46; 38 U.S.C. 701 
note), as amended by section 2 of this Act, or to carry out 
section 3 of this Act. Such sections shall be carried out using 
amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated for such 
purpose. 
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