SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Veterans Health Care Facilities Capital Improvement 
Act of 2011’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Authorization of fiscal year 2012 major medical facility projects. 
Sec. 3. Modification of authorization for certain major medical facility construc-
tion projects previously authorized. 
Sec. 4. Authorization of fiscal year 2012 major medical facility leases. 
Sec. 5. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 6. Modification of requirements relating to congressional approval of cer-
tain medical facility acquisitions. 
Sec. 7. Limitation on authority of Secretary of Veterans Affairs to use bid sav-
ings on major construction projects to expand purpose of major 
medical facility projects. 
Sec. 8. Name of Department of Veterans Affairs telehealth clinic, Craig, Colo-
rado. 
Sec. 9. George H. O’Brien, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Cen-
ter. 
Sec. 10. Extension of certain expiring authorities. 
Sec. 11. Authorization of appropriations for comprehensive service programs for 
homeless veterans. 
Sec. 12. Reauthorization of appropriations for financial assistance for sup-
portive services for very low-income veteran families in perma-
nent housing. 
Sec. 13. Extension of grant program for homeless veterans with special needs. 
Sec. 14. Extension of specially adapted housing assistance for individuals resid-
ing temporarily in housing owned by a family member. 
Sec. 15. Extension of funding fees. 
Sec. 16. Notice and verification of the use of income information from other 
agencies. 
Sec. 17. Termination or reduction of certain benefits and services based on in-
come information obtained from other agencies. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF FISCAL YEAR 2012 MAJOR MED-
ICAL FACILITY PROJECTS. 
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the 
following major medical facility projects in fiscal year 
2012, with each project to be carried out in the amount 
specified for each project:
(1) Construction of seismic corrections for 
Building 100 at the Department of Veterans Affairs 
Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, in an 
amount not to exceed $51,800,000. 
(2) Construction of seismic corrections and ren-
ovation of various buildings to include Building 209 
for housing facilities for homeless veterans at the 
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 
West Los Angeles, California, in an amount not to 
exceed $35,500,000. 
SEC. 3. MODIFICATION OF AUTHORIZATION FOR CERTAIN 
MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY CONSTRUCTION 
PROJECTS PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED. 
(a) MODIFICATION OF AUTHORIZATION OF FISCAL 
YEAR 2007 MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECT AT DE-
PARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER IN 
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS.—Section 803(3) of the Vet-
erans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology 
Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–461) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘and a parking garage’’ after 
‘‘clinical addition’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘$56,163,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$90,600,000’’. 
(b) MODIFICATION OF EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZA-
TION
FOR MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA, PREVIOUSLY AUTHOR-
IZED IN CONNECTION WITH CAPITAL ASSET REALIGN-
MENT INITIATIVE.—Section 802(11) of the Veterans Ben-
efits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 
2006 (Public Law 109–461), as amended by section 
702(b)(4) of the Veterans’ Mental Health and Other Care 
Improvements Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–387; 122 
Stat. 4137), is amended by inserting ‘‘, including a Sim-
ulation, Learning, Education, and Research Network Cen-
ter,’’ after ‘‘Florida, area’’. 
(c) INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF AUTHORIZATION OF 
FISCAL YEAR 2008 MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECT 
AT DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CEN-
TER IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA.—The Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs may carry out the major medical facility 
project at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
Center in Palo Alto, California, for which amounts were 
appropriated under chapter 3 of title I of the Supple-
mental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 
122 Stat. 2326) under the heading ‘‘CONSTRUCTION, 
MAJOR PROJECTS’’ under the heading ‘‘DEPARTMENT 
OF VETERANS AFFAIRS’’ in an amount not to exceed 
$716,600,000. 
(d) INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF AUTHORIZATION OF 
FISCAL YEAR 2009 MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECT
AT DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CEN-
TER, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.—Section 701(3) of the 
Veterans’ Mental Health and Other Care Improvements 
Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–387; 122 Stat. 4137) is 
amended by striking ‘‘$225,900,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$277,000,000’’. 
(e) INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF AUTHORIZATION OF 
FISCAL YEAR 2007 MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECT 
AT DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CEN-
TER, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.—Section 803(5) of the Vet-
erans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology 
Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–461) is amended by striking 
‘‘$69,053,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$346,300,000’’. 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF FISCAL YEAR 2012 MAJOR MED-
ICAL FACILITY LEASES. 
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the 
following fiscal year 2012 major medical facility leases at 
the locations specified, in an amount not to exceed the 
amount shown for that location: 
(1) Columbus, Georgia, Community-Based Out-
patient Clinic, in an amount not to exceed 
$5,335,000. 
(2) Fort Wayne, Indiana, Outpatient Clinic, in 
an amount not to exceed $2,845,000.
(3) Mobile, Alabama, Outpatient Clinic, in an 
amount not to exceed $6,565,000. 
(4) Rochester, New York, Outpatient Clinic, in 
an amount not to exceed $9,232,000. 
(5) Salem, Oregon, Community-Based Out-
patient Clinic, in an amount not to exceed 
$2,549,000. 
(6) San Jose, California, Outpatient Clinic, in 
an amount not to exceed $9,546,000. 
(7) South Bend, Indiana, Outpatient Clinic, in 
an amount not to exceed $6,731,000. 
(8) Springfield, Missouri, Community-Based 
Outpatient Clinic, in an amount not to exceed 
$6,489,000. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR CON-
STRUCTION.—There is authorized to be appropriated to 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2012 or 
the year in which funds are appropriated for the Construc-
tion, Major Projects, account $87,300,000 for the projects 
authorized in section 2. 
(b) MODIFICATION OF AUTHORIZATION FOR CER-
TAIN
MAJOR
MEDICAL
FACILITY
CONSTRUCTION 
PROJECTS PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED.—There is author-
ized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Af-