SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Vet-
erans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization 
Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY 
LEASES. 
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the 
following major medical facility leases at the locations 
specified, and in an amount for each lease not to exceed 
the amount shown for such location (not including any es-
timated cancellation costs): 
(1) For a clinical research and pharmacy co-
ordinating center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, an 
amount not to exceed $9,560,000. 
(2) For a community-based outpatient clinic, 
Brick, New Jersey, an amount not to exceed 
$7,280,000. 
(3) For a new primary care and dental clinic 
annex, Charleston, South Carolina, an amount not 
to exceed $7,070,250. 
(4) For the Cobb County community-based 
Outpatient Clinic, Cobb County, Georgia, an amount 
not to exceed $6,409,000. 
(5) For the Leeward Outpatient Healthcare Ac-
cess Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, including a co-lo-
cated clinic with the Department of Defense and the
co-location of the Honolulu Regional Office of the 
Veterans Benefits Administration and the Kapolei 
Vet Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
an amount not to exceed $15,887,370. 
(6) For a community-based outpatient clinic, 
Johnson County, Kansas, an amount not to exceed 
$2,263,000. 
(7) For a replacement community-based out-
patient clinic, Lafayette, Louisiana, an amount not 
to exceed $2,996,000. 
(8) For a community-based outpatient clinic, 
Lake Charles, Louisiana, an amount not to exceed 
$2,626,000. 
(9) For outpatient clinic consolidation, New 
Port Richey, Florida, an amount not to exceed 
$11,927,000. 
(10) For an outpatient clinic, Ponce, Puerto 
Rico, an amount not to exceed $11,535,000. 
(11) For lease consolidation, San Antonio, 
Texas, an amount not to exceed $19,426,000. 
(12) For a community-based outpatient clinic, 
San Diego, California, an amount not to exceed 
$11,946,100. 
(13) For an outpatient clinic, Tyler, Texas, an 
amount not to exceed $4,327,000.
(14) For the Errera Community Care Center, 
West Haven, Connecticut, an amount not to exceed 
$4,883,000. 
(15) For the Worcester community-based Out-
patient Clinic, Worcester, Massachusetts, an amount 
not to exceed $4,855,000. 
(16) For the expansion of a community-based 
outpatient clinic, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, an 
amount not to exceed $4,232,060. 
(17) For a multispecialty clinic, Chattanooga, 
Tennessee, an amount not to exceed $7,069,000. 
(18) For the expansion of a community-based 
outpatient clinic, Chico, California, an amount not to 
exceed $4,534,000. 
(19) For a community-based outpatient clinic, 
Chula Vista, California, an amount not to exceed 
$3,714,000. 
(20) For a new research lease, Hines, Illinois, 
an amount not to exceed $22,032,000. 
(21) For a replacement research lease, Hous-
ton, Texas, an amount not to exceed $6,142,000. 
(22) For a community-based outpatient clinic, 
Lincoln, Nebraska, an amount not to exceed 
$7,178,400.
(23) For a community-based outpatient clinic, 
Lubbock, 
Texas, 
an 
amount 
not 
to 
exceed 
$8,554,000. 
(24) For a community-based outpatient clinic 
consolidation, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, an 
amount not to exceed $8,022,000. 
(25) For a community-based outpatient clinic, 
Phoenix, Arizona, an amount not to exceed 
$20,757,000. 
(26) For the expansion of a community-based 
outpatient clinic, Redding, California, an amount not 
to exceed $8,154,000. 
(27) For the expansion of a community-based 
outpatient clinic, Tulsa, Oklahoma, an amount not 
to exceed $13,269,200. 
SEC. 3. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF VET-
ERANS AFFAIRS MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITIES 
LEASES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Title 31, United States Code, requires the 
Department of Veterans Affairs to record the full 
cost of its contractual obligation against funds avail-
able at the time a contract is executed. 
(2) Office of Management and Budget Circular 
A–11 provides guidance to agencies in meeting the
statutory requirements under title 31, United States 
Code, with respect to leases. 
(3) For operating leases, Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A–11 requires the Department 
of Veterans Affairs to record up-front budget au-
thority in an ‘‘amount equal to total payments under 
the full term of the lease or [an] amount sufficient 
to cover first year lease payments plus cancellation 
costs’’. 
(b) REQUIREMENT
FOR
OBLIGATION
OF
FULL 
COST.—Subject to the availability of appropriations pro-
vided in advance, in exercising the authority of the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs to enter into leases provided 
in this Act, the Secretary shall record, pursuant to section 
1501 of title 31, United States Code, as the full cost of 
the contractual obligation at the time a contract is exe-
cuted either— 
(1) an amount equal to total payments under 
the full term of the lease; or 
(2) if the lease specifies payments to be made 
in the event the lease is terminated before its full 
term, an amount sufficient to cover the first year 
lease payments plus the specified cancellation costs. 
(c) TRANSPARENCY.—