‘‘(f)(1) There is established in the Department of 
Veterans Affairs a Veterans Health Care Funding Review 
Board. The Board shall consist of three members who 
shall be appointed by the Secretary. Persons appointed to 
the Board shall have professional backgrounds and experi-
ence in health care policy analysis, health care statistics, 
health care insurance, or health care economics or have 
similar qualifications considered suitable by the Secretary. 
‘‘(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the 
members of the Board shall serve for a term of 15 years, 
except that a member of the Board appointed to fill a va-
cancy occurring before the end of the term for which the 
member’s predecessor was appointed shall only serve until 
the end of such term. A member may serve after the end 
of the term of the member until the successor of that 
member has taken office. A member of the Board may 
be removed by the Secretary for misconduct or failure to 
perform functions vested in the Board, and for no other 
reason. 
‘‘(B) Of the members of the Board who are first ap-
pointed under this paragraph, one each shall be appointed 
for terms ending five, ten, and 15 years, respectively, after 
the date of appointment, as designated by the Secretary 
at the time of appointment. 
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‘‘(3) A member of the Board who is not otherwise 
an employee of the United States is entitled to receive pay 
at the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay of 
the highest rate of basic pay under the General Schedule 
of subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, for each day 
the member is engaged in the performance of duties vested 
in the Board, and is entitled to travel expenses, including 
a per diem allowance, in accordance with section 5703 of 
title 5. 
‘‘(4)(A) The Secretary shall furnish the Board all pa-
pers, records, information, and other materials it requires 
in order to carry out its functions under this section. 
‘‘(B) The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall furnish to the Board complete information 
on the economic assumptions (including assumptions as 
to inflation, unemployment, revenues and expenses, and 
energy costs) that inform or guide the President’s overall 
budgetary presentation to Congress, including those as-
sumptions that would be expected to particularly affect 
health care costs in the Department, or the cost of care 
to veterans. 
‘‘(5) Funds for the expenses of the Board for any 
fiscal year shall be provided from amounts available for 
that fiscal year for veterans health care programs. The 
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Board shall include consideration of its own budget re-
quirements in determinations under subsection (b).’’. 
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such 
chapter is amended by adding at the end the following 
new item: 
‘‘321. Enhanced funding process for veterans health care.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Section 321 of title 38, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take 
effect on January 1, 2008. 
(c) REPEAL OF CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION RE-
QUIREMENT.—Effective October 1, 2008, subsections (a), 
(b), (c), and (d) of section 8104 of title 38, United States 
Code, are repealed. 
(d) APPOINTMENT
OF
INITIAL
MEMBERS
OF 
BOARD.—The initial appointment of the members of the 
Board established under subsection (f) of section 321 of 
title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), 
shall be completed not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
(e) INITIAL FUNDING FOR BOARD.—For fiscal year 
2008, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall provide 
amounts needed for the operation of the Board established 
under subsection (f) of section 321 of title 38, United 
States Code, as added by subsection (a), in a total amount 
not to exceed $2,000,000, from amounts appropriated to 
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