Fiscal Year 2022 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act
Bill: S.2624 | Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon (D-MT)
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Fiscal Year 2022 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out specified major medical facility projects during FY2022. The bill also indicates the maximum amount that can be spent on each project.

To authorize major medical facility projects for the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2022, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fiscal Year 2022 Veterans Affairs 
Major Medical Facility Authorization Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECTS OF DEPARTMENT 
              OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out 
the following major medical facility projects in fiscal year 2022 at 
the locations specified and in an amount for each project not to exceed 
the amount specified for such location:
            (1) Restoration and consolidation of the Gulfport Hospital 
        in Biloxi, Mississippi, in an amount not to exceed 
        $341,500,000.
            (2) Construction of a community living center and 
        renovation of domiciliary and outpatient facilities in 
        Canandaigua, New York, in an amount not to exceed $443,900,000.
            (3) Construction of a spinal cord injury center in Dallas, 
        Texas, in an amount not to exceed $292,239,000.
            (4) Construction of a new health care center in El Paso, 
        Texas, in an amount not to exceed $150,000,000.
            (5) Seismic corrections to the mental health and community 
        living center in Long Beach, California, in an amount not to 
        exceed $387,300,000.
            (6) Construction of a new medical facility in Louisville, 
        Kentucky, in an amount not to exceed $953,000,000.
            (7) Construction of a new surgical intensive care unit and 
        renovated operating rooms in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in an 
        amount not to exceed $47,564,000.
            (8) Seismic retrofit and renovation of buildings 100 and 
        101 in Portland, Oregon, in an amount not to exceed 
        $20,000,000.
            (9) Construction of a spinal cord injury building with a 
        community living center, including a parking garage, in San 
        Diego, California, in an amount not to exceed $262,100,000.
            (10) Construction of a new research facility in San 
        Francisco, California, in an amount not to exceed $254,880,000.
            (11) Replacement bed tower and clinical building expansion 
        in St. Louis, Missouri, in an amount not to exceed 
        $135,340,000.
            (12) Construction of a new critical care center in West Los 
        Angeles, California, in an amount not to exceed $115,790,000.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2022 
or the year in which funds are appropriated for the Construction, Major 
Projects account, $3,403,613,000 for the projects authorized in 
subsection (a).
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