Title: VA Improvement Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
VA Improvement Act
This bill requires the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to identify and transmit a list of specific improvement recommendations for VA medical centers that are underperforming regarding quality of care for the most recent fiscal year.


[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5008 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5008

 To direct the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
to perform certain duties regarding underperforming medical centers of 
                            the Department.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2019

 Mr. Gallego introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
to perform certain duties regarding underperforming medical centers of 
                            the Department.

    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 ``VA Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. DUTIES OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS REGARDING UNDERPERFORMING MEDICAL CENTERS OF THE 
              DEPARTMENT.

    (a) List of Recommendations.--Not later than 90 days after the 
issuance of the end-of-year relative performance star ratings (in this 
section referred to as ``Star Ratings'') for each fiscal year, the 
Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs shall identify 
and transmit a list of specific improvement recommendations for each 
medical center of the Department that received fewer than two stars in 
the Star Ratings regarding quality of care for the most recent fiscal 
year. The Inspector General shall transmit each such list to--
            (1) the Director of the medical center named in the list;
            (2) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
            (3) the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives;
            (4) the Senators for the State in which the medical center 
        is located; and
            (5) the Representative in whose congressional district the 
        medical center is located.
    (b) Progress Reports.--Not later than 180 days after the Inspector 
General transmits a list under subsection (a), the Inspector General 
shall publish on the website of the Department and submit to the 
recipients of that list a report that identifies--
            (1) the extent to which the Director of the medical center 
        implemented the improvement recommendations;
            (2) any change in the performance of the medical center.
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