Title: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress reports on the pilot program on acceptance by the Department of Veterans Affairs of donated facilities and related improvements.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to report on the pilot program under which it may accept donations of real property or facilities from specified entities (e.g., a state or local authority).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5955 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5955

   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress 
    reports on the pilot program on acceptance by the Department of 
    Veterans Affairs of donated facilities and related improvements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 12, 2021

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress 
    reports on the pilot program on acceptance by the Department of 
    Veterans Affairs of donated facilities and related improvements.

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

SECTION 1. REPORTS ON PILOT PROGRAM ON ACCEPTANCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS OF DONATED FACILITIES AND RELATED 
              IMPROVEMENTS.

    Section 2 of the CHIP IN for Vets Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-294; 
38 U.S.C. 8103 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(k) Reports.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this subsection, and not later than December 31 of each 
year thereafter during the life of the pilot program, the Secretary 
shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate a report on the pilot program. The 
report shall include, as of the date of the report, the following:
            ``(1) Identification of the real property and improvements 
        donated under the pilot program that have been successfully 
        completed.
            ``(2) Identification of the donation agreements that have 
        been entered into under the pilot program that are still in 
        progress or under consideration.
            ``(3) Of the donation agreements identified under paragraph 
        (2), a list of such agreements ordered by the priority of the 
        Secretary, including justifications for such prioritization.
            ``(4) Identification of the proposed donation agreements 
        that the Secretary has not entered into under the pilot 
        program, including a detailed description of the justifications 
        for not entering into the agreements.''.
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