Title: West Los Angeles VA Campus Improvement Act of 2021
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
West Los Angeles VA Campus Improvement Act of 2021
This bill requires that land use revenues received by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in connection with the use of an easement, certain leases, or third-party land use at the VA's West Los Angeles Campus in Los Angeles, California, be used exclusively for specified purposes on campus.
The bill prescribes that such revenues be used exclusively for

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 711 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 711

To amend the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 to authorize the use 
 of certain funds received pursuant to leases entered into under such 
                      Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 2021

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 to authorize the use 
 of certain funds received pursuant to leases entered into under such 
                      Act, 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 ``West Los Angeles VA Campus 
Improvement Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF LAND USE REVENUES UNDER WEST LOS ANGELES LEASING 
              ACT OF 2016.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (d) of section 2 of the West Los 
Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-226; 130 Stat. 927) is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(d) Land Use Revenues at the Campus.--
            ``(1) In general.--Any land use revenues received by the 
        Secretary shall be credited to the applicable Department 
        medical facilities accounts or minor construction accounts and 
        shall be available, without fiscal year limitation and without 
        further appropriation, exclusively for any of the following:
                    ``(A) Supporting construction, maintenance, and 
                services at the Campus relating to temporary or 
                permanent supportive housing for homeless or at-risk 
                veterans and their families.
                    ``(B) Renovating and maintaining the land and 
                facilities at the Campus.
                    ``(C) Carrying out minor construction projects at 
                the Campus.
                    ``(D) Carrying out community operations at the 
                Campus that support the development of emergency 
                shelter or supportive housing for homeless or at-risk 
                veterans and their families.
            ``(2) Land use revenue defined.--In this subsection, the 
        term `land use revenue' means--
                    ``(A) any funds received by the Secretary under a 
                lease described in subsection (b);
                    ``(B) any funds received as compensation for an 
                easement described in subsection (e); and
                    ``(C) any funds received as proceeds from any 
                assets seized or forfeited, and any restitution paid, 
                in connection with any third-party land use at the 
                Campus.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to funds received by the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs after the date of the enactment of the West Los Angeles Leasing 
Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-226; 130 Stat. 927).

SEC. 3. MODIFICATION TO ENHANCED USE LEASES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS WEST LOS ANGELES CAMPUS.

    Paragraph (1) of section 2(b) of the West Los Angeles Leasing Act 
of 2016 (Public Law 114-226; 130 Stat. 927), is amended by adding at 
the end the following new sentence: ``Notwithstanding section 
8162(b)(2) of such title, the term of such an enhanced-use lease at the 
Campus may not exceed 99 years.''.
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