Title: To extend the pilot program on partnership agreements to construct new facilities for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill extends through December 31, 2026, the pilot program under which the Department of Veterans Affairs 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. 4419 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4419

To extend the pilot program on partnership agreements to construct new 
   facilities for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2021

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the pilot program on partnership agreements to construct new 
   facilities for the Department of Veterans Affairs, 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. EXTENSION OF 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--
            (1) in subsection (i), by striking ``the date that is 5 
        years after the date of the enactment of this Act'' and 
        inserting ``December 31, 2026''; and
            (2) 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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