Title: To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to study the feasibility of establishing a pilot program to assign certain officers of the Armed Forces to serve as directors of medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly conduct a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a pilot program under which officers of the Armed Forces in the grade of O-6 are assigned to serve for three years as directors of VA medical centers.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4528 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4528

   To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans 
  Affairs to study the feasibility of establishing a pilot program to 
 assign certain officers of the Armed Forces to serve as directors of 
         medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2021

   Mr. Mast introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans 
  Affairs to study the feasibility of establishing a pilot program to 
 assign certain officers of the Armed Forces to serve as directors of 
         medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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

SECTION 1. FEASIBILITY STUDY ON PILOT PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN OFFICERS OF 
              THE ARMED FORCES TO SERVE AS DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTERS.

    (a) Study.--The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall jointly conduct a study to determine the feasibility of 
establishing a pilot program under which the Secretaries assign 
officers of the Armed Forces in the grade of O-6 to serve as directors 
of medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs for a period 
of three years.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall jointly submit to the Committees on Armed 
Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate and the 
Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate a report containing--
            (1) the results of the study under subsection (a);
            (2) a recommendation as to whether the pilot program should 
        be established; and
            (3) if the establishment of the pilot program is 
        recommended, a plan for such establishment.
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