Title: VA Electronic Health Record Transparency Act of 2021
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
VA Electronic Health Record Transparency Act of 2021
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to report on the costs of its Electronic Health Record Modernization Program, including by describing all expenses driven by the program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4591 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4591

   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress 
  periodic reports on the costs of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
            Electronic Health Record Modernization program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 2021

 Mr. Mrvan (for himself, Mr. Takano, Mr. Bost, Mrs. Lee of Nevada, and 
  Mr. Brown) 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 
  periodic reports on the costs of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
            Electronic Health Record Modernization program.

    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 Electronic Health Record 
Transparency Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. REPORTS ON COSTS OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ELECTRONIC 
              HEALTH RECORD MODERNIZATION PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter until the 
termination date specified in subsection (b), the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the 
Senate and House of Representatives a report on the costs of the 
Electronic Health Record Modernization program of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs. Each such report shall include, for the period 
covered by the report and for the total period beginning on the date of 
the enactment of this Act and ending on the date of the submittal of 
the report, a description of all actual expenses driven by such 
program, including--
            (1) any funds expended from the budget of the Veterans 
        Health Administration, the Office of Information and 
        Technology, or any other program;
            (2) direct and indirect funds;
            (3) any amount expended on an infrastructure project 
        necessitated or expedited by the Electronic Health Record 
        Modernization program that the Secretary determines would have 
        been obligated or expended even in the absence of such program; 
        and
            (4) any expenditure associated with consultants that are 
        not included in the Electronic Health Record Modernization 
        program contract.
    (b) Termination Date.--The requirement to submit a report under 
subsection (a) shall terminate on the date that is 180 days after the 
date on which the Secretary submits to the Committees on Veterans' 
Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives certification that 
the Electronic Health Record Modernization program has been fully 
implemented.
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