Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Veterans Affairs Seismic Safety and Construction Authorization Act

Bill: 114-hr-4590
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2016-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alabama
Building construction
California
Colorado
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Florida
Georgia
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mental health
Michigan
Montana
Natural disasters
North Carolina
South Carolina
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Virginia
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: 

Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Veterans Affairs Seismic Safety, Construction, and Leases Authorization Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out the following major medical facility projects (each with specified maximum authorized funds): 
 
 
seismic corrections to buildings, including retrofitting and replacement of high-risk buildings, in San Francisco, California; 
 
seismic corrections to facilities, including facilities to support homeless veterans, at the medical center in West Los Angeles, California;
 
seismic corrections to the mental health and community living center in Long Beach, California; 
 
construction of an outpatient clinic, administrative space, cemetery, and columbarium in Alameda, California; 
 
realignment of medical facilities in Livermore, California; 
 
construction of a replacement community living center in Perry Point, Maryland; and 
 
seismic corrections and other renovations to several buildings and construction of a specialty care building in American Lake, Washington.
 
 
A specified amount is authorized to be appropriated to the VA for such projects for FY2016 or the year in which funds are appropriated for the Construction, Major Projects, account.
 
Such projects may only be carried out using specified funds.
 
 The VA shall submit to Congress the following information for each such project: 
 
 
line item accounting of construction management expenditures,
 
future amounts budgeted for construction management, and 
 
any agreement entered into by the VA regarding the Army Corps of Engineers providing project services. 
 
 
 The VA may carry out major medical facility leases (each with specified maximum authorized funds) for specified outpatient clinics and research spaces.

action_date: 2016-05-10
text: 

Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Veterans Affairs Seismic Safety, Construction, and Leases Authorization Act 

 
(Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out the following major medical facility projects (each with specified maximum authorized funds): 
 
 
seismic corrections to buildings, including retrofitting and replacement of high-risk buildings, in San Francisco, California; 
 
seismic corrections to facilities, including facilities to support homeless veterans, at the medical center in West Los Angeles, California; 
 
seismic corrections to the mental health and community living center in Long Beach, California; 
 
construction of an outpatient clinic, administrative space, cemetery, and columbarium in Alameda, California; 
 
realignment of medical facilities in Livermore, California; 
 
construction of a replacement community living center in Perry Point, Maryland; and 
 
seismic corrections and other renovations to several buildings and construction of a specialty care building in American Lake, Washington. 
 
 
 The bill authorizes appropriations for such projects for FY2016 or the year in which funds are appropriated for the Construction, Major Projects, account. Only specified funds may be used to carry out such projects.
 
(Sec. 3) The VA shall submit the following information for each project: 
 
 
a line item accounting of construction management expenditures, 
 
future amounts budgeted for construction management, 
 
 a justification for expenditures and future amounts, and 
 
any agreement entered into by the VA regarding the Army Corps of Engineers providing project services. 
 
 
(Sec. 4) The VA may carry out major medical facility leases (each with specified maximum authorized funds) for: 
 
 
 outpatient clinics in Daytona Beach, Gainesville, and Ocala, Florida, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Missoula, Montana, northern Colorado, Oxnard and Santa Rosa, California, Pike County, Georgia, Portland, Maine, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Ann Arbor, Michigan;
 
an outpatient mental health clinic and an outpatient specialty clinic in Birmingham, Alabama; 
 
 research space in Mission Bay, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and Charleston, South Carolina; and 
 
Chief Business Office Purchased Care office space in Denver, Colorado.
 
 
(Sec. 5) The VA shall report monthly on the status of each major medical facility project authorized under this bill until the VA's Administrative Investigative Board submits its report on the major medical facility project at the VA medical center in Aurora, Colorado.
 
(Sec. 6) The Veterans' Benefits Programs Improvement Act of 1991 is amended to authorize the VA to sell for fair market value Pershing Hall, in Paris, France, and transfer to the purchaser all right, title, and interest of the United States in the property. The VA shall, upon such sale, return to the entity from which the United States acquired Pershing Hall any personal property in the VA's possession, including memorabilia regarding General Pershing and the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. The Pershing Hall Revolving Fund shall be abolished one year after such sale and its corpus and accrued interest shall be deposited in the VA's Construction, Major Projects account.

action_date: 2016-06-21
text: 

Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Veterans Affairs Seismic Safety and Constructions Authorization Act 

 
(Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out the following major medical facility projects (each with specified maximum authorized funds): 
 
 
seismic corrections to buildings, including retrofitting and replacement of high-risk buildings, in San Francisco, California; 
 
seismic corrections to facilities, including facilities to support homeless veterans, at the medical center in West Los Angeles, California; 
 
seismic corrections to the mental health and community living center in Long Beach, California; 
 
construction of an outpatient clinic, administrative space, cemetery, and columbarium in Alameda, California; 
 
realignment of medical facilities in Livermore, California; 
 
construction of a replacement community living center in Perry Point, Maryland; and 
 
seismic corrections and other renovations to several buildings and construction of a specialty care building in American Lake, Washington. 
 
 
 The bill authorizes appropriations for such projects for FY2016 or the year in which funds are appropriated for the Construction, Major Projects, account. Only specified funds may be used to carry out such projects.
 
(Sec. 3) The VA shall submit the following information for each project: 
 
 
a line item accounting of construction management expenditures, 
 
future amounts budgeted for construction management, 
 
 a justification for expenditures and future amounts, and 
 
any agreement entered into by the VA regarding the Army Corps of Engineers providing project services. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-22
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4006-4007)
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H4006-4007)
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4590.
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4006-4008)
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Mr. Miller (FL) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2016-05-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 421.
action_date: 2016-05-10
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 114-545.
action_date: 2016-05-10
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 114-545.
action_date: 2016-02-25
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-02-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-02-25
text: Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
action_date: 2016-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House