Ensuring Access to West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Easement Funds Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5094
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2019-11-14
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California

Department of Veterans Affairs

Executive agency funding and structure

Government buildings, facilities, and property

Health facilities and institutions

Land transfers

Land use and conservation
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Ensuring Access to West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Easement Funds Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires that funds received by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in connection with the use of an easement or right-of-way at the VA's West Los Angeles Campus in Los Angeles, California, be treated as revenue to be used exclusively for the renovation and maintenance of the land and facilities at the campus.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5094 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 14, 2019 Mr. Ted Lieu of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to credit applicable medical facilities accounts at the West Los Angeles Campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Los Angeles, California with revenues received pursuant to the use of easements at the Campus.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Access to West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Easement Funds Act of 2019 . 2. Revenues received from the use of easements Section 2(e) of the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 ( Public Law 114–226 ; 38 U.S.C. 101 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (4) Revenues Any funds received by the Secretary pursuant to the use of an easement or right-of-way authorized under paragraph (1) shall be credited to the applicable Department medical facilities account (as determined by the Secretary) and shall be available, without fiscal year limitation and without further appropriation, exclusively for the renovation and maintenance of the land and facilities at the Campus. .