Veterans Health Administration Leadership Transformation Act

Bill: 118-hr-1256
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Mrvan, Frank J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2023-02-28
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs

Executive agency funding and structure

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2024-12-24
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 795.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-02-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Veterans Health Administration Leadership Transformation Act</b></p> <p>This bill modifies certain restrictions on appointments in the Office of the Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).</p> <p>Specifically, the bill limits the term of the Under Secretary for Health to five years. (Currently, there is no term limit.)</p> <p>The bill also removes the cap on the number of Assistant Under Secretaries for Health, and provides that the VA may appoint as many as it determines are necessary. Additionally, the bill removes certain requirements for appointing Assistant Under Secretaries for Health (e.g., the requirement that at least one appointee must be a qualified doctor of dental surgery or dental medicine).</p>

tv_txt: IB Union Calendar No. 795 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 1256 [Report No. 118–946] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 28, 2023 Mr. Mrvan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs December 24, 2024 Additional sponsor: Mr. Murphy December 24, 2024 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 28, 2023 A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements in the laws relating to the appointment of the Under Secretary of Health and Assistant Under Secretaries of Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans Health Administration Leadership Transformation Act . 2. Office of the Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs (a) Term of Under Secretary Section 305(a)(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: An individual appointed to serve as the Under Secretary of Health shall be appointed for a term of five years. . (b) Elimination of certain requirements for Assistant Under Secretaries Section 7306 of such title is amended— (1) by striking subsection (b); (2) by redesignating subsections (c) through (g) as subsections (b) through (f), respectively; and (3) in subsection (c), as so redesignated, by striking subsection (e) and inserting subsection (d) .

December 24, 2024 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1256 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 28, 2023 Mr. Mrvan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements in the laws relating to the appointment of the Under Secretary of Health and Assistant Under Secretaries of Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans Health Administration Leadership Transformation Act . 2. Under Secretary of Health of Department of Veterans Affairs (a) Term of Under Secretary Section 305(a)(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: An individual appointed to serve as the Under Secretary of Health shall be appointed for a term of five years. . (b) Number of Assistant Under Secretaries of Health Subsection (a)(3) of section 7306 of such title is amended— (1) by striking Not to exceed eight and inserting As many ; and (2) by inserting as the Secretary determines necessary after Health . (c) Elimination of certain requirements for Assistant Under Secretaries Such section is further amended— (1) by striking subsection (b); (2) by redesignating subsections (c) through (g) as subsections (b) through (f), respectively; and (3) in subsection (c), as so redesignated, by striking subsection (e) and inserting subsection (d) .