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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 1950 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes. · Sec. 502

Sec. 502. Regional support centers for Veterans Integrated Service Networks

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Subchapter I of chapter 73, as amended by section 501(a)(1) of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary shall establish not more than four regional support centers within the Veterans Health Administration to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks. The head of each regional support center shall report to the Under Secretary of Health. The functions of the regional support centers established under subsection
(a)are as follows: To assess the quality of work performed within finance operations and other compliance related activities of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks. To assess how effectively and efficiently each Veterans Integrated Service Network conducts outreach to veterans who served in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, or any other contingency operation (as that term is defined in section 101 of title 10). To assess how effectively and efficiently each Veterans Integrated Service Network conducts programs for the benefit of women veterans. To assess how effectively and efficiently each Veterans Integrated Service Network conducts programs that address homelessness among veterans. To assess how effectively and efficiently each Veterans Integrated Service Network consumes energy. To assess such other matters concerning the operations and activities of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks as the Secretary considers appropriate. The Secretary may hire such employees and contractors as the Secretary considers appropriate to carry out the functions of the regional support centers. Except as provided in paragraph (2), the location of each regional support center established under subsection
(a)shall be determined by the Secretary and co-located with a medical center of the Department. The Secretary may choose a location for a regional support center established under subsection
(a)that is not co-located with a medical center of the Department if the Secretary submits to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives, before entering into a contract for a location that is not co-located with a medical center, a report describing the reasons for choosing a location for the regional support center that is not co-located with a medical center of the Department. Such report shall include the following: A list of medical centers of the Department in the Veterans Integrated Service Network of the regional support center with underutilized buildings, the number of all Veterans Health Administration buildings in such Network, and the total underutilized square footage for each medical center of the Department in such Network. The estimated cost of such lease (the annual amount of rent, the total cost over the life of the lease, and the total cost per square foot) and the square footage to be leased. . In providing for the initial staff of each regional support center established under section 7310A(a) of title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall, to the degree practicable, transfer employees from headquarters of Veterans Integrated Service Networks to regional support centers who were employed in positions at such headquarters that covered functions similar to those described in section 7310A(b) of such title, as so added. The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 73, as amended by section 501(a)(2) of this Act, is further amended by inserting after the item relating to section 7310 the following new item: 7310A. Regional support centers for Veterans Integrated Service Networks. . Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any change in the location or type of medical care or service provided by a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center, a Department community based outpatient clinic, a center for readjustment counseling and related mental health services for veterans under section 1712A of title 38, United States Code (known as a vet center ), or other facility that provides direct care or services under a law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall take effect on the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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