Sec. 501. Authorization of appropriations for health care from Department of Veterans Affairs
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There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes set forth in subsection (b). The purposes set forth in this subsection are as follows: To increase the access of veterans to care as follows: To hire primary care and specialty care physicians for employment in the Department of Veterans Affairs. To hire other medical staff, including the following: Physicians. Nurses. Social workers. Mental health professionals.
Physician assistants. Other health care professionals as the Secretary considers appropriate. To carry out the following: Section 7412 of title 38, United States Code. Section 7302(e) of such title. Subchapters II and VII of chapter 76 of such title. Section 301(b)(2) of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–146 ; 38 U.S.C. 7302 note). To pay for expenses, equipment, and other costs associated with the hiring of primary care, specialty care physicians, and other medical staff under subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C).
To improve the physical infrastructure of the Department as follows: To maintain and operate hospitals, nursing homes, domiciliary facilities, and other facilities of the Veterans Health Administration. To enter into contracts or hire temporary employees to repair, alter, or improve facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department that are not otherwise provided for under this paragraph. To carry out leases for facilities of the Department. To carry out minor construction projects of the Department.
To carry out sections 303 and 401. Not later than 180 days after the date on which amounts are appropriated to the Department pursuant to the authorization in subsection (a), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a funding plan and report on how the Secretary intends to obligate the amounts so appropriated and how it relates to the quadrennial Veterans Health Administration review and strategic plan under section 1730B(a) of title 38, United States Code, as added by section 102.
In this subsection, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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