Sec. 120003. Major medical facility leases of the Department of Veterans Affairs
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Paragraph
(2)of subsection
(a)of section 8104 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— by striking No funds and inserting
(A)No funds ; by striking or any major medical facility lease ; by striking or lease ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: Funds may be appropriated for a fiscal year, and the Secretary may obligate and expend funds, including for advance planning and design, for any major medical facility lease. . Subparagraph
(B)of paragraph
(3)of such subsection is amended to read as follows: The term major medical facility lease — means a lease for space for use as a new medical facility approved through the General Services Administration under section 3307(a)(2) of title 40 at an average annual rent equal to or greater than the dollar threshold described in such section, which shall be subject to annual adjustment in accordance with section 3307(h) of such title; and does not include a lease for space for use as a shared Federal medical facility for which the Department’s estimated share of the lease costs does not exceed such dollar threshold. . Such section is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: The Secretary may carry out interim leasing actions for major medical facility leases (as defined in subsection (a)(3)(B)). In this subsection, the term interim leasing actions has the meaning given that term by the Administrator of the General Services Administration. . The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to a major medical facility lease of the Department of Veterans Affairs that has not been specifically authorized by law on or before the date of the enactment of this Act and is included as part of the annual budget submission of the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2022, 2023, or 2024. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may obligate and expend funds to exercise a purchase option included in any major medical facility lease described in subsection (d). In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,805,000,000, to remain available until expended, for major medical facility leases pursuant to subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 38, United States Code, as amended by this section, as requested in the annual budget submission of the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2022, 2023, or 2024. Effective upon the date of execution of the final lease award for leases described in subsection (d), subsections
(a)through
(e)of this section and the amendments made by those subsections are repealed and any provision of law amended by those subsections is restored as if those subsections had not been enacted into law. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to Congress and the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives written notification of the date specified in paragraph
(1)not later than 30 days before such date.