§ 801. APPROPRIATION OF AMOUNTS.
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In General .— There is authorized to be appropriated, and is appropriated, to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated $5,000,000,000 to carry out subsection (b). Such funds shall be available for obligation or expenditure without fiscal year limitation. Use of Amounts .— The amount appropriated under subsection
(a)shall be used by the Secretary 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. Other health care professionals as the Secretary considers appropriate. To carry out sections 301 [enacting section 7412 of this title , amending sections 7302 and 7612 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 7302 and 7412 of this title] and 302 [amending sections 7619 and 7683 of this title], including the amendments made by such sections. 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. Availability .— The amount appropriated under subsection
(a)shall remain available until expended. Report.— In general .— Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act [ Aug. 7, 2014 ], the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on how the Secretary has obligated the amounts appropriated under subsection
(a)as of the date of the submittal of the report. Appropriate committees of congress defined .— 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. Funding Plan .— The Secretary shall submit to Congress a funding plan describing how the Secretary intends to use the amounts provided under subsection (a).
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- Public Law 90–121
- Public Law 85–56To consolidate into one Act, and to simplify and make more uniform, the laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration relating to compensation, pension, hospitalization, and burial benefits, and to consolidate into one Act the laws pertaining to the administration of the laws administered by the
- Public Law 14
- Public Law 97–101Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, and for other purposes
- Public Law 91–506
- Public Law 93–409
- Public Law 92–93
- Public Law 92–76
- Public Law 94–116Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry Independent executive agencies, boards, bureaus, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and the period ending September 30, 1976, and for other purposes
- Public Law 93–137
- Public Law 92–383
- Public Law 90–550
- Public Law 403
- Public Law 98–371Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, and for other purposes
- Public Law 91–556
- Public Law 99–576To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation for veterans and survivors, and to improve veterans’ health-care, education, employment, housing, and national cemetery programs, and for other purposes
- Public Law 98–45Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, and for other purposes
- Public Law 95–392Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and for other purposes
- Public Law 94–378Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent executive agencies, boards, bureaus, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1077, and for other purposes
- Public Law 95–119Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent executive agencies, boards, bureaus, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes
- Public Law 97–272Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and for other purposes
- Public Law 96–103Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and for other purposes
- Public Law 99–160Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes
- Public Law 96–526Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and for other purposes
- Public Law 96–385To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide cost-of-living increases in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and in the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children of veterans, to provide for limited grants for special
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