S.Amdt. 2511

SA 2511. Mr. INHOFE (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr.
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the
bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1066. PLANS TO IMPROVE MEDICAL FACILITIES OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

(a) Plans Required.--
(1) Plans of directors of medical facilities.--
(A) In general.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
require each director of a medical facility of the Department
of Veterans Affairs to submit to the director of the Veterans
Integrated Service Network that covers the facility, not
later than 90 days after the date the Secretary establishes
standards for quality under section 1703C of title 38, United
States Code, a plan to improve such facility in such a
fashion as would result in the facility meeting all of the
applicable standards for quality established under that
section.
(B) Applicability.--The requirement in subparagraph (A)
shall only apply to directors of facilities that do not meet
the standards for quality established under section 1703C of
title 38, United States Code.
(2) Plans of directors of veterans integrated service
networks.--The Secretary shall require each director of a
Veterans Integrated Service Network to submit to the
Secretary, not later than 60 days after receiving all of the
plans under paragraph (1), a plan, based on the plans
received under paragraph (1), to improve the facilities
within the Veterans Integrated Service Network in such a
fashion that would improve the ability of all facilities
within the network to meet the applicable standards for
quality established under section 1703C of title 38, United
States Code.
(3) Remediation of service lines.--The Secretary shall
ensure that each plan submitted under this subsection
includes a plan for remediation of service lines under
section 1706A(a) of title 38, United States Code, if
applicable.
(b) Regular Reports.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall ensure that, for
inclusion in the first strategic plan submitted under section
7330C(b) of title 38, United States Code, after the Secretary
has received all of the reports required under subsection
(a), and not less frequently than once every four years
thereafter, each director of a Veterans Integrated Service
Network in which a medical facility of the Department is not
meeting all of the applicable standards for quality
established under section 1703C of such title, submits to the
Secretary a report on the actions taken by the director to
meet such standards for quality.
(2) Use of reports.--The reports submitted under paragraph
(1) shall be used to develop the strategic plan required by
section 7330C(b) of title 38, United States Code.
(c) Sense of Congress on Use of Authorities To Investigate
Medical Centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.--It is
the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
should make full use of the authorities provided by section 2
of the Enhancing Veteran Care Act (Public Law 115-95; 38
U.S.C. 1701 note).
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