S.Amdt. 643

SA 643. Mr. HELLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. ___. PROGRAM TO ENCOURAGE MILITARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
TRANSITIONING OUT OF THE ARMED FORCES TO SEEK
EMPLOYMENT WITH THE VETERANS HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a
program to encourage individuals who are transitioning out of
the Armed Forces and who served in the Armed Forces with a
military occupational specialty relating to the provision of
health care to seek employment with the Veterans Health
Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed--
(1) to create any additional authority not otherwise
provided in law to convert a former member of the Armed
Services to an employee of the Veterans Health
Administration; or
(2) to circumvent any existing requirement relating to a
detail, reassignment, or other transfer of such a former
member to the Veterans Health Administration.
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