Keep Our Commitment to Veterans Act

Keep Our Commitment to Veterans Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases in FY2013-FY2014 in New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

Reduces lease amounts authorized in previous fiscal years for VA outpatient clinics in: (1) Johnson County, Kansas; (2) San Diego, California; and (3) Tyler, Texas.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 902 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 902

   To authorize certain Department of Veterans Affairs major medical 
                facility leases, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2013

 Mr. Boustany (for himself, Mr. Pierluisi, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Smith of 
 New Jersey, and Ms. DeLauro) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize certain Department of Veterans Affairs major medical 
                facility leases, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keep Our Commitment to Veterans 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF FISCAL YEARS 2013 AND 2014 MAJOR MEDICAL 
              FACILITY LEASES.

    The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the following major 
medical facility leases in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 at the locations 
specified:
            (1) A clinical research and pharmacy coordinating center, 
        Albuquerque, New Mexico.
            (2) A community based outpatient clinic, Brick, New Jersey.
            (3) A new primary care and dental clinic annex, Charleston, 
        South Carolina.
            (4) The Cobb County Community Based Outpatient Clinic, Cobb 
        County, Georgia.
            (5) The Leeward Outpatient Healthcare Access Center, 
        Honolulu, Hawaii, including a co-located clinic with the 
        Department of Defense and the co-location of the Honolulu 
        Regional Office of the Veterans Benefits Administration and the 
        Kapolei Vet Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
            (6) A community based outpatient clinic, Lafayette, 
        Louisiana.
            (7) A community based outpatient clinic, Lake Charles, 
        Louisiana.
            (8) Outpatient clinic consolidation, New Port Richey, 
        Florida.
            (9) An outpatient clinic, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
            (10) Lease consolidation, San Antonio, Texas.
            (11) The Errera Community Care Center, West Haven, 
        Connecticut.
            (12) The Worchester Community Based Outpatient Clinic, 
        Worchester, Massachusetts.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION IN REDUCED AMOUNTS FOR MAJOR FACILITY LEASES 
              PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED IN PRIOR FISCAL YEARS.

    The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the following major 
medical facility leases in fiscal year 2013 at the locations specified, 
in an amount for each lease not to exceed the amount shown for such 
location:
            (1) For a community based outpatient clinic, Johnson 
        County, Kansas, authorized by section 1(a)(9) of the Act 
        entitled ``An Act to authorize major medical facility leases 
        for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2010, 
        and for other purposes.'' (Public Law 111-82; 123 Stat. 2140), 
        an amount not to exceed $2,431,900.
            (2) For the expansion of a community based outpatient 
        clinic, San Diego, California, authorized by section 901(3) of 
        the Veterans' Benefits Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-275; 124 
        Stat. 2894), an amount not to exceed $11,893,505.
            (3) For the expansion of the community based outpatient 
        clinic, Tyler, Texas, authorized by section 7(a)(3) of the 
        Veterans Programs Extension Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-444; 
        120 Stat. 3312), an amount not to exceed $3,610,775.
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