VETS Act

Veterans Emergency Treatment Services Act or the VETS Act

This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to spend up to $300 million in FY2021 to construct a medical center in Jacksonville, Florida.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4878 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4878

  To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major 
           medical facility project in Jacksonville, Florida.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2019

Mr. Lawson of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major 
           medical facility project in Jacksonville, Florida.

    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 ``Veterans Emergency Treatment 
Services Act'' or the ``VETS Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECT.

    The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out a major medical 
facility project in fiscal year 2021 consisting of the construction of 
a medical center in Jacksonville, Florida, in an amount not to exceed 
$300,000,000.
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