Requires the Administrator (effective March 1989, Secretary) of Veterans Affairs to construct a medical research center at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.
Provides that such construction may be carried out only if the Administrator, the President of the Medical University, and the Governor of South Carolina enter into a funding agreement to require the Administrator to pay one-half of the cost of constructing and equipping the center and the State of South Carolina and the Medical University to pay the other half of such cost. Authorizes the Administrator to accept payments from the State of South Carolina and the Medical University to defray such costs.
Authorizes the Administrator to enter into an agreement with the President of the Medical University that provides for joint ownership, management, and use of the center.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.
Committee on Veterans requested executive comment from the Veterans' Administrationand Office of Management and Budget.
Committee on Veterans. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 101-443.
Committee on Veterans received executive comment from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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