To provide for the establishment of a Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) for veterans on the grounds of the Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia.

Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) work with the Secretary of the Navy in developing a site suitable for a medical facility on the grounds of the Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia; and (2) construct on that site a joint Navy-Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic as called for in a strategic plan approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5303 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5303

 To provide for the establishment of a Department of Veterans Affairs 
Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) for veterans on the grounds of 
            the Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 8, 2004

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the establishment of a Department of Veterans Affairs 
Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) for veterans on the grounds of 
            the Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia.

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

SECTION 1. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMUNITY-BASED OUTPATIENT 
              CLINIC, NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL, ATHENS, GEORGIA.

    (a) Project Authorization.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs is 
authorized--
            (1) to work with the Secretary of the Navy in developing on 
        the grounds of the Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia, 
        a site suitable for a medical facility; and
            (2) to construct on that site a joint Navy-Department of 
        Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, as called 
        for in the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services 
        (CARES) strategic plan approved by the Secretary of Veterans 
        Affairs.
    (b) Funding.--There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as 
may be necessary for the purposes of subsection (a).
    (c) Definition.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) The term ``medical facility'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 8101(3) of title 38, United States Code.
            (2) The term ``Community-Based Outpatient Clinic'' has the 
        meaning given that term in the Department of Veterans Affairs' 
        Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) 
        strategic plan.
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