Fiscal Year 2024 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act

Fiscal Year 2024 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act

This act authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out specified major medical facility projects during FY2024. The act also indicates the maximum amount that may be spent on each project.

[118th Congress Public Law 124]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 118-124
118th Congress

                                 An Act


 
   To authorize major medical facility projects for the Department of 
          Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2024, and for other 
            purposes. <<NOTE: Nov. 25, 2024 -  [H.R. 6324]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Fiscal Year 2024 
Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act.>> 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fiscal Year 2024 Veterans Affairs 
Major Medical Facility Authorization Act''.
SEC. 2. <<NOTE: State listing.>> AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL 
                    FACILITY PROJECTS OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
                    AFFAIRS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the 
following major medical facility projects in fiscal year 2024 at the 
locations specified and in an amount for each project not to exceed the 
amount specified for such location:
            (1) Construction of a new specialty care building 201, 
        renovation of building 18, and expansion of parking facilities 
        in American Lake, Washington, in an amount not to exceed 
        $155,600,000.
            (2) Expansion of clinical space for mental health, expansion 
        of parking facilities, and land acquisition in Dallas, Texas, in 
        an amount not to exceed $93,100,000.
            (3) Construction of a new health care center and utility 
        plant in El Paso, Texas, in an amount not to exceed 
        $759,200,000.
            (4) Replacement of community living center and expansion of 
        parking facilities in Perry Point, Maryland, in an amount not to 
        exceed $274,310,000.
            (5) Seismic retrofit and renovation of buildings 100 and 
        101, roadway and site improvements, construction of a new 
        specialty care facility, and demolition and expansion of parking 
        facilities in Portland, Oregon, in an amount not to exceed 
        $613,000,000.
            (6) Initiation of replacement of the medical center of the 
        Sierra Nevada Health Care System of the Department of Veterans 
        Affairs, including land acquisition and preliminary site work, 
        in Reno, Nevada, in an amount not to exceed $223,800,000.
            (7) Construction of a new spinal cord injury building, 
        partial renovation of building 1, parking facilities, central 
        utility plant upgrades, and the seismic retrofit of the existing 
        spinal cord injury building 11 at the San Diego Health Care 
        System

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        of the Department in San Diego, California, in an amount not to 
        exceed $311,700,000.
            (8) Construction of a new research facility, parking 
        structure, and demolition in San Francisco, California, in an 
        amount not to exceed $264,500,000.
            (9) Seismic corrections for building 1, construction of a 
        new administrative building, and expansion of the outpatient 
        clinic and parking structure in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in an 
        amount not to exceed $370,370,000.
            (10) Phase 1 of the replacement of bed tower, expansion of 
        clinical building, consolidation of administrative building and 
        warehouse, water tower, and new utility plant and parking 
        garages in St. Louis, Missouri, in an amount not to exceed 
        $135,340,000.
            (11) Construction of a new surgical and clinical space 
        tower, renovation of buildings 1 and 2, and demolition in West 
        Haven, Connecticut, in an amount not to exceed $153,128,000.

    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2024 
or the year in which funds are appropriated for the Construction, Major 
Projects account, $3,354,048,000 for the projects authorized in 
subsection (a).

    Approved November 25, 2024.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 6324:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 118-627 (Comm. on Veterans' Affairs).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):
            Sept. 17, considered and passed House.
            Nov. 14, considered and passed Senate.

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