Campopiano / 1 Senator Lentz

S.S._____

A BILL
To provide three billion dollars per year to the Department of Veteran Affairs specifically to renovate existing
hospitals for veterans.
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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 Veteran Affairs Act of 2015.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS
Congress hereby finds and declares that,
1) Veteran Affairs hospitals reportedly placed patients on a secret list to evade scrutiny by federal regulators who
grant bonuses for maintaining short patient wait times.
2) For example, in December 2012, we reported that unclear policies led staff at VA facilities to inaccurately record
the required dates for appointments, and to inconsistently track new patients waiting for outpatient medical
appointments at VA facilities.
3) More than 1,800 veteran patients of the St. Louis VA Medical Center may have been exposed to HIV and Hepatitis
as a result of unsanitary dental equipment.
4) Thomas Breen, a veteran who died while waiting as his family tried many times to schedule a doctors
appointment.
5) Of particular concern is the outdated, inefficient nature of certain systems, along with a lack of system

interoperabilitythe ability to exchange informationwhich presents risks to the timeliness, quality, and
safety of Veterans Affairs health care.
6) Head committee chairs in the Department of Veteran Affairs are giving themselves performance bonuses up to
63,000 dollars, but they are really doing an inadequate job.
7) Fifteen percent of schedulers at the Veteran Affairs hospital were instructed to enter an appointment date other
than the one patient's requested.
8) While veterans have struggled to gain adequate access to care since the Kennedy administration,

plagued by staffing shortages, delays and funding shortfalls.

9)For example, we have reported on VAs failed attempts to modernize its outpatient appointment scheduling system,
which is about 30 years old.
10) While veterans have struggled to gain adequate access to care since the Kennedy administration, plagued by
staffing shortages, delays and funding shortfalls.
SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
A) The Veterans Affairs Act of 2015 shall provide the Department of Veteran Affairs three billion dollars in the first
year, then each consecutive year the amount will decrease by a quarter million till it hits one billion. This money will
be used to fix the department's debt of two billion and use the rest to renovate Veterans hospital's. The use of the
billion, will help the hospitals be able to speed up the wait time. It will also be used to clean the hospitals to prevent
the veterans from getting disease.
B) The Department of Veteran Affairs shall oversee that the money given to the Department is put to good use. Also
the Government Accountability Office will overlook the department of veteran affairs because the department has
had many scandals in head committee positions. The money will come from US Military spending and put into the
Veterans Affairs Department to help those who served in wars.
C) This law shall start January 1, 2016 and in ten years this bill shall be reviewed by congress. The person or people
that do not delegate the money to the right places shall be removed from their job. If they are using it for their own
advantage they shall be arrested and may face a jail sentence. The jail sentence should be as long as the judge sees
fit.