Joint Medical Facilities Fund Act of 2026

New joint fund for DoD and VA care

If enacted, the bill would create a Joint Medical Facility Fund at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs would be able to transfer money into the Fund from their appropriations and from certain medical care collections (10 U.S.C. 1095; 38 U.S.C. 1729; the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act). Fund money would be usable for operations, capital equipment, property maintenance, and minor construction that does not need special statutory authorization. DoD transfers could also fund the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center operations. Most transferred amounts would be available until the end of the next fiscal year, but up to 2% of a fiscal-year transfer could remain available for one more year. The Fund would be run under an executive agreement with an independent review of the transfer method, the bill would repeal the prior joint-funding authority in section 1704 of the FY2010 NDAA, and the Secretaries must send a joint report within 180 days listing candidate combined facilities.