§1104a Shared Medical Facilities with Department of Veterans Affairs

Summary

Lets the Secretary of Defense make agreements with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to plan, design, build, or lease medical facilities that both departments will use. The Secretary of Defense can send money to the VA for these shared facilities, but only up to the Defense share limits in section 2805(a)(2) and only if the other rules in that section are met. The Defense Health Program can also fund planning, design, construction, or leasing of space. This transfer power is extra to any other transfer powers, and section 2215 does not apply to these transfers. The VA can also send money to the Department of Defense for the same planning, design, construction, leasing, or minor construction, and those amounts can be added to DoD accounts and used for those purposes, again subject to the limit in section 2805(a)(2). All transfers must follow the same purpose and period as the original appropriations and can only happen if Congress has provided the money in advance in appropriations Acts. "Shared medical facility" means (1) a building or campus both the VA and DoD will use to give health care, whether run by the VA or DoD and wherever it is located, and (2) the needed nearby buildings, parking, equipment, sidewalks, and staff space.