[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 490 Referred in Senate (RFS)]
103d CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 490
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 10 (legislative day, March 3), 1993
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental
Affairs
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AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance of certain lands and improvements in
Washington, District of Columbia, to the Columbia Hospital for Women to
provide a site for the construction of a facility to house the National
Women's Health Resource Center.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF LAND.
(a) Administrator of General Services.--Subject to sections 2 and
4, the Administrator of General Services (hereinafter in this Act
referred to as the ``Administrator'') shall convey, for $12,800,000 to
be paid in accordance with the terms set forth in subsection (d)(2) and
other consideration required by this Act, to the Columbia Hospital for
Women (formerly Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum;
hereinafter in this Act referred to as ``Columbia Hospital''), located
in Washington, District of Columbia, all right, title, and interest of
the United States in and to those pieces or parcels of land in the
District of Columbia, described in subsection (b), together with all
improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto. The purpose of the
conveyance is to provide a site for the construction by Columbia
Hospital of a facility to house the National Women's Health Resource
Center (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ``Resource
Center''), as described in the Certificate of Need issued for the
Resource Center in conformance with District of Columbia law and in
effect on the date of conveyance.
(b) Property Description.--The land referred to in subsection (a)
was conveyed to the United States of America by deed dated May 2, 1888,
from David Fergusson, widower, recorded in liber 1314, folio 102, of
the land records of the District of Columbia, and is that portion of
square numbered 25 in the city of Washington in the District of
Columbia which was not previously conveyed to such hospital by the Act
of June 28, 1952 (Public Law 82-423). Such property is more
particularly described as square 25, lot 803, or as follows: all that
piece or parcel of land situated and lying in the city of Washington in
the District of Columbia and known as part of square numbered 25, as
laid down and distinguished on the plat or plan of said city as
follows: beginning for the same at the northeast corner of the square
being the corner formed by the intersection of the west line of Twenty-
fourth Street Northwest, with the south line of north M Street
Northwest and running thence south with the line of said Twenty-fourth
Street Northwest for the distance of two hundred and thirty-one feet
ten inches, thence running west and parallel with said M Street
Northwest for the distance of two hundred and thirty feet six inches
and running thence north and parallel with the line of said Twenty-
fourth Street Northwest for the distance of two hundred and thirty-one
feet ten inches to the line of said M Street Northwest and running
thence east with the line of said M Street Northwest to the place of
beginning two hundred and thirty feet and six inches together with all
the improvements, ways, easements, rights, privileges, and
appurtenances to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining.
(c) Date of Conveyance.--
(1) Date.--The date of the conveyance of property required
under subsection (a) shall be the date which is 1 year after
the date of receipt by the Administrator of written
notification from Columbia Hospital that the hospital needs
such property for use as a site to provide housing for the
Resource Center.
(2) Deadline for submission of notification.--A written
notification of need from Columbia Hospital shall not be
effective for purposes of subsection (a) and paragraph (1)
unless the notification is received by the Administrator before
the date which is 1 year after the date of the enactment of
this Act.
(d) Conveyance Terms.--
(1) In general.--The conveyance of property required under
subsection (a) shall be subject to such terms and conditions as
may be determined by the Administrator to be necessary to
safeguard the interests of the United States. Such terms and
conditions shall be consistent with the terms and conditions
set forth in this Act.
(2) Payment of purchase price.--Columbia Hospital shall pay
the $12,800,000 purchase price in full by not later than the
date of conveyance under subsection (c).
(3) Quitclaim deed.--Any conveyance of property to Columbia
Hospital under this Act shall be by quitclaim deed.
(e) Treatment of Amounts Received.--Amounts received by the United
States as payment under this Act shall be paid into, administered, and
expended as part of the fund established by section 210(f) of the
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.
490(f)).
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CONVEYANCE.
No part of any land conveyed under section 1 may be used, during
the 30-year period beginning on the date of conveyance under section
1(c)(1), for any purpose other than to provide a site for a facility to
house the Resource Center and any necessary related appurtenances to
that facility.
SEC. 3. SATELLITE HEALTH CENTERS.
(a) Requirement.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 4 years after the date of
the conveyance under section 1, Columbia Hospital, after
consultation with the District of Columbia Commission of Public
Health and the District of Columbia State Health Planning and
Development Agency, shall establish, maintain, and operate 3
satellite health centers.
(2) Persons to be served.--One of the satellite health
centers shall provide comprehensive health and counseling
services exclusively for teenage women and their children. The
other 2 satellite health centers shall provide comprehensive
health and counseling services for women (including teenage
women) and their children.
(3) Location.--The satellite health centers shall be
located in areas of the District of Columbia in which the
District of Columbia Department of Public Health has determined
that the need for comprehensive health and counseling services
provided by the centers is the greatest. In locating such
centers, special consideration shall be given to the areas of
the District with the highest rates of infant death and births
by teenagers.
(b) Comprehensive Health and Counseling Services.--In subsection
(a), comprehensive health and counseling services include--
(1) examination of women;
(2) medical treatment and counseling of women, including
prenatal and postnatal services;
(3) treatment and counseling of substance abusers and those
who are at risk of substance abuse;
(4) health promotion and disease prevention services;
(5) physician and hospital referral services; and
(6) extended and flexible hours of service.
(c) Required Consideration.--The establishment, operation, and
maintenance of satellite health centers by Columbia Hospital in
accordance with this section shall be part of the consideration
required by this Act for the conveyance under section 1.
SEC. 4. REVERSIONARY INTEREST.
(a) In General.--The property conveyed under section 1 shall revert
to the United States--
(1) on the date which is 4 years after the date of such
conveyance if Columbia Hospital is not operating the Resource
Center on such property; and
(2) on any date in the 30-year period beginning on the date
of such conveyance, on which the property is used for a purpose
other than that referred to in section 2.
(b) Repayment.--If property reverts to the United States under
subsection (a), the Administrator shall pay to Columbia Hospital, from
amounts otherwise appropriated from the fund established by section
210(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949
(40 U.S.C. 490(f)), an amount equal to all sums received by the United
States as payments for the conveyance under section 1, without interest
on such amount.
(c) Enforcing Reversion.--The Administrator shall perform all acts
necessary to enforce any reversion of property to the United States
under this section.
(d) Inventory of Public Buildings Service.--Property that reverts
to the United States under this section--
(1) shall be under the control of the General Services
Administration; and
(2) shall be assigned by the Administrator to the inventory
of the Public Buildings Service.
SEC. 5. DAMAGES.
(a) Damages.--Subject to subsection (b), for each year in the 26-
year period beginning on the date which is 4 years after the date of
conveyance under section 1(c)(1), in which Columbia Hospital does not
operate 3 satellite health centers in accordance with section 3 for a
period of more than 60 days, the Columbia Hospital shall be liable to
the United States for damages in an amount equal to $200,000, except
that this subsection shall not apply after the date of any reversion of
property under section 4.
(b) Limitation in Damages.--The maximum amount of damages for which
Columbia Hospital may be liable under this section shall be $3,000,000.
(c) Adjustments for Inflation.--The amount of damages specified in
subsection (a) and the maximum amount of damages specified in
subsection (b) shall be adjusted biennially to reflect changes in the
consumer price index that have occurred since the date of the enactment
of this Act.
(d) Assessment and Waiver.--For any failure by Columbia Hospital to
operate a satellite health center in accordance with section 3, the
Administrator may--
(1) seek to recover damages under this section; or
(2) waive all or any part of damages recoverable under this
section for that failure, if the Administrator--
(A) determines the failure is caused by exceptional
circumstances; and
(B) submits a statement to the District of Columbia
Commission of Public Health and the Congress, that sets
forth the reasons for the determination.
(e) Conveyance Documents.--The Administrator shall include in the
documents for any conveyance under this Act appropriate provisions to--
(1) ensure that payment of damages under this section is a
contractual obligation of Columbia Hospital; and
(2) require the Administrator to provide to Columbia
Hospital notice and an opportunity to respond before the
Administrator seeks to recover such damages.
SEC. 6. REPORTS.
During the 5-year period beginning one year after the date of the
conveyance under section 1, Columbia Hospital shall submit to the
Administrator, the appropriate committees of the Congress, and the
Comptroller General of the United States annual reports on the
establishment, maintenance, and operation of the Resource Center and
the satellite health centers.
SEC. 7. MEMBER INSTITUTES.
The Resource Center should--
(1) include among its outreach activities the establishment
of formal linkages with no less than 6 universities or health
centers throughout the Nation, to be known as ``member
institutes'' in furtherance of the purposes of the Resource
Center; and
(2) provide national notice of the opportunity such
entities have to participate in programs and activities of the
Resource Center.
Passed the House of Representatives March 9, 1993.
Attest:
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
Clerk.