Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that gun violence is a public health issue and Congress should enact by the end of the 115th Congress comprehensive Federal legislation that protects the Second Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun sales, improving the mental health system in the United States, and making gun trafficking and straw purchasing a Federal crime.

Providing Veterans Overdue Care Act of 2017

This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out major medical facility leases in specified amounts for:

• outpatient clinics in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Daytona Beach, Gainesville, and Ocala, Florida; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Missoula, Montana; Northern Colorado, Colorado; Oxnard and Santa Rosa, California; Pike County, Georgia; Portland, Maine; and Raleigh, North Carolina;
• an outpatient mental health clinic and an outpatient specialty clinic in Birmingham, Alabama;
• research space in Boston, Massachusetts; Charleston, South Carolina; and Mission Bay, California;
• Chief Business Office Purchased Care office space in Denver, Colorado; and
• replacement outpatient clinics in Corpus Christi, Texas; Jacksonville and Tampa, Florida; Pontiac, Michigan; Rochester, New York (phase II); and Terre Haute, Indiana.