1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Modernization of Medical Records Access for Veterans Act of 2017 . 2. Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program on secure, patient-centered, portable medical records storage system (a) Pilot program Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall commence a pilot program under which veterans who are enrolled in the patient enrollment system under section 1705 of title 38, United States Code, use a portable medical records storage system described in subsection (e) to store and share with Department of Veterans Affairs health care providers and community health care providers, records of their individual medical history. (b) Selection of locations The Secretary shall select not less than one Veterans Integrated Services Network in which to carry out the pilot program under subsection (a). (c) Contracts (1) Authority The Secretary shall seek to enter into a contract using competitive procedures with an appropriate entity for the provision of the medical records storage system described in subsection (e). (2) Notice of competition Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a request for proposals for the contract described in paragraph (1). Such request shall be full and open to any contractor that has an existing commercially available medical records storage capability described in subsection (e). (3) Selection Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall award a contract to an offeror pursuant to the request for proposals under paragraph (2) if at least one acceptable offer is submitted. (d) Duration of pilot program The Secretary shall carry out a pilot program under this section for a period of at least 12 months. After carrying out such program for 12 months, the Secretary may terminate the program, continue the program, expand the program to include additional locations, or implement the use of portable