Renovate and Enhance Veterans' Meeting Halls and Posts Act of 2013 or REVAMP Act of 2013 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible veterans service organizations for repairs and rehabilitation of their existing facilities.
Defines "eligible veterans service organization" as: (1) a tax-exempt entity organized on a local or area basis; and (2) a local or area chapter, post, or other unit of a national, regional, statewide, or other larger entity of which local or area chapters, posts, or units are members (but not any such national, regional, statewide, or other larger entity itself).
Prohibits an eligible veterans service organization from receiving such grant amounts, for any single fiscal year, in an amount exceeding the lesser of the cost of the proposed repair or rehabilitation or $200,000.
Makes a grant recipient ineligible to receive another such grant until after five succeeding fiscal years.
Prohibits the use of such grants for construction or acquisition of a new facility.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2142 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2142
To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to set-aside
community development block grant amounts in each fiscal year for
grants to local chapters of veterans service organizations for
rehabilitation of their facilities.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 23, 2013
Mr. Bishop of New York (for himself, Mr. King of New York, and Mr.
Runyan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Financial Services
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A BILL
To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to set-aside
community development block grant amounts in each fiscal year for
grants to local chapters of veterans service organizations for
rehabilitation of their facilities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Renovate and Enhance Veterans'
Meeting Halls and Posts Act of 2013'' or the ``REVAMP Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE GRANTS TO VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS FOR
FACILITY REHABILITATION.
(a) Grants.--Section 107 of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5307) is amended by adding at the end the
following new subsection:
``(g) Competitive Grants to Veterans Service Organizations for
Facility Rehabilitation.--
``(1) Authority.--Using the amounts made available under
section 106(a)(4) in each fiscal year for grants under this
subsection, the Secretary shall make grants, on a competitive
basis, to eligible veterans service organizations for use for
repairs and rehabilitation of existing facilities of such
organizations.
``(2) Eligible veterans service organizations.--For
purposes of this subsection, the term `eligible veterans
service organization' means--
``(A) an entity that is exempt from taxation
pursuant to section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 501(c)(19)) and is organized on
a local or area basis; and
``(B) a local or area chapter, post, or other unit
of a national, regional, Statewide, or other larger
entity of which local or area chapters, posts, or units
are members, that is exempt from taxation pursuant to
section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(26 U.S.C. 501(c)(19)).
Such term does not include any such national, regional,
Statewide, or other larger entity.
``(3) Limitations.--
``(A) Amount.--No eligible veterans service
organization may receive grant amounts under this
subsection, from the amounts made available for any
single fiscal year, in an amount exceeding the lesser
of--
``(i) the cost of the proposed repair or
rehabilitation; or
``(ii) $200,000.
``(B) Timing.--Any eligible veterans service
organization that receives grant amounts under this
subsection from amounts made available for a fiscal
year shall be ineligible for any grant from any amounts
made available for such grants for any of the
succeeding 5 fiscal years.
``(4) Applications.--Applications for assistance under this
subsection may be submitted only by eligible veterans service
organizations, and shall be in such form and in accordance with
such procedures as the Secretary shall establish. Such
applications shall include a plan for the proposed repair or
rehabilitation activities to be conducted using grant amounts
under this subsection.
``(5) Selection; criteria.--The Secretary shall select
applications to receive grants under this subsection pursuant
to a competition and based on criteria for such selection,
which shall include--
``(A) the extent of need for such assistance;
``(B) the quality of the plan proposed for repair
or rehabilitation of the facility involved;
``(C) the capacity or potential capacity of the
applicant to successfully carry out the plan; and
``(D) such other factors as the Secretary
determines to be appropriate.
``(6) Prohibition of construction or acquisition.--No
amounts from a grant under this subsection may be used for the
construction or acquisition of a new facility.''.
(b) Funding.--Subsection (a) of section 106 of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(a)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and (3)'' and inserting
``(3), and (4)'';
(2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new
paragraph:
``(4) For each fiscal year, after reserving amounts under
paragraphs (1) and (2) and allocating amounts under paragraph
(3), the Secretary shall allocate $50,000,000 (subject to
sufficient amounts remaining after such reservations and
allocation) for grants under section 107(g).''.
(c) Regulations.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
shall issue any regulations necessary to carry out sections 106(a)(4)
and 107(g) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as
added by the amendments made by this section, not later than the
expiration of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment
of this Act.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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