Improving Legal Services for Female Veterans Act

Improving Legal Services for Female Veterans Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a partnership with at least one nongovernmental organization to provide legal services to women veterans. The partnership must focus on the 10 highest unmet needs of women veterans as identified by the Community Homelessness Assessment, Local Education and Networking Groups (CHALENG) survey.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3189 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3189

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a partnership 
  to provide legal services to women veterans, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 10, 2019

    Ms. Wild (for herself, Ms. Moore, Mr. Horsford, Ms. Porter, Ms. 
Shalala, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Rouda, Mr. Case, Mr. Trone, Ms. Houlahan, Mrs. 
 Trahan, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Cox of California, Mr. 
    Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. 
Stevens, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Cardenas, 
Ms. Gabbard, Ms. Scanlon, and Ms. Dean) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a partnership 
  to provide legal services to women veterans, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Improving Legal Services for Female 
Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ON 
              LEGAL SERVICES FOR WOMEN VETERANS.

    (a) Partnership Required.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
establish a partnership with at least one nongovernmental organization 
to provide legal services to women veterans.
    (b) Focus.--The focus of the partnership established under 
subsection (a) shall be on the 10 highest unmet needs of women veterans 
as set forth in the most recently completed Community Homelessness 
Assessment, Local Education and Networking Groups for Veterans (CHALENG 
for Veterans) survey.
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