Return Home to Housing Act

Return Home to Housing Act

This bill increases the maximum rate of per diem payments provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to entities (i.e., grant recipients or authorized entities) that furnish services and transitional housing to homeless veterans.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5606 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5606

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to adjust the rate of per diem 
payments provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to grantees that 
                 provide services to homeless veterans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 15, 2021

    Ms. Williams of Georgia (for herself, Ms. Tenney, Ms. Jacobs of 
California, and Mr. Garbarino) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to adjust the rate of per diem 
payments provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to grantees that 
                 provide services to homeless veterans.

    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 ``Return Home to Housing Act''.

SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENTS TO RATE OF PER DIEM PAYMENTS PROVIDED BY THE 
              SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FOR SERVICES FURNISHED TO 
              HOMELESS VETERANS.

    Section 2012(a)(2)(B) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in clause (i)--
                    (A) in subclause (I), by inserting ``, including in 
                response to an emergency'' after ``appropriate''; and
                    (B) in subclause (II)(aa)(BB), by striking ``115'' 
                and inserting ``200''; and
            (2) in clause (ii), by striking ``150'' and inserting 
        ``200''.
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