Autonomy for All Disabled Veterans Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3309 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3309

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount paid by 
  the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to veterans for improvements and 
   structural alterations furnished as part of home health services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2025

Mr. Sorensen (for himself, Mr. Takano, and Ms. Malliotakis) 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 increase the amount paid by 
  the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to veterans for improvements and 
   structural alterations furnished as part of home health services.

    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 ``Autonomy for All Disabled Veterans 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN AMOUNT AVAILABLE TO DISABLED VETERANS FOR 
              IMPROVEMENTS AND STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS FURNISHED AS PART 
              OF HOME HEALTH SERVICES.

    (a) Increase.--Paragraph (2) of section 1717(a) of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking ``$6,800'' and 
        inserting ``$10,000''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ``$2,000'' and 
        inserting ``$10,000''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to a veteran who first applies for benefits under 
section 1717(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
    (c) Applicability.--A veteran who exhausts such veteran's 
eligibility for benefits under section 1717(a)(2) of title 38, United 
States Code, before the date of the enactment of this Act, is not 
entitled to additional benefits under such section by reason of the 
amendments made by subsection (a).

SEC. 3. ADJUSTMENT FOR INFLATION.

    Section 1717(a) of title 38, United States Code, is further amended 
by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), on the first day of 
each fiscal year, the Secretary shall increase the dollar amounts in 
effect under subsection (a)(2) by a percentage equal to the percentage 
by which the residential home cost of construction index established 
under section 2102(e)(3) of this title increased during the previous 
fiscal year. In the event that such index does not increase during such 
period, the Secretary shall maintain the dollar amount in effect under 
subsection (a)(2) during the previous fiscal year.''.
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