[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2391 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2391

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish in the Department 
                 of Veterans Affairs a Women's Bureau.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 10, 1993

  Ms. Waters 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 establish in the Department 
                 of Veterans Affairs a Women's Bureau.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF WOMEN'S BUREAU IN THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 3 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 318. Women's Bureau
    ``(a) There shall be in the Department a bureau to be known as the 
Women's Bureau. The bureau shall be headed by a Director. The Director 
shall foster and promote standards and policies of the Department to 
improve the welfare of veterans who are women.
    ``(b) The Director may assist in the development of policies 
providing benefits and other services to veterans who are women and to 
the dependents and beneficiaries of those veterans.
    ``(c) The Director may investigate and report to the Secretary upon 
all matters pertaining to the welfare of veterans who are women. Other 
responsibilities of the Director shall be--
            ``(1) to provide outreach to veterans who are women;
            ``(2) to act as a resource for, and provide consultative 
        services to, women veterans coordinators; and
            ``(3) to provide oversight of all programs of the 
        Department applicable specifically or particularly to veterans 
        who are women, including well women clinics, sexual trauma 
        programs, and the women veterans coordinator program.
    ``(d) The Director shall appoint an assistant Director who shall 
perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Director and approved 
by the Secretary.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``318. Women's Bureau.''.

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