[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2259 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2259

 To ensure that members of the National Guard and Reserves are able to 
    fully participate in the benefits delivery at discharge program 
 administered jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs to provide information and assistance on available 
benefits and other transition assistance to members of the Armed Forces 
               who are separating from the Armed Forces.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 2007

Mr. Welch of Vermont introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that members of the National Guard and Reserves are able to 
    fully participate in the benefits delivery at discharge program 
 administered jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs to provide information and assistance on available 
benefits and other transition assistance to members of the Armed Forces 
               who are separating from the Armed Forces.

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

SECTION 1. PARTICIPATION BY MEMBERS OF RESERVE COMPONENTS IN BENEFITS 
              DELIVERY AT DISCHARGE PROGRAM.

    (a) Plan To Maximize Participation.--Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall jointly submit to Congress a plan 
to maximize access to the benefits delivery at discharge program for 
members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces who have been 
called or ordered to active duty at any time since September 11, 2001.
    (b) Contents.--The plan submitted under subsection (a) shall 
include a description of efforts to ensure that services under the 
benefits delivery at discharge program are provided, to the maximum 
extent practicable--
            (1) at each military installation;
            (2) at each armory and military family support center of 
        the National Guard;
            (3) at each military medical care facility at which members 
        of the Armed Forces are separated or discharged from the Armed 
        Forces; and
            (4) in the case of a member on the temporary disability 
        retired list under section 1202 or 1205 of title 10, United 
        States Code, who is being retired under another provision of 
        such title or is being discharged, at a location reasonably 
        convenient to the member.
    (c) Benefits Delivery at Discharge Program Defined.--In this 
section, the term ``benefits delivery at discharge program'' means a 
program administered jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide information and assistance on 
available benefits and other transition assistance to members of the 
Armed Forces who are separating from the Armed Forces, including 
assistance to obtain any disability benefits for such members may be 
eligible.
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