[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
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[H.R. 293 Introduced in House (IH)]







111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 293

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Labor 
to carry out a grant program to provide reintegration services through 
  programs and facilities that emphasize services for homeless women 
             veterans and homeless veterans with children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 8, 2009

 Mr. Buyer (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. 
Buchanan, Mr. Stearns, and Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida) 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 direct the Secretary of Labor 
to carry out a grant program to provide reintegration services through 
  programs and facilities that emphasize services for homeless women 
             veterans and homeless veterans with children.

    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 ``Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless 
Veterans with Children Reintegration Grant Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. HOMELESS WOMEN VETERANS AND HOMELESS VETERANS WITH CHILDREN 
              REINTEGRATION GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) Grant Program.--Chapter 20 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 2021 the following new section:
``Sec. 2021A. Homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with 
              children reintegration grant program
    ``(a) Grants.--Subject to the availability of appropriations 
provided for such purpose, the Secretary of Labor shall make grants to 
program and facilities that the Secretary determines provide dedicated 
services for homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with 
children.
    ``(b) Use of Funds.--Grants under this section shall be used to 
provide job training, counseling, placement services (including job 
readiness and literacy and skills training) and child care services to 
expedite the reintegration of homeless women veterans and homeless 
veterans with children into the labor force.
    ``(c) Requirement To Monitor Expenditures of Funds.--(1) The 
Secretary of Labor shall collect such information as that Secretary 
considers appropriate to monitor and evaluate the distribution and 
expenditure of funds appropriated to carry out this section. The 
information shall include data with respect to the results or outcomes 
of the services provided to each homeless veteran under this section.
    ``(2) Information under paragraph (1) shall be furnished in such 
form and manner as the Secretary of Labor may specify.
    ``(d)  Administration Through the Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Veterans' Employment and Training.--The Secretary of Labor shall carry 
out this section through the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' 
Employment and Training.
    ``(e) Biennial Report to Congress.--The Secretary of Labor shall 
include as part of the report required under section 2021(d) of this 
title an evaluation of the grant program under this section, which 
shall include an evaluation of services furnished to veterans under 
this section and an analysis of the information collected under 
subsection (c).
    ``(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--(1) There are authorized to 
be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each fiscal 
year.
    ``(2) Funds appropriated to carry out this section shall remain 
available until expended. Funds obligated in any fiscal year to carry 
out this section may be expended in that fiscal year and the succeeding 
fiscal year.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
2120 the following new item:

``2021A. Homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children 
                            reintegration grant program.''.
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