[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6124 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6124

 To amend section 428 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to 
 provide incentives to grantees under the Continuum of Care program to 
    re-house all former members of the Armed Forces, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2016

  Mr. Stivers (for himself and Mrs. Beatty) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 428 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to 
 provide incentives to grantees under the Continuum of Care program to 
    re-house all former members of the Armed Forces, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Housing our Military Servicemembers 
Act of 2016'' or the ``HOMeS Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. INCENTIVE FOR PROVEN STRATEGIES.

    Subsection (d) of section 428 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11386b(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and former 
                servicemembers'' before the semicolon at the end; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``and former 
                servicemembers'' before the first comma; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Former servicemember.--For purposes of this 
        subsection, the term `former servicemember' means a person who 
        served in the active or inactive military, naval, or air 
        service, and who was discharged or released therefrom.''.
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