[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2846 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2846

   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to permit Members of 
 Congress to use facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
   the purposes of meeting with constituents, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2019

 Mr. Mast (for himself, Mr. Soto, Mr. Budd, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Higgins of 
  Louisiana, Mr. Bergman, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Mullin, Mr. 
  Marshall, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Stivers, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. 
    Kind, Mr. Olson, Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Lawson of Florida, and Mr. 
  Bilirakis) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to permit Members of 
 Congress to use facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
   the purposes of meeting with constituents, 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 ``Improving Veterans Access to 
Congressional Services Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. USE OF FACILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS BY 
              MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

    (a) In General.--Upon request of a Member of Congress and subject 
to regulations prescribed under subsection (b), the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall permit the Member to use a facility of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs for the purposes of meeting with 
constituents of the Member.
    (b) Regulations.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
prescribe regulations regarding the use of facilities of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs by Members of Congress. Regulations prescribed 
under this subsection--
            (1) shall require that a space within a facility of the 
        Department provided to a Member under subsection (a) is--
                    (A) available during normal business hours; and
                    (B) located in an area that is visible and 
                accessible to constituents of the Member; and
            (2) may not prohibit a Member from advertising the use by 
        the Member of a space within a facility of the Department under 
        subsection (a).
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