[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4191 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4191

 To exclude from consideration as income under the housing assistance 
  programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development amounts 
   received by a family from the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
 service-related disabilities of a member of the family, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 16, 2019

 Mr. Carbajal (for himself, Mr. Smucker, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. 
Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Cisneros) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To exclude from consideration as income under the housing assistance 
  programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development amounts 
   received by a family from the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
 service-related disabilities of a member of the family, 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 ``Home for the Brave Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF VETERANS DISABILITY BENEFITS FROM INCOME.

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3531 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 15. EXCLUSION OF VETERANS DISABILITY BENEFITS FROM INCOME.

    ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amounts received 
by any member of a household or family as disability compensation under 
chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, or dependency and indemnity 
compensation under chapter 13 of such title, shall not be considered as 
income of such household or family for purposes of--
            ``(1) determining the eligibility of such family or 
        household for assistance under any program for housing 
        assistance administered by the Secretary;
            ``(2) the amount of benefits payable to or on behalf of 
        such family or household under such program; or
            ``(3) the amount of rent paid by such family or household 
        for occupancy of a dwelling unit assisted under any such 
        program.''.
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