[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6337 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6337

   To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to 
      veterans service organizations for facility and technology 
                 improvements, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2023

  Mr. Garbarino (for himself, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. Lawler, Ms. 
  Malliotakis, Mr. Moskowitz, Ms. Craig, Mr. Kean of New Jersey, Mr. 
     Davis of North Carolina, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. D'Esposito) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to 
      veterans service organizations for facility and technology 
                 improvements, 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 ``Saving Vet Halls Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS GRANTS FOR VETERANS SERVICE 
              ORGANIZATION FACILITY AND TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may make grants 
to eligible veterans service organizations for the purpose of facility 
and technology improvements.
    (b) Use of Funds.--A veterans service organization that receives a 
grant under this section shall use the grant for--
            (1) repairing or rehabilitating a facility of the veterans 
        service organization; or
            (2) acquiring or upgrading technology for such a facility.
    (c) Eligibility.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
section, a veterans service organization shall submit to the Secretary 
an application that contains--
            (1) a plan for the repair, rehabilitation, or technology 
        upgrading and acquisition activities the veterans service 
        organization proposes to carry out using the grant; and
            (2) such other information and assurances as the Secretary 
        may require.
    (d) Selection of Recipients.--In selecting recipients of grant 
under this section, the Secretary shall take into consideration--
            (1) the extent of the need of a veterans service 
        organization for a grant;
            (2) the quality of the plan the organization submitted 
        under subsection (c)(1);
            (3) the capacity or potential capacity of the organization 
        to successfully carry out the plan; and
            (4) such other factors as the Secretary determines 
        appropriate.
    (e) Limitations.--
            (1) Amount of grant.--The amount of a grant under this 
        section made to any veterans service organization for any 
        fiscal year may not exceed the greater of the following 
        amounts:
                    (A) The amount of the total cost of carrying out 
                the plan of the organization submitted under subsection 
                (c)(1).
                    (B) $75,000.
            (2) Frequency.--A veterans service organization that 
        receives a grant under this section for a fiscal year shall be 
        ineligible for any grant under this section for any of the 
        succeeding five fiscal years.
            (3) Use.--A grant under this section may not be used for 
        the construction or acquisition of a new facility.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs $10,000,000 to carry 
out this section. Amounts appropriated pursuant to such authorization 
of appropriation shall remain available until expended without fiscal 
year limitation.
    (g) Veterans Service Organization.--In this section, the term 
``veterans service organization''--
            (1) means an organization that is chartered under part B of 
        subtitle II of title 36, United States Code; and
            (2) includes any local or area chapter, post, or other unit 
        of such an organization.
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