[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4233 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4233

 To prohibit the use of Federal funds to provide or subsidize housing 
 for aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States until the 
  Secretary of Veterans determines that sufficient Federal resources 
     exist to provide housing assistance to all homeless veterans.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 1, 2024

Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Marshall, Mrs. Blackburn, and 
  Mr. Cramer) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the use of Federal funds to provide or subsidize housing 
 for aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States until the 
  Secretary of Veterans determines that sufficient Federal resources 
     exist to provide housing assistance to all homeless veterans.

    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 ``Heroes Over Aliens Act'' or the 
``HOA Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO HOUSE ALIENS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT 
              IN THE UNITED STATES UNTIL SUFFICIENT FEDERAL RESOURCES 
              EXIST TO PROVIDE HOUSING ASSISTANCE TO ALL HOMELESS 
              VETERANS.

    (a) Funding Limitation.--Except as provided under subsection (b), 
no Federal funds may be used to provide or subsidize housing for aliens 
who are unlawfully present in the United States until the date on which 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs submits to Congress the determination 
described in subsection (c).
    (b) Exclusions.--The limitation described in subsection (a) does 
not apply to any aliens who are--
            (1) in the custody of, or being detained by, the Department 
        of Homeland Security; or
            (2) incarcerated in a Federal prison or in any prison, 
        institution, or facility receiving funding from the Federal 
        Government.
    (c) Determination Described.--The determination described in this 
subsection is a determination by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
that, based on the most recent point-in-time count data available from 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, sufficient Federal 
resources exist to provide housing assistance to all veterans who are 
homeless or experiencing homelessness.
    (d) Considerations.--In making the determination described in 
subsection (c), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall consider the 
criteria and benchmarks described in the document entitled ``Criteria 
and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Veteran Homelessness'' 
(Version 4, June 2019) published by the United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness.
    (e) Definition of Veteran.--In this section, the term ``veteran'' 
has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 38, United 
States Code.
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