VA Expiring Authorities Extension Act of 2013

Summary: (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on December 10, 2013.   VA Expiring Authorities Extension Act of 2013 - (Sec. 4) Extends through FY2015 the authorization of appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) payment by the VA Secretary of a monthly assistance allowance to disabled veterans (veterans) and members of the Armed Forces (members) training or competing for the U.S. Paralympic Team, and (2) a program for establishing and carrying out related programs and events. (Sec. 5) Allows any entity with significant experience in managing large-scale adaptive sports programs (under current law, only the United States Olympic Committee) to receive VA grants for planning, developing, managing, and implementing programs to provide adaptive sports opportunities for veterans and members. Extends funding assistance to include any such opportunities occurring during FY2010-FY2016. Requires a report from the Comptroller General on the use of such funds during the first program year after the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 6) Extends through 2014: (1) VA authority to transport individuals to and from VA facilities in connection with vocational rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, or care; (2) VA authority to operate a regional office in the Republic of the Philippines; (3) the VA requirement to provide nursing home care to any veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 70% or more and in need of such care; (4) VA authority to provide treatment, rehabilitation, and related services for seriously mentally ill and homeless veterans; (5) VA authority to provide expanded services and housing assistance to homeless veterans; (6) the Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans; (7) the Veterans' Advisory Commission on Education; and (8) the temporary authority for the performance of VA medical disability examinations by contract physicians. (Sec. 13) Extends through FY2014 VA requirements resulting from default on VA-guaranteed loans.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``VA Expiring 
Authorities Extension Act of 2013''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. References to title 38, United States Code.
Sec. 3. Scoring of budgetary effects.
Sec. 4. Extension of authorization of appropriations for payment of a 
          monthly assistance allowance to disabled veterans training or 
          competing in large-scale adaptive sports programs.
Sec. 5. Reauthorization and modification of adaptive sports assistance 
          program.
Sec. 6. Extension of authority to transport certain individuals to and 
          from Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.
Sec. 7. Extension of authority for operation of the Department of 
          Veterans Affairs regional office in Manila, the Republic of 
          the Philippines.
Sec. 8. Extension of requirement to provide nursing home care to certain 
          veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Sec. 9. Extension of treatment and rehabilitation services for seriously 
          mentally ill and homeless veterans.
Sec. 10. Extension of authority to provide housing assistance for 
          homeless veterans.
Sec. 11. Extension of authority for the Advisory Committee on Homeless 
          Veterans.
Sec. 12. Extension of authority for the Veterans' Advisory Commission on 
          Education.
Sec. 13. Extension of requirements relating to vendee loans.
Sec. 14. Extension of authority for the performance of medical 
          disabilities examinations by contract physicians.
SEC. 2. REFERENCES TO TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE.
    Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an 
amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal 
of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to 
be made to a section or other provision of title 38, United States 
Code.
SEC. 3. SCORING OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.
    The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by 
reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that 
such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.
SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR PAYMENT OF A 
MONTHLY ASSISTANCE ALLOWANCE TO DISABLED VETERANS TRAINING OR COMPETING 
IN LARGE-SCALE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAMS.
    (a) Reauthorization and Use of Certain Funds.--Subsection (d)(4) of 
section 322 is amended by striking ``through 2013'' and all that 
follows and inserting ``through 2015.''.
    (b) Cooperation With Organization.--Subsection (b)(4) of such 
section is amended by striking ``cooperate with the United States 
Olympic Committee'' and all that follows through ``its partners;'' and 
inserting ``cooperate with entities with significant experience in 
managing large-scale adaptive sports programs;''.
    (c) Applicability to Commonwealths and Territories of the United 
States.--Such section is further amended by redesignating subsection 
(e) as subsection (f) and inserting after subsection (d) the following 
new subsection (e):
    ``(e) Applicability to Commonwealths and Territories of the United 
States.--The provisions of this subsection shall apply in the same 
manner and to the same degree as to the United States Olympic Committee 
to the Paralympic sport entities the Secretary considers appropriate to 
represent the interests of each of the following:
        ``(1) American Samoa.
        ``(2) Guam.
        ``(3) Puerto Rico.
        ``(4) The Northern Mariana Islands.
        ``(5) The United States Virgin Islands.''.
SEC. 5. REAUTHORIZATION AND MODIFICATION OF ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSISTANCE 
PROGRAM.
    (a) Reauthorization.--Subsection (a) of section 521A is amended to 
read as follows:
    ``(a) Adaptive Sports Program.--(1) The Secretary may carry out a 
program under which the Secretary may make grants to eligible entities 
for planning, developing, managing, and implementing programs to 
provide adaptive sports opportunities for disabled veterans and 
disabled members of the Armed Forces.
    ``(2) For purposes of this section, an eligible entity is an entity 
with significant experience in managing a large-scale adaptive sports 
program.''.
    (b) Additional Application Requirements.--Subsection (c)(2)(A) of 
such section is amended--
        (1) by striking ``of all partnerships'' and all that follows 
    through the end and inserting ``of--''; and
        (2) by adding at the end the following new clauses:
            ``(i) all partnerships referred to in paragraph (3) at the 
        national and local levels that will be participating in such 
        activities and the amount of grant funds that the eligible 
        entity proposes to make available for each of such 
        partnerships;
            ``(ii) the anticipated personnel, travel, and 
        administrative costs that will be paid for by the eligible 
        entity using grant funds;
            ``(iii) the financial controls implemented by the eligible 
        entity, including methods to track expenditures of grant funds;
            ``(iv) the performance metrics to be used by the eligible 
        entity to evaluate the effectiveness of the activities to be 
        carried out using grant funds; and
            ``(v) the anticipated personnel, travel, and administrative 
        costs that will be paid for by grantees under this subsection 
        using grant funds; and''.
    (c) Use of Funds for Administrative Expenses.--Paragraph (4) of 
subsection (d) of such section is amended to read as follows:
    ``(4)(A) At the discretion of the Secretary, an eligible entity 
that receives a grant under this section may use a portion of the grant 
for the administrative expenses and personnel expenses of the eligible 
entity. The amount that may be used for such expenses may not exceed--
        ``(i) in the case of a grant made for adaptive sports 
    opportunities taking place during fiscal year 2014, 10 percent of 
    the total amount of the grant;
        ``(ii) in the case of a grant made for adaptive sports 
    opportunities taking place during fiscal year 2015, 7.5 percent of 
    the total amount of the grant; and
        ``(iii) in the case of a grant made for adaptive sports 
    opportunities taking place during any subsequent fiscal year, 5 
    percent of the total amount of the grant.
    ``(B) For purposes of this paragraph, personnel expenses include 
any costs associated with an employee of the eligible entity other than 
reimbursement for time spent by such an employee directly providing 
coaching or training for disabled veterans or members of the Armed 
Forces.''.
    (d) Funding.--Subsection (g) of such section is amended--
        (1) by striking ``There is'' and inserting ``(1) There is'';
        (2) by striking ``through 2013'' and all that follows and 
    inserting ``through 2015.''; and
        (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) Amounts appropriated pursuant to this subsection shall remain 
available without fiscal year limitation.''.
    (e) Reauthorization.--Subsection (l) of such section is amended by 
striking ``may not provide assistance under this section after December 
31, 2013'' and inserting ``may only provide assistance under this 
section for adaptive sports opportunities occurring during fiscal years 
2010 through 2016''.
    (f) Comptroller General Report.--Not later than 18 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall submit to Congress a report on the use of the 
grants, if any, awarded under section 521A of title 38, United States 
Code, as amended by this section, during the first program year that 
begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. Such report shall 
include each of the following:
        (1) An assessment of how the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 
    eligible entities that received grants under such section, and 
    grantees under subsection (c) of such section have provided 
    adaptive sports opportunities to veterans and members of the Armed 
    Forces through grants awarded under such section.
        (2) An assessment of how the Secretary oversees the use of 
    funds provided under such section.
        (3) A description of the benefit provided to veterans and 
    members of the Armed Forces through programs and activities 
    developed through grants awarded under such section.
    (g) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 521A, as amended 
by this section, is further amended--
        (1) in subsection (b)--
            (A) in the first sentence, by striking ``the United States 
        Olympic Committee'' and inserting ``an eligible entity''; and
            (B) in the second sentence, by striking ``The United States 
        Olympic Committee'' and inserting ``An eligible entity that 
        receives a grant under this section'';
        (2) in subsection (c)--
            (A) in paragraph (1)--
                (i) by striking ``the United States Olympic Committee'' 
            the first time it appears and inserting ``an eligible 
            entity''; and
                (ii) by striking ``the United States Olympic 
            Committee'' the second time it appears and inserting ``the 
            eligible entity''; and
            (B) in paragraphs (2) and (3), by striking ``the United 
        States Olympic Committee'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``the eligible entity'';
        (3) in subsection (d)--
            (A) in paragraph (1)--
                (i) by striking ``The United States Olympic Committee'' 
            and inserting ``An eligible entity that receives a grant 
            under this section,'';
                (ii) by striking ``a grant under this section'' and 
            inserting ``the grant''; and
                (iii) by striking ``the United States Olympic 
            Committee'' and inserting ``the eligible entity''; and
            (B) in paragraph (5), by striking ``the United States 
        Olympic Committee'' and inserting ``an eligible entity that 
        receives a grant under this section'';
        (4) in subsection (e)--
            (A) by striking ``the United States Olympic Committee'' and 
        inserting ``an eligible entity''; and
            (B) by striking ``the integrated adaptive sports program'' 
        and inserting ``the adapted sports opportunities funded by the 
        grant'';
        (5) in subsection (f), by striking ``the integrated adaptive 
    sports program'' and inserting ``adapted sports opportunities 
    funded under this section''; and
        (6) in subsection (j)--
            (A) in paragraph (1)--
                (i) by striking ``the United States Olympic Committee'' 
            the first place it appears and inserting ``an eligible 
            entity'';
                (ii) by striking ``the United States Olympic 
            Committee'' the second place it appears and inserting ``the 
            eligible entity'';
                (iii) by striking ``the integrated adaptive sports 
            program,'' and inserting ``the adapted sports opportunities 
            funded by the grant,''; and
                (iv) by striking ``the integrated adaptive sports 
            program.'' and inserting ``such opportunities and 
            programs.'';
            (B) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following 
        new paragraph (3):
    ``(3) If an eligible entity that receives a grant under this 
section for any fiscal year does not submit the report required by 
paragraph (1) for such fiscal year, the entity shall not be eligible to 
receive a grant under this section for the subsequent fiscal year.''; 
and
        (7) by striking subsection (m).
    (h) Clerical Amendments.--
        (1) Section heading.--The heading of such section is amended to 
    read as follows:
``Sec. 521A. Adaptive sports programs for disabled veterans and members 
    of the Armed Forces''.
        (2) Table of sections.--The table of sections at the beginning 
    of chapter 5 is amended by striking the item relating to section 
    521A and inserting the following new item:

``512A. Adaptive sports programs for disabled veterans and members of 
          the Armed Forces.''.

    (i) Implementation.--To ensure the uninterrupted provision of 
adaptive sports for disabled veterans and disabled members of the Armed 
Forces, any regulations that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
determines are necessary to implement the amendments made by this 
section may be promulgated by interim final rules to ensure the award 
of grants under section 521A of title 38, United States Code, as 
amended by this section, before the end of fiscal year 2014.
SEC. 6. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO TRANSPORT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO AND 
FROM DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FACILITIES.
    Section 111A(a)(2) is amended by striking ``the date that is one 
year after the date of the enactment of this section'' and inserting 
``December 31, 2014''.
SEC. 7. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR OPERATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
VETERANS AFFAIRS REGIONAL OFFICE IN MANILA, THE REPUBLIC OF THE 
PHILIPPINES.
    Section 315(b) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2013'' and 
inserting ``December 31, 2014''.
SEC. 8. EXTENSION OF REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE NURSING HOME CARE TO 
CERTAIN VETERANS WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES.
    Section 1710A(d) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2013'' and 
inserting ``December 31, 2014''.
SEC. 9. EXTENSION OF TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION SERVICES FOR 
SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL AND HOMELESS VETERANS.
    (a) General Treatment.--Section 2031(b) is amended by striking 
``December 31, 2013'' and inserting ``December 31, 2014''.
    (b) Additional Services at Certain Locations.--Section 2033(d) is 
amended by striking ``December 31, 2013'' and inserting ``December 31, 
2014''.
  SEC. 10. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE HOUSING ASSISTANCE FOR 
      HOMELESS VETERANS.
    Section 2041(c) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2013'' and 
inserting ``December 31, 2014''.
  SEC. 11. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON 
      HOMELESS VETERANS.
    Section 2066(d) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2013'' and 
inserting ``December 31, 2014''.
  SEC. 12. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR THE VETERANS' ADVISORY COMMISSION 
      ON EDUCATION.
    Section 3692(c) is amended by striking ``December 31, 2013'' and 
inserting ``December 31, 2014''.
  SEC. 13. EXTENSION OF REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO VENDEE LOANS.
    Section 3733(a)(7) is amended by striking ``September 30, 2013'' 
each place it appears and inserting ``September 30, 2014''.
  SEC. 14. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF MEDICAL 
      DISABILITIES EXAMINATIONS BY CONTRACT PHYSICIANS.
    Section 704(c) of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 (Public Law 
108-183; 38 U.S.C. 5101 note) is amended by striking ``December 31, 
2013'' and inserting ``December 31, 2014''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.