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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4858 

To amend title 38, United States Code, and the Honoring America’s Veterans 

and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012, to make certain 

enhancements to grants awarded by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 

and contracts between the Secretary and entities that provide services 

to homeless veterans, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 23 (legislative day, OCTOBER 19), 2020 

Mrs. LOEFFLER (for herself and Mr. ROUNDS) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend title 38, United States Code, and the Honoring 

America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012, to make certain enhancements to grants 

awarded by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and contracts between the Secretary and entities that provide 

services to homeless veterans, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reducing Veteran 

5 Homelessness Act of 2020’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENTS TO GRANTS AWARDED BY THE SEC2 RETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO ENTITIES 

3 THAT PROVIDE SERVICES TO HOMELESS VET4 ERANS. 

5 (a) RATES FOR PER DIEM PAYMENTS.—Section 

6 2012(a)(2)(B) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 

7 by striking clause (i) and inserting the following new 

8 clause (i): 

9 ‘‘(i)(I) Except as provided in clause (ii), and subject 

10 to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary may ad11 just the rate for such per diem payments. 

12 ‘‘(II) Any adjustment made under this clause— 

13 ‘‘(aa) may not result in a rate that— 

14 ‘‘(AA) is lower than the rate in effect 

15 under this paragraph as in effect immediately 

16 preceding the date of the enactment of the Re17 ducing Veteran Homelessness Act of 2020; or 

18 ‘‘(BB) exceeds the rate that is 115 percent 

19 of the rate authorized for State homes for 

20 domiciliary care under subsection (a)(1)(A) of 

21 section 1741 of this title, as the Secretary may 

22 increase from time to time under subsection (c) 

23 of that section; and 

24 ‘‘(bb) may be determined on the basis of local25 ity.’’. 


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1 (b) REIMBURSEMENT FOR USE OF HOMELESS MAN2 AGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM.—Section 2012(a) of 

3 such title is amended by adding at the end the following 

4 paragraph: 

5 ‘‘(4) The Secretary may reimburse the recipient of 

6 a grant under section 2011, 2013, or 2061 of this title 

7 for fees charged to that grant recipient for the use of the 

8 homeless management information system described in 

9 section 402(f) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist10 ance Act (Public Law 100–77; 42 U.S.C. 11360a(f))— 

11 ‘‘(A) in amounts the Secretary determines to be 

12 reasonable; and 

13 ‘‘(B) if the Secretary determines that the grant 

14 recipient is unable to obtain information contained 

15 in such system through other means and at no cost 

16 to the grant recipient.’’. 

17 SEC. 3. CONTRACTS RELATING TO CASE MANAGERS FOR 

18 HOMELESS VETERANS IN SUPPORTED HOUS19 ING PROGRAM. 

20 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 304 of the Honoring 

21 America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Fami22 lies Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–154; 38 U.S.C. 2041 

23 note) is amended— 

24 (1) in subsection (a)— 


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1 (A) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘The Sec2 retary’’; and 

3 (B) by adding at the end the following new 

4 paragraphs: 

5 ‘‘(2)(A) The director of each covered medical center 

6 shall seek to enter into one or more contracts or agree7 ments described in paragraph (1). 

8 ‘‘(B) Any contract or agreement entered into under 

9 subparagraph (A) may require that each case manager 

10 employed by an eligible entity has credentials equivalent 

11 to the credentials required for a case manager of the De12 partment of Veterans Affairs. 

13 ‘‘(C)(i) The Secretary may waive the requirement 

14 under subparagraph (A) with respect to a covered medical 

15 center if the Secretary determines that fulfilling such re16 quirement is infeasible. 

17 ‘‘(ii) If the Secretary grants a waiver under clause 

18 (i), the Secretary shall, not later than 90 days after grant19 ing the waiver, submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Af20 fairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Af21 fairs of the House of Representatives a report con22 taining— 

23 ‘‘(I) an explanation of the determination made 

24 under clause (i); 


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1 ‘‘(II) a plan to increase the number of case 

2 managers of the Department; and 

3 ‘‘(III) a plan for the covered medical center to 

4 increase use of housing vouchers allocated to that 

5 medical center under the program described in para6 graph (1). 

7 ‘‘(D) In this paragraph, the term ‘covered medical 

8 center’ means a medical center of the Department with 

9 respect to which the Secretary determines that— 

10 ‘‘(i) 15 percent of all housing vouchers allocated 

11 to that medical center under the program described 

12 in paragraph (1) during the fiscal year preceding the 

13 fiscal year in which such determination was made 

14 were unused due to a lack of case management serv15 ices provided by the Secretary; and 

16 ‘‘(ii) one or more case manager positions have 

17 been vacant for at least nine consecutive months im18 mediately preceding the date of such determina19 tion.’’; and 

20 (2) in subsection (b)(2)— 

21 (A) in the matter before subparagraph (A), 

22 by striking ‘‘, including because—’’ and insert23 ing a period; and 

24 (B) by striking subparagraphs (A), (B), 

25 and (C). 


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1 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

2 this section shall take effect on the first day of the first 

3 fiscal year that begins after the date of the enactment of 

4 this Act. 

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