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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3419 

To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to eligible 

educational institutions to provide child care services on campus. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 29, 2015 

Ms. TITUS (for herself, Mr. TAKANO, and Miss RICE of New York) introduced 

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make 

grants to eligible educational institutions to provide child 

care services on campus. 

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 ‘‘Support for Student 

5 Veterans with Families Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS GRANTS TO 

2 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PROVI3 SION OF CHILD CARE SERVICES. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 36 of 

5 title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 

6 end the following new section: 

7 ‘‘§ 3699. Grants to educational institutions for provi8 sion of child care services 

9 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make a grant 

10 to an eligible educational institution for the purpose of 

11 providing child care services on the campus of the edu12 cational institution to students enrolled in courses of edu13 cation offered by the educational institution. 

14 ‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.—To be 

15 eligible for a grant under this section, an educational insti16 tution shall— 

17 ‘‘(1) offer a course of education that is ap18 proved as provided in this chapter and chapters 34 

19 and 35 of this title by the State approving agency 

20 where the educational institution is located; and 

21 ‘‘(2) submit to the Secretary an application 

22 containing such information and assurances as the 

23 Secretary may require. 

24 ‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—(1) An educational institution 

25 that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant 

26 to— 


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1 ‘‘(A) establish or expand a child care center on 

2 the campus of the educational institution; or 

3 ‘‘(B) pay the costs of providing child care serv4 ices to students enrolled in courses of education of5 fered by the educational institution at a child care 

6 center located on the campus of the educational in7 stitution. 

8 ‘‘(2) The Secretary shall require, as a condition of 

9 a grant under this section, that the educational institution 

10 that receives the grant provides at least 75 percent of the 

11 new child care services funded by the grant to students 

12 who are veterans. 

13 ‘‘(d) LIMITATION.—The Secretary may not make 

14 more than 50 grants under this section for fiscal year 

15 2016. 

16 ‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

17 is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec18 essary to carry out this section.’’. 

19 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

20 at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 

21 at the end of the items relating to subchapter II the fol22 lowing new item: 

‘‘3699. Grants to educational institutions for provision of child care services.’’. 

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