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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. 

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 

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. 

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 ‘‘Saving Vet Halls Act 

5 of 2023’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS GRANTS FOR 

2 VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATION FACIL3 ITY AND TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 

5 may make grants to eligible veterans service organizations 

6 for the purpose of facility and technology improvements. 

7 (b) USE OF FUNDS.—A veterans service organization 

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

9 for— 

10 (1) repairing or rehabilitating a facility of the 

11 veterans service organization; or 

12 (2) acquiring or upgrading technology for such 

13 a facility. 

14 (c) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 

15 under this section, a veterans service organization shall 

16 submit to the Secretary an application that contains— 

17 (1) a plan for the repair, rehabilitation, or tech18 nology upgrading and acquisition activities the vet19 erans service organization proposes to carry out 

20 using the grant; and 

21 (2) such other information and assurances as 

22 the Secretary may require. 

23 (d) SELECTION OF RECIPIENTS.—In selecting recipi24 ents of grant under this section, the Secretary shall take 

25 into consideration— 


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1 (1) the extent of the need of a veterans service 

2 organization for a grant; 

3 (2) the quality of the plan the organization sub4 mitted under subsection (c)(1); 

5 (3) the capacity or potential capacity of the or6 ganization to successfully carry out the plan; and 

7 (4) such other factors as the Secretary deter8 mines appropriate. 

9 (e) LIMITATIONS.— 

10 (1) AMOUNT OF GRANT.—The amount of a 

11 grant under this section made to any veterans serv12 ice organization for any fiscal year may not exceed 

13 the greater of the following amounts: 

14 (A) The amount of the total cost of car15 rying out the plan of the organization sub16 mitted under subsection (c)(1). 

17 (B) $75,000. 

18 (2) FREQUENCY.—A veterans service organiza19 tion that receives a grant under this section for a 

20 fiscal year shall be ineligible for any grant under 

21 this section for any of the succeeding five fiscal 

22 years. 

23 (3) USE.—A grant under this section may not 

24 be used for the construction or acquisition of a new 

25 facility. 


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1 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

2 authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans 

3 Affairs $10,000,000 to carry out this section. Amounts 

4 appropriated pursuant to such authorization of appropria5 tion shall remain available until expended without fiscal 

6 year limitation. 

7 (g) VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATION.—In this 

8 section, the term ‘‘veterans service organization’’— 

9 (1) means an organization that is chartered 

10 under part B of subtitle II of title 36, United States 

11 Code; and 

12 (2) includes any local or area chapter, post, or 

13 other unit of such an organization. 

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