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 De-
partment of Veterans Affairs facilities. 
Sec. 7. Extension of authority for operation of the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs regional office in Manila, the Republic of the Philippines. 
Sec. 8. Extension of requirement to provide nursing home care to certain vet-
erans 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 vet-
erans. 
Sec. 11. Extension of authority for the Advisory Committee on Homeless Vet-
erans. 
Sec. 12. Extension of authority for the Veterans’ Advisory Commission on Edu-
cation. 
Sec. 13. Extension of requirements relating to vendee loans. 
Sec. 14. Extension of authority for the performance of medical disabilities ex-
aminations 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 provi-
sion, 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, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS FOR PAYMENT OF A MONTHLY ASSIST-
ANCE 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.—Sub-
section (b)(4) of such section is amended by striking ‘‘co-
operate with the United States Olympic Committee’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘its partners;’’ and inserting ‘‘co-
operate with entities with significant experience in man-
aging large-scale adaptive sports programs;’’. 
(c) APPLICABILITY TO COMMONWEALTHS AND TER-
RITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES.—Such section is fur-
ther amended by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (f) and inserting after subsection (d) the following 
new subsection (e): 
‘‘(e) APPLICABILITY TO COMMONWEALTHS AND TER-
RITORIES 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 fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(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 ADAPT-
IVE SPORTS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 
(a) REAUTHORIZATION.—Subsection (a) of section 
521A is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM.—(1) The Sec-
retary may carry out a program under which the Secretary 
may make grants to eligible entities for planning, devel-
oping, 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 para-
graph (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 effective-
ness 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 EX-
PENSES.—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 subse-
quent fiscal year, 5 percent of the total amount of 
the grant.