ing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall enter into a contract to conduct a survey of 
a statistically valid sample of female veterans who are 
homeless. 
(b) SURVEY DESIGN.—The Secretaries shall design 
the survey required by subsection (a) to collect the fol-
lowing types of information about each individual sur-
veyed, where applicable: 
(1) Demographic information, including the 
age, race, marital status, level of educational attain-
ment, and military occupational specialty of the indi-
vidual while serving in the Armed Forces. 
(2) Number of years of military service, deploy-
ment, and service-connected disability (if any). 
(3) Whether the individual has any children, 
and whether any of the children require special as-
sistance. 
(4) Number of years of homelessness. 
(5) The nature and extent of the individual’s 
experience with the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, and any organization that receives any discre-
tionary appropriations, direct spending, or grants 
from either of the departments. 
(6) The employment status of the individual. 
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(7) Such other matters the Secretaries deter-
mine appropriate. 
(c) SUBMISSION OF A MODEL OF THE SURVEY.—Not 
later than 1 month before the collection of data under the 
survey begins, the Secretaries shall submit a model of the 
survey designed under subsection (b) to the Committee on 
Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives, the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, the Com-
mittee on Financial Services of the House of Representa-
tives, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate. 
(d) SURVEY COMPLETION.—The contractor shall— 
(1) conduct the survey required by subsection 
(a) by electronic means and by any other means the 
contractor determines appropriate; and 
(2) submit the results of the completed survey 
to the Secretaries not later than 6 months after en-
tering into the contract required by subsection (a). 
(e) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the con-
tractor has submitted the results of the survey required 
by this section, the Secretaries shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representa-
tives, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, 
the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
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and Urban Affairs of the Senate, a report on the results 
of the survey and any recommendations of the Secretaries 
relating to such results. The report shall also include the 
raw data of the survey results. 
(f) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF DATA.—Not later than 
1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretaries shall publish, and make available to the public, 
a report containing the data collected under subsection 
(d). 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act, the following definitions 
shall apply: 
(1) The term ‘‘veteran’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 101(2) of title 38, United 
States Code. 
(2) The term ‘‘homeless’’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 103(a) of the McKinney- 
Vento 
Homeless 
Assistance 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
11302(a)). 
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