109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3665
AN ACT 
To provide adaptive housing assistance to disabled veterans 
residing temporarily in housing owned by a family mem-
ber, to make certain improvements in veterans employ-
ment assistance programs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Veterans Housing and Employment Improvement Act of 
2005’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—HOUSING ASSISTANCE 
Sec. 101. Adaptive housing assistance for disabled veterans residing tempo-
rarily in housing owned by family member. 
Sec. 102. Permanent authority to make direct housing loans to Native Amer-
ican veterans. 
Sec. 103. Extension of eligibility for direct loans for Native American veterans 
to a veteran who is the spouse of a Native American. 
Sec. 104. Terminology amendments to revise references to certain veterans in 
provisions relating to eligibility for compensation or dependency 
and indemnity compensation. 
TITLE II—EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 
Sec. 201. Extension of operation of the President’s National Hire Veterans 
Committee. 
Sec. 202. Additional duty for the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’ 
Employment and Training to raise awareness of skills of vet-
erans and of the benefits of hiring veterans. 
Sec. 203. Modifications to the Advisory Committee on Veterans Employment 
and Training. 
TITLE III—HOMELESS VETERANS REINTEGRATION PROGRAM 
Sec. 301. Reauthorization of appropriations for Homeless Veterans Reintegra-
tion Program. 
TITLE IV—TECHNICAL, CLARIFYING, AND CLERICAL 
AMENDMENTS 
Sec. 401. Technical and clarifying amendments to new traumatic injury protec-
tion coverage under Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance. 
Sec. 402. Technical and clerical amendments.
TITLE I—HOUSING ASSISTANCE 
SEC. 101. ADAPTIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE FOR DISABLED 
VETERANS 
RESIDING 
TEMPORARILY 
IN 
HOUSING OWNED BY FAMILY MEMBER. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED.—Chapter 21 of title 
38, United States Code, is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 2102 the following new section: 
‘‘§ 2102A. Assistance for veterans residing tempo-
rarily in housing owned by family mem-
ber 
‘‘(a) In the case of a disabled veteran who is de-
scribed in subsection (a)(2) or (b)(2) of section 2101 of 
this title and who is residing, but does not intend to per-
manently reside, in a residence owned by a member of 
such veteran’s family, the Secretary may assist the veteran 
in acquiring such adaptations to such residence as are de-
termined by the Secretary to be reasonably necessary be-
cause of the veteran’s disability. 
‘‘(b) The assistance authorized under subsection (a) 
may not exceed—
‘‘(1) $10,000, in the case of a veteran described 
in section 2101(a)(2) of this title; or 
‘‘(2) $2,000, in the case of a veteran described 
in section 2101(b)(2) of this title.
‘‘(c) The assistance authorized by subsection (a) shall 
be limited in the case of any veteran to one residence. 
‘‘(d) Assistance under this section shall be provided 
in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may 
prescribe. 
‘‘(e) No assistance may be provided under this section 
after the end of the five-year period that begins on the 
date of the enactment of the Veterans Housing and Em-
ployment Improvement Act of 2005.’’. 
(b) LIMITATIONS ON ADAPTIVE HOUSING ASSIST-
ANCE.—Section 2102 of such title is amended—
(1) in the matter in subsection (a) preceding 
paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘shall be limited in the 
case of any veteran to one housing unit, and 
necessary land therefor, and’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘veteran but shall not ex-
ceed $50,000 in any one case—’’ and inserting 
‘‘veteran—’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(d)(1) The aggregate amount of assistance available 
to a veteran under sections 2101(a) and 2102A of this 
title shall be limited to $50,000.
‘‘(2) The aggregate amount of assistance available to 
a veteran under sections 2101(b) and 2102A of this title 
shall be limited to $10,000. 
‘‘(3) No veteran may receive more than three grants 
of assistance under this chapter.’’. 
(c) COORDINATION OF ADMINISTRATION OF BENE-
FITS.—Chapter 21 of such title is further amended by 
adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 2107. Coordination of administration of benefits 
‘‘The Secretary shall provide for the coordination of 
the administration of programs to provide specially adapt-
ed housing that are administered by the Under Secretary 
for Health and such programs that are administered by 
the Under Secretary for Benefits under this chapter, chap-
ter 17, and chapter 31 of this title.’’. 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter of such title is amend-
ed—
(1) by inserting after the item relating to sec-
tion 2102 the following new item:
‘‘2102A. Assistance for veterans residing temporarily in housing owned by fam-
ily member.’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
item:
‘‘2107. Coordination of administration of benefits.’’.
(e) GAO REPORTS.—(1) Not later than three years 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comp-
troller General shall submit to Congress an interim report 
on the implementation by the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs of section 2102A of title 38, United States Code, as 
added by subsection (a). 
(2) Not later than five years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall sub-
mit to Congress a final report on the implementation of 
such section. 
SEC. 102. PERMANENT AUTHORITY TO MAKE DIRECT HOUS-
ING LOANS TO NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS. 
(a) PERMANENT AUTHORITY.—Section 3761 of title 
38, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘establish and implement a 
pilot program under which the Secretary may’’ 
in the first sentence; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘shall establish and imple-
ment the pilot program’’ in the third sentence 
and inserting ‘‘shall make such loans’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘In carrying 
out the pilot program under this subchapter, the’’ 
and inserting ‘‘The’’; and 
(3) by striking subsection (c).