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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2259 
To ensure that members of the National Guard and Reserves are able to 
fully participate in the benefits delivery at discharge program adminis-
tered jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to provide information and assistance on available benefits and 
other transition assistance to members of the Armed Forces who are 
separating from the Armed Forces. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 9, 2007 
Mr. WELCH of Vermont introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
Veterans’ Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To ensure that members of the National Guard and Reserves 
are able to fully participate in the benefits delivery at 
discharge program administered jointly by the Secretary 
of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
provide information and assistance on available benefits 
and other transition assistance to members of the Armed 
Forces who are separating from the Armed Forces. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. PARTICIPATION BY MEMBERS OF RESERVE 
COMPONENTS IN BENEFITS DELIVERY AT 
DISCHARGE PROGRAM. 
(a) PLAN TO MAXIMIZE PARTICIPATION.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall jointly submit to Congress a plan to maximize 
access to the benefits delivery at discharge program for 
members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces 
who have been called or ordered to active duty at any time 
since September 11, 2001. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The plan submitted under sub-
section (a) shall include a description of efforts to ensure 
that services under the benefits delivery at discharge pro-
gram are provided, to the maximum extent practicable— 
(1) at each military installation; 
(2) at each armory and military family support 
center of the National Guard; 
(3) at each military medical care facility at 
which members of the Armed Forces are separated 
or discharged from the Armed Forces; and 
(4) in the case of a member on the temporary 
disability retired list under section 1202 or 1205 of 
title 10, United States Code, who is being retired 
under another provision of such title or is being dis-
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charged, at a location reasonably convenient to the 
member. 
(c) BENEFITS DELIVERY AT DISCHARGE PROGRAM 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘benefits delivery at 
discharge program’’ means a program administered jointly 
by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to provide information and assistance on available 
benefits and other transition assistance to members of the 
Armed Forces who are separating from the Armed Forces, 
including assistance to obtain any disability benefits for 
such members may be eligible. 
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