who as members of the Armed Forces served during Oper-
ation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. The 
registry shall be used to record demographic information 
on those individuals and their mental and physical health 
history, including signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. 
(b) CLAIMS
FOR COMPENSATION.—The Secretary 
shall include in the information maintained in the record 
under subsection (a) information on claims for veterans’ 
disability compensation due to ill health. 
(c) COMPATIBILITY WITH DOD REGISTRY.—The 
Secretary shall ensure that the information in the record 
under this section be collected and maintained so as to 
enable easy cross-reference with a registry for the Depart-
ment of Defense established under this Act. 
(d) NOTIFICATION OF RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS.— 
The Secretary shall notify individuals in the Registry from 
time to time on significant developments in research on 
the health consequences of military service during the op-
erations specified in subsection (a). 
SEC. 204. RESCISSION OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS MEMORANDUM. 
(a) RESCISSION
OF MEMORANDUM.—The memo-
randum of the Department of Veterans Affairs dated July 
18, 2002, from the Deputy Under Secretary for Health 
for Operations and Management with the subject ‘‘Status
of VHA Enrollment and Associated Issues’’ is hereby re-
scinded. Marketing activities of Directors of health service 
networks (known as ‘‘Veterans Integrated Service Net-
works’’) of the Department of Veterans Affairs to enroll 
new veterans within their respective networks shall be car-
ried out without regard to such memorandum. 
(b) FUNDING LIMITATION.—No funds available to 
the Department of Veterans Affairs may be used to carry 
out the memorandum referred to in subsection (a) or oth-
erwise to implement the policy contained in that memo-
randum. 
TITLE III—TRANSITION 
ASSISTANCE 
SEC. 301. DISABLED SERVICEMEMBERS SUPPORT SYSTEM. 
(a) DSSS PROGRAM.—The Secretary of each military 
department shall carry out a program to provide a support 
system for members of the Armed Forces who incur severe 
disabilities on or after September 11, 2001. The program 
shall include a system of advocacy and follow-up with per-
sonal support to assist those members as they transition 
from military service to the civilian community. 
(b) SERVICE EXECUTIVE AGENT.—The Secretary of 
each military department shall designate an executive 
agent for each of the Armed Forces under that Secretary’s 
jurisdiction to have the authority and responsibility to
carry out the program under this section throughout that 
Armed Force and, in cooperation with the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, for members of the Coast Guard with 
severe disabilities. 
(c) PERSONNEL.—The Secretary shall ensure that 
there are sufficient personnel assigned to the program so 
that the the ratio of severely disabled members or former 
members eligible for the program at any time to the num-
ber of personnel assigned to the program with specific re-
sponsibility for advocacy and follow-up for assigned mem-
bers and former members is not greater than 30:1. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated for fiscal years 2005 through 2009 such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out the programs under this 
section. 
SEC. 302. REAUTHORIZATION OF SERVICE MEMBERS OCCU-
PATIONAL CONVERSION AND TRAINING ACT. 
(a) EMPLOYMENT TRAINING ASSISTANCE.—The Sec-
retary of Defense shall carry out a program to assist eligi-
ble persons in obtaining employment through participation 
in programs of significant training for employment in sta-
ble and permanent positions. The program shall be carried 
out through payments to employers who employ and train 
eligible persons in such positions, to defray the costs of 
necessary training.
(b) AGREEMENTS WITH STATE AGENCIES.—The 
Secretary (or other implementing official) may enter into 
contracts or agreements with State approving agencies (as 
designated pursuant to section 3671 of title 38, United 
States Code) or other State agencies to carry out duties 
under the program. The Secretary (or other implementing 
official) shall require each such State approving agency 
or other State agency to submit to the Secretary (or other 
official) a monthly certification of charges submitted for 
expenses under the program. 
(c) ELIGIBLE PERSONS.—For purposes of the pro-
gram under this section, a person is an eligible person if 
the person is an eligible person under the Service Members 
Occupational Conversion and Training Act of 1992 (10 
U.S.C. 1143 note) or if the person, while a member of 
the Armed Forces on active duty, served in Operation En-
during Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
(d) INCORPORATION OF PROVISIONS OF 1992 ACT.—
In carrying out the program under this section, the Sec-
retary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, incor-
porate the provisions of the Service Members Occupational 
Conversion and Training Act of 1992 (10 U.S.C. 1143 
note).
SEC. 303. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON DOD/VA INFORMATION 
SHARING. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of De-
fense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs—
(1) should jointly identify ways to improve the 
coordination and cooperation between the two de-
partments to support the provision of veterans’ ben-
efits to members and former members of the Armed 
Forces who have been deployed as described in sec-
tion 1074f(a) of title 10, United States Code, as well 
as to other members and former members of the 
Armed Forces; and 
(2) in particular, should specifically address 
compatibility of health care filing systems, consist-
ency of claims forms, consistency of medical exami-
nations, and shared electronic databases with appro-
priate privacy protections. 
TITLE IV—HOMEOWNERSHIP 
SEC. 401. MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 230 of the National 
Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715u) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall provide assistance and 
supplemental assistance under this subsection with respect 
to mortgages of members of the Armed Forces who are