I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 293 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Labor 
to carry out a grant program to provide reintegration services through 
programs and facilities that emphasize services for homeless women vet-
erans and homeless veterans with children. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 8, 2009 
Mr. BUYER (for himself, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. 
BUCHANAN, Mr. STEARNS, and Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Vet-
erans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Sec-
retary of Labor to carry out a grant program to provide 
reintegration services through programs and facilities 
that emphasize services for homeless women veterans 
and homeless veterans with children. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Homeless Women Vet-
erans and Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration 
Grant Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. HOMELESS WOMEN VETERANS AND HOMELESS 
VETERANS WITH CHILDREN REINTEGRATION 
GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) GRANT PROGRAM.—Chapter 20 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
2021 the following new section: 
‘‘§ 2021A. Homeless women veterans and homeless 
veterans 
with 
children 
reintegration 
grant program 
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—Subject to the availability of appro-
priations provided for such purpose, the Secretary of 
Labor shall make grants to program and facilities that 
the Secretary determines provide dedicated services for 
homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with chil-
dren. 
‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants under this section 
shall be used to provide job training, counseling, place-
ment services (including job readiness and literacy and 
skills training) and child care services to expedite the re-
integration of homeless women veterans and homeless vet-
erans with children into the labor force. 
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENT TO MONITOR EXPENDITURES OF 
FUNDS.—(1) The Secretary of Labor shall collect such in-
formation as that Secretary considers appropriate to mon-
itor and evaluate the distribution and expenditure of funds 
appropriated to carry out this section. The information 
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shall include data with respect to the results or outcomes 
of the services provided to each homeless veteran under 
this section. 
‘‘(2) Information under paragraph (1) shall be fur-
nished in such form and manner as the Secretary of Labor 
may specify. 
‘‘(d) ADMINISTRATION THROUGH
THE ASSISTANT 
SECRETARY OF LABOR FOR VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT 
AND TRAINING.—The Secretary of Labor shall carry out 
this section through the Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Veterans’ Employment and Training. 
‘‘(e) BIENNIAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Sec-
retary of Labor shall include as part of the report required 
under section 2021(d) of this title an evaluation of the 
grant program under this section, which shall include an 
evaluation of services furnished to veterans under this sec-
tion and an analysis of the information collected under 
subsection (c). 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—(1) 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
section $10,000,000 for each fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) Funds appropriated to carry out this section 
shall remain available until expended. Funds obligated in 
any fiscal year to carry out this section may be expended 
in that fiscal year and the succeeding fiscal year.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 2120 the following new 
item: 
‘‘2021A. Homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children re-
integration grant program.’’. 
Æ 
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