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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3419 
To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to eligible 
educational institutions to provide child care services on campus. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2015 
Ms. TITUS (for herself, Mr. TAKANO, and Miss RICE of New York) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make 
grants to eligible educational institutions to provide child 
care services on campus. 
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 ‘‘Support for Student 
Veterans with Families Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS GRANTS TO 
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PROVI-
SION OF CHILD CARE SERVICES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 36 of 
title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 3699. Grants to educational institutions for provi-
sion of child care services 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make a grant 
to an eligible educational institution for the purpose of 
providing child care services on the campus of the edu-
cational institution to students enrolled in courses of edu-
cation offered by the educational institution. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.—To be 
eligible for a grant under this section, an educational insti-
tution shall— 
‘‘(1) offer a course of education that is ap-
proved as provided in this chapter and chapters 34 
and 35 of this title by the State approving agency 
where the educational institution is located; and 
‘‘(2) submit to the Secretary an application 
containing such information and assurances as the 
Secretary may require. 
‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—(1) An educational institution 
that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant 
to— 
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‘‘(A) establish or expand a child care center on 
the campus of the educational institution; or 
‘‘(B) pay the costs of providing child care serv-
ices to students enrolled in courses of education of-
fered by the educational institution at a child care 
center located on the campus of the educational in-
stitution. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall require, as a condition of 
a grant under this section, that the educational institution 
that receives the grant provides at least 75 percent of the 
new child care services funded by the grant to students 
who are veterans. 
‘‘(d) LIMITATION.—The Secretary may not make 
more than 50 grants under this section for fiscal year 
2016. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary to carry out this section.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
at the end of the items relating to subchapter II the fol-
lowing new item: 
‘‘3699. Grants to educational institutions for provision of child care services.’’. 
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