Title: Veterans Armed for Success Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Veterans Armed for Success Act
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to make grants to eligible organizations to provide transition assistance to recently retired, separated, or discharged members of the Armed Forces and their spouses.
Such funds shall be used for resume assistance, interview training, job recruitment training, and related career services.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3965 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3965

   To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to 
 eligible organizations for the provision of transition assistance to 
members of the Armed Forces recently separated from active duty service 
                      and spouses of such members.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 5, 2017

 Mr. Rutherford (for himself and Mr. Lawson of Florida) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to 
 eligible organizations for the provision of transition assistance to 
members of the Armed Forces recently separated from active duty service 
                      and spouses of such members.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Armed for Success Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR PROVISION OF TRANSITION ASSISTANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE 
              ARMED FORCES RECENTLY SEPARATED FROM ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall make 
grants to eligible organizations for the provision of transition 
assistance to members of the Armed Forces who are recently retired, 
separated, or discharged from the Armed Forces and spouses of such 
members.
    (b) Use of Funds.--The recipient of a grant under this section 
shall use the grant to provide to members of the Armed Forces and 
spouses described in subsection (a) resume assistance, interview 
training, job recruitment training, and related services leading 
directly to careers, as determined by the grant recipient.
    (c) Eligible Organizations.--To be eligible for a grant under this 
section, an organization shall submit to the Secretary an application 
containing such information and assurances as the Secretary may 
require.
    (d) Amount of Grant.--A grant under this section shall be in an 
amount that does not exceed 50 percent of the amount required by the 
organization to provide the services described in subsection (b).
    (e) Termination.--The authority to provide a grant under this 
section shall terminate on the date that is five years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $5,000,000 to carry out this section.
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