Title: HOMeS Act of 2017
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Housing Our Military Servicemembers Act of 2017 or the HOMeS Act of 2017
This bill amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide incentives to geographic areas under the Continuum of Care program for using funds for activities proven to be effective at reducing homelessness for former servicemembers of the Armed Forces.
HUD shall develop a strategy to identify and eliminate homelessness among former servicemembers who are not eligible for the veterans affairs supported housing (HUD-VASH) program under the United States Housing Act of 1937 and other programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2222 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2222

 To amend section 428 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to 
 provide incentives to grantees under the Continuum of Care program to 
    re-house all former members of the Armed Forces, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2017

  Mr. Stivers (for himself and Mrs. Beatty) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 428 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to 
 provide incentives to grantees under the Continuum of Care program to 
    re-house all former members of the Armed Forces, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Housing Our Military Servicemembers 
Act of 2017'' or the ``HOMeS Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. INCENTIVE FOR PROVEN STRATEGIES.

    Subsection (d) of section 428 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11386b(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and former 
                servicemembers'' before the semicolon at the end; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``and former 
                servicemembers'' before the first comma; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Former servicemember.--For purposes of this 
        subsection, the term `former servicemember' means a person who 
        served in the active or inactive military, naval, or air 
        service, and who was discharged or released therefrom.''.

SEC. 3. STRATEGY TO END HOMELESS AMONG FORMER SERVICEMEMBERS.

    The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall develop a 
strategy to identify and eliminate homelessness among former 
servicemembers who are not eligible for the veterans affairs supported 
housing program under section 8(o)(19) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(19); known as HUD-VASH) and other housing 
programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Not later than the 
expiration of the 12-month period beginning on the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall submit a report to the Committees on Financial Services and 
Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committees on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and Veterans' Affairs of the Senate 
setting forth such strategy and a schedule for implementing such 
strategy.
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