Title: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to notify the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives and certain Members of Congress before the expiration or termination of a HUD-VASH contract, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to notify the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees and each Member of Congress from the jurisdiction covered by a HUD-VASH contract at least 90 days before the contract terminates or expires.
"HUD-VASH contract" refers to a contract for low-income housing assistance, a rental voucher for VA-supported housing.
The VA shall notify such committees and members within 60 days after such notification of the VA's plan to provide assistance to veterans served under such contract.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1998 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1998

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to notify the Committees on 
 Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives and 
 certain Members of Congress before the expiration or termination of a 
               HUD-VASH contract, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2017

   Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. Takano) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to notify the Committees on 
 Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives and 
 certain Members of Congress before the expiration or termination of a 
               HUD-VASH contract, 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. NOTIFICATION OF TERMINATION OR EXPIRATION OF A HUD-VASH 
              CONTRACT.

    (a) Notification.--Not later than 90 days before the date on which 
a HUD-VASH contract terminates or expires, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall notify the relevant committees and Members of Congress of 
such termination or expiration.
    (b) Plan.--Not later than 60 days after the date of a notification 
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall notify the relevant 
committees and Members of Congress of the plan of the Secretary to 
provide assistance to veterans served under such contract.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``HUD-VASH contract'' means a contract for 
        assistance under section 8(o)(19) of the United States Housing 
        Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(19)).
            (2) The term ``Member of Congress'' has the meaning given 
        such term in section 7297(a)(7) of title 38, United States 
        Code.
            (3) The term ``relevant committees and Members of 
        Congress'' includes the following:
                    (A) The Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the 
                Senate.
                    (B) The Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House 
                of Representatives.
                    (C) Each Member of Congress from the jurisdiction 
                covered by a HUD-VASH contract for which the Secretary 
                must issue a notification under subsection (a).
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