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

Summary:
Voices for Veterans Act
This bill: (1) expands the membership of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans to include veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, and (2) extend the Commission through December 31, 2019.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2827 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2827

    To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend and expand the 
 membership of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans to include 
        veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2017

   Ms. DelBene (for herself, Mr. Walz, Ms. Esty of Connecticut, Ms. 
 Brownley of California, Mr. Peters, Miss Rice of New York, Ms. Kuster 
  of New Hampshire, Mr. Takano, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. 
 Heck, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Evans, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Rush, Ms. Meng, Mr. 
   Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. 
 Pocan, Ms. Norton, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Lowey, Ms. 
   Tsongas, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
 Moulton, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. 
Ruiz, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. 
Langevin, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Polis, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Ted 
    Lieu of California, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. 
 Hastings, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Norcross, Ms. Shea-Porter, Ms. 
Speier, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Judy Chu 
 of California, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. DeGette, 
Mr. Engel, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Moore, 
  Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Kind, Ms. Gabbard, and Mr. 
   Raskin) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend and expand the 
 membership of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans to include 
        veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.

    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 ``Voices for Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND EXPANSION OF MEMBERSHIP OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
              ON MINORITY VETERANS TO INCLUDE VETERANS WHO ARE LESBIAN, 
              GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENDER.

    (a) Expansion of Membership.--Subsection (a)(2)(A) of section 544 
of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in clause (iv), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (v), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after clause (v) the following new 
        clauses:
            ``(vi) veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or 
        transgender.''.
    (b) Extension.--Subsection (e) of such section is amended by 
striking ``December 31, 2017'' and inserting ``December 31, 2019''.
    (c) Effective Date.--Clause (vi) of section 544(a)(2)(A) of title 
38, United States Code, shall apply to appointments made on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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