Title: Stop Discrimination Against Veteran Home Buyers Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Stop Discrimination Against Veteran Home Buyers Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a two-year grant program to train veterans to become VA home loan appraisers. Grants may be awarded to (1) a congressionally chartered veterans service organization; (2) a state, local, or tribal veterans service agency; (3) a nonprofit organization serving veterans housing needs; (4) a nonprofit entity with a history of community engagement; and (5) other entities the VA deems appropriate.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3752 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3752

   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a grant 
program for veterans to become appraisers for home loans under chapter 
                  37 of title 38, United States Code.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 2019

   Mr. Harder of California 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 carry out a grant 
program for veterans to become appraisers for home loans under chapter 
                  37 of title 38, United States Code.

    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 ``Stop Discrimination Against Veteran 
Home Buyers Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR APPRAISERS.

    (a) Grant Program.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall carry 
out a two-year grant program for veterans to become VA home loan 
appraisers. The grant program shall be known as the ``Veterans Serving 
Veterans Appraiser Program''.
    (b) Eligible Entities.--The Secretary may award a grant under 
subsection (a) to any of the following:
            (1) A congressionally chartered veterans service 
        organization.
            (2) A State, local, or Tribal veterans service agency.
            (3) A nonprofit organization that has historically served 
        veterans housing needs.
            (4) A nonprofit entity that the Secretary determines has a 
        demonstrated history of community engagement.
            (5) Any other entity the Secretary determines appropriate.
    (c) Amount; Frequency.--A grant awarded under subsection (a) may 
not exceed $500,000. The Secretary may not award more than one grant to 
a single eligible entity.
    (d) Use of Funds.--An entity that is awarded a grant under 
subsection (a) shall use such grant to establish and carry out training 
programs for veterans to become VA home loan appraisers.
    (e) Regulations.--The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to 
carry out this section, including with respect to the evaluation of 
applications for grants awarded under subsection (a). Such evaluation 
shall prioritize eligible entities that will use the grant on programs 
to train veterans who will become VA home loan appraisers in the county 
in which the veteran resides.
    (f) Report.--Not later than one year after the date on which the 
grant program under subsection (a) commences, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall submit to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the 
Senate and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of 
Representatives a report on--
            (1) the number of veterans participating in a training 
        program to become a VA home loan appraiser pursuant to such 
        grant program; and
            (2) the types and locations of the entities that have been 
        awarded a grant.
    (g) VA Home Loan Appraiser Defined.--In this section, the term ``VA 
home loan appraiser'' means an appraiser described in section 
3731(a)(3) of title 38, United States Code.
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