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

Summary:
Voices for Veterans Act
This bill expands the membership of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans to include veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. Among other responsibilities, the committee advises the Department of Veterans Affairs on the administration of benefits and provision of health care, benefits, and services to minority veterans.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7420 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7420

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 2020

  Ms. DelBene (for herself, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. 
 Lynch, Ms. Norton, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Cox of California, 
  Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Cisneros, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Cooper, Mr. 
Kennedy, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Moore, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Judy Chu 
 of California, Mr. Yarmuth, Mrs. Davis of California, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. 
 Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Panetta, 
Mr. Beyer, Ms. Speier, Mr. Engel, Mrs. Lowey, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Carson 
of Indiana, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Himes, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Miss Rice of 
 New York, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Heck, Ms. 
  Jayapal, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Ryan, Ms. Wexton, Ms. Schrier, Ms. 
   Porter, and Mr. Quigley) 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 expand the membership of the 
  Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans to include veterans who are 
             lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.

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

    (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, 
        transgender, or queer''.
    (b) 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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