Title: SAVE Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Supporting At-risk Veterans in an Emergency Act or the SAVE Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to reallocate specified grant funds to provide food to homeless veterans during a covered public health emergency. Additionally, the bill authorizes grant recipients to use per diem payments to provide food and basic supplies for homeless veterans and formerly homeless veterans who experienced homelessness during the one-year period ending on the date of enactment of this bill.
A covered public health emergency is defined to include (1) a public health emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, or (2) an emergency with respect to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) declared by a governmental authority.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6769 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6769

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide food to veterans 
   under the grant and per diem grant programs of the Department of 
       Veterans Affairs during certain public health emergencies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2020

  Mr. Ted Lieu 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 provide food to veterans 
   under the grant and per diem grant programs of the Department of 
       Veterans Affairs during certain public health emergencies.

    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 ``Supporting At-risk Veterans in an 
Emergency Act'' or the ``SAVE Act''.

SEC. 2. GENERAL SUPPORT.

    (a) Use of Funds.--During a covered public health emergency, the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs may use amounts appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out 
sections 2011, 2012, and 2061 of title 38, United States Code, to 
provide food to homeless veterans.
    (b) Use of Per Diem Payments.--During a covered public health 
emergency, a recipient of a grant or an eligible entity under the grant 
and per diem program of the Department (in this subsection referred to 
as the ``program'') may use per diem payments under sections 2012 and 
2061 of title 38, United States Code, to provide food and basic 
supplies for--
            (1) homeless veterans in the program; and
            (2) formerly homeless veterans in the community who 
        experienced homelessness during the one-year period ending on 
        the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (c) Covered Public Health Emergency Defined.--In this section, the 
term ``covered public health emergency'' means--
            (1) a public health emergency under the Robert T. Stafford 
        Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et 
        seq.); or
            (2) an emergency with respect to COVID-19 declared by a 
        Federal, State, or local authority.
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