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, gender diverse, gender non-conforming, intersex, 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 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3930 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3930

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, gender diverse, gender non-
                    conforming, intersex, or queer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 16, 2021

Ms. DelBene (for herself, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Takano, Mr. Panetta, Ms. 
 Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Schrier, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Lynch, 
 Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Norton, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. 
Ryan, Ms. Sanchez, Miss Rice of New York, Ms. Titus, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. 
 Carson, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Meeks, 
 and Mr. Cooper) 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, gender diverse, gender non-
                    conforming, intersex, 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, GENDER DIVERSE, GENDER NON-
              CONFORMING, INTERSEX, 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 clause:
            ``(vi) veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, 
        transgender, gender diverse, gender non-conforming, intersex, 
        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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