Title: State Veterans Homes Relief Act of 2021
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
State Veterans Homes Relief Act of 2021
This bill appropriates $500 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to fund projects on the grant program priority list for construction of state homes that are approved by the VA prior to the enactment of this bill. A state home is a home established by a state for veterans who are disabled by age, disease, or otherwise and incapable of earning a living because of such disability. The term also includes a home that furnishes nursing home care for veterans.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 330 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 330

 To appropriate amounts to the Department of Veterans Affairs to fund 
  State home construction projects that have been approved before the 
                   date of the enactment of this Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2021

  Mr. Wicker introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To appropriate amounts to the Department of Veterans Affairs to fund 
  State home construction projects that have been approved before the 
                   date of the enactment of this Act.

    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 ``State Veterans Homes Relief Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATION OF AMOUNTS TO DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FOR 
              STATE HOME RELIEF.

    (a) In General.--There is appropriated to the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, out of amounts in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, $500,000,000 to fund projects on the grant program 
priority list for construction of State homes under subchapter III of 
chapter 81 of title 38, United States Code, that are approved by the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs before the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
    (b) Supplement, Not Supplant.--The amount appropriated by 
subsection (a) shall supplement and not supplant amounts appropriated 
or otherwise made available before the date of the enactment of this 
Act for the purposes described in such subsection.
    (c) Availability of Amounts.--
            (1) In general.--The amount appropriated by subsection (a) 
        shall remain available until December 31, 2021.
            (2) Remainder to treasury.--Any amounts appropriated by 
        subsection (a) that are available after December 31, 2021, 
        shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.
    (d) State Home Defined.--In this section, the term ``State home'' 
has the meaning given that term in section 101(19) of title 38, United 
States Code.

SEC. 3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.

    (a) In General.--The amounts provided under this Act are designated 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory 
Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)).
    (b) Designation in Senate.--In the Senate, this Act is designated 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 
71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
year 2018.
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