Protecting Those Who Protected Us Act of 2013

Bill: 113-s-1564
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2013-09-30
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations

Cemeteries and funerals

Department of Veterans Affairs

Disability and paralysis

Disability assistance

Executive agency funding and structure

Housing for the elderly and disabled

Military personnel and dependents

Motor vehicles

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Veterans' pensions and compensation
Latest action: action_date: 2013-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-09-30
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Protecting Those Who Protected Us Act of 2013 - Appropriates for FY2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary to administer and provide benefits and services to veterans, dependents, and survivors under specified veterans' benefits laws, including those concerning:</p> <ul> <li> compensation for service-connected disability or death, </li> <li>dependency and indemnity compensation for service-connected deaths, </li> <li>pension for non-service-connected disability or death or for service, </li> <li>benefits for children of certain veterans, </li> <li>specially adapted housing for disabled veterans, </li> <li>burial benefits,</li> <li>certain educational assistance programs, </li> <li>training and rehabilitation for veterans with service-connected disabilities, and </li> <li>automobiles and adaptive equipment for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces. </li> </ul> <p> Makes appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) enactment of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available by this Act, (2) enactment of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose, or (3) January 1, 2015. </p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1564 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 30, 2013 Mr. Sanders (for himself, Ms. Hirono , Mr. Begich , Mr. Tester , and Mr. Blumenthal ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL Making continuing appropriations for veterans benefits and services in the event of a Government shutdown.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Those Who Protected Us Act of 2013 . 2. Continuing appropriations for veterans benefits and services There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2014 are not in effect, such sums as are necessary to administer and provide benefits and services to veterans, dependents, and survivors provided under chapters 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 23, 30, 31, 33, 35, and 39 of title 38, United States Code. 3. Termination Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this Act shall be available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including a continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are made available in section 2. (2) The enactment into law of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any appropriation for such purpose. (3) January 1, 2015.