A bill making continuing appropriations for veterans benefits and services in the event of a Government shutdown, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-s-2323
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2018-01-18
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2018-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-01-18
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill appropriates for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2018 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> Such funds shall be available until the earliest of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any such purpose, (2) enactment of the applicable regular or continuing appropriations resolution or other bill without any appropriation for such purpose, or (3) January 1, 2019. </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2323 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 18, 2018 Mr. Heller 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, and for other purposes.

1. Continuing appropriations for veterans benefits and services There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2018, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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. 2. 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 1. (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, 2019.