Housing Access for Blind Veterans Act

Bill: 116-hr-3640
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Luria, Elaine G. [D-VA-2]
Introduced: 2019-07-09
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis

Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Housing Access for Blind Veterans Act</b></p> <p>This bill expands eligibility for the Department of Veterans Affairs Specially Adapted Housing grant, which assists veterans with certain service-connected disabilities with acquiring housing with special features. Currently, a disabled veteran must have blindness in both eyes and loss (or loss of use) of one lower extremity to be eligible. The bill revises this requirement to expand eligibility to veterans who have not lost a lower extremity but are disabled due to blindness in both eyes, having central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a standard correcting lens.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3640 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 9, 2019 Mrs. Luria (for herself and Mr. David P. Roe of Tennessee ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assist blind veterans who have not lost use of a leg in acquiring specially adapted housing, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Housing Access for Blind Veterans Act . 2. Authority of Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assist blind veterans who have not lost use of a leg in acquiring specially adapted housing Section 2101(a)(2)(B)(ii) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking due to— and inserting due to blindness in both eyes, having central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a standard correcting lens. For the purposes of this clause, an eye with a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees shall be considered as having a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less. ; and (2) by striking subclauses (I) and (II).