A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for supportive services for very low-income veteran families to include former members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-5337
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2022-12-21
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-12-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill makes eligible under the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program former members of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who have retired or separated from service after serving a term of enlistment. This includes families in which the head of household or spouse of the head of household is a former member of a reserve component who has retired or separated from service after serving a term of enlistment.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 5337 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 21, 2022 Mr. Booker introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for supportive services for very low-income veteran families to include former members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

1. Expansion of supportive services for very low-income veteran families to include former members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces (a) Expansion of eligibility Section 2044 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the section heading, by striking veteran and inserting eligible ; (2) in subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (1), by striking veteran families and inserting eligible families ; (B) in paragraph (4), by striking veteran families and inserting eligible families ; and (C) in paragraph (6), by striking veteran family and inserting eligible family ; (3) in subsection (b)— (A) in paragraph (1)— (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking veteran families and inserting eligible families ; and (ii) in subparagraph (D)(vii), by striking veteran family and inserting eligible family ; (B) in paragraph (2), by striking veteran families and inserting eligible families ; and (C) in paragraph (3), by striking veteran families and inserting eligible families ; (4) in subsection (c)(2), by striking veteran families each place it appears and inserting eligible families ; (5) in subsection (d)(1), by striking veteran families and inserting eligible families ; and (6) in subsection (f)— (A) in paragraph (6)(A), by striking veteran family each place it appears and inserting eligible family ; and (B) by striking paragraph (7) and inserting the following: (7) The term eligible family includes— (A) a veteran who is a single person; (B) a family in which the head of household or the spouse of the head of household is a veteran; (C) a former member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who has retired or separated from service after having served a term of enlistment and is a single person; and (D) a family in which the head of household or spouse of the head of household is a former member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who has retired or separated from service after having served a term of enlistment. . (b) Funding Subsection (e)(1) of such section is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (I) (i) Such sums as may be available for such purposes for fiscal year 2023, of which $50,000,000 shall be available to carry out subsections (a), (b), and (c) with respect to eligible families described in subparagraphs (C) and (D) of subsection (f)(7). (ii) Any amounts made available under clause (i) to carry out subsections (a), (b), and (c) with respect to eligible families described in subparagraphs (C) and (D) of subsection (f)(7) that remain available after supportive services have been provided to such families under this section shall be available during fiscal year 2023 to carry out subsections (a), (b), and (c) with respect to eligible families described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of such subsection. . 2. Study on food and housing insecurity experienced by members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces (a) Study on food and housing insecurity Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report detailing plans to establish a study to analyze food and housing insecurity experienced by members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces. (b) Annual report Not later than one year after submitting the report required under subsection (a), and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report including the findings of the study conducted pursuant to subsection (a). (c) Reserve component defined In this section, the term reserve component has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.