House Passes Bills Package to Eliminate Homelessness, Provide Job Opportunities and Protect Home Ownership for Veterans

March 26, 2010 in Uncategorized by Editor

Washington, D.C. – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA) announced that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve seven measures this week that would improve benefits and services to veterans provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

  • H.R. 4810 – End Veteran Homelessness Act of 2010 (Filner)

This bill increases funding to successful programs for homeless veterans, requires each VA medical center that provides supporting housing services to provide housing counselors, requires housing counselors to conduct landlord research, strengthens permanent housing programs, and pays special interest to the needs of homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children.  This bill includes provisions from H.R. 2504 (Teague); H.R. 2559, as amended (Hare); H.R. 2735, as amended (Rodriguez); and H.R. 3906 (Teague).

  • H.R. 1879 – National Guard Employment Protection Act of 2009 (Coffman)
  • H.J.Res. 80 – Honoring the Blinded Veterans Association on its 65th anniversary (Halvorson)
  • H.R. 3976 – Helping Heroes Keep Their Homes Act of 2009 (Perriello)
  • H.R. 4667 – Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2010 (Perriello)
  • H.R. 4592 – Energy Jobs for Veterans Act (Teague)
  • H.R. 4360 – Major Charles R. Soltes, Jr., O.D. Department of Veterans Affairs Blind Rehabilitation Center (Campbell)

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