HOMeS Act of 2019

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 715 To amend section 428 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to provide incentives to grantees under the Continuum of Care program to re-house all former members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 23, 2019 Mr. STIVERS (for himself and Mrs. BEATTY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To amend section 428 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to provide incentives to grantees under the Continuum of Care program to re-house all former members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Housing Our Military 4 Servicemembers Act of 2019’’ or the ‘‘HOMeS Act of 5 2019’’. 6 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:26 Feb 01, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H715.IH H715 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •HR 715 IH SEC. 2. INCENTIVE FOR PROVEN STRATEGIES. 1 Subsection (d) of section 428 of the McKinney-Vento 2 Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11386b(d)) is 3 amended— 4 (1) in paragraph (2)— 5 (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 6 ‘‘and former servicemembers’’ before the semi- 7 colon at the end; and 8 (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 9 ‘‘and former servicemembers’’ before the first 10 comma; and 11 (2) by adding at the end the following new 12 paragraph: 13 ‘‘(4) FORMER SERVICEMEMBER.—For purposes 14 of this subsection, the term ‘former servicemember’ 15 means a person who served in the active or inactive 16 military, naval, or air service, and who was dis- 17 charged or released therefrom.’’. 18 SEC. 3. STRATEGY TO END HOMELESS AMONG FORMER 19 SERVICEMEMBERS. 20 The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 21 shall develop a strategy to identify and eliminate homeless- 22 ness among former servicemembers who are not eligible 23 for the veterans affairs supported housing program under 24 section 8(o)(19) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 25 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(19); known as HUD–VASH) and 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:26 Feb 01, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H715.IH H715 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •HR 715 IH other housing programs of the Department of Veterans 1 Affairs. Not later than the expiration of the 12-month pe- 2 riod beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, 3 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 4 submit a report to the Committees on Financial Services 5 and Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and 6 the Committees on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 7 and Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate setting forth such 8 strategy and a schedule for implementing such strategy. 9 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:26 Feb 01, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H715.IH H715 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS