HR-9712 : Still Just a Bill

The "VA Extenders Act of 2024" (H.R. 9712) is a bill that extends several expiring provisions related to veterans' affairs. Key provisions include:

  • Healthcare: Extends authorities for co-payments for hospital and nursing home care, nursing home care for veterans with service-connected disabilities, the Rural Access Network for Growth Enhancement (RANGE) program, complementary and integrative health programs, and the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.
  • Memorial Affairs: Extends the entitlement to memorial headstones and markers for veterans and certain individuals, as well as the authority to bury remains of certain spouses and children in national cemeteries. It also allows for the use of flat grave markers at Santa Fe National Cemetery, New Mexico.
  • Homelessness: Extends assistance for specially adapted housing for disabled veterans, the specially adapted housing assistive technology grant program, appropriations for homeless women veterans and veterans with children, treatment and rehabilitation for homeless veterans with mental illness, financial aid for supportive services for very low-income veteran families, and the grant program for homeless veterans with special needs.
  • Other Authorities: Extends authorities related to transportation to and from VA facilities, testimonial subpoena power of the VA Inspector General, maintaining a regional office in the Philippines, and the monthly assistance allowance for disabled veterans in Paralympic and Olympic sports programs.
  • Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund: Expands cost estimate requirements for congressional consideration and establishes new reporting requirements.
  • Other Provisions: Extends the reporting authority on equitable relief provided due to administrative error, modifies certain housing loan fees, extends the authority for transfer of real property, and extends requirements related to the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In addition, this bill modifies the authority for monthly assistance allowance for disabled veterans training in Paralympic and Olympic sports program by changing the name of the United States Olympic Committee to United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. The bill also expands cost estimate requirements for congressional consideration under Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund and establishes new reporting requirements.

Action Timeline

Action DateTypeTextSource
2024-09-19IntroReferralReferred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.House floor actions
2024-09-19IntroReferralReferred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.House floor actions
2024-09-19IntroReferralIntroduced in HouseLibrary of Congress

Policy Area :

Armed Forces and National Security
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