US Congress House Bill 2591 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: Introduced on June 1 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-06-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish in the Treasury the Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund; (2) allow individual taxpayers to designate on their tax returns a specified portion (not less than $1) of any overpayment of tax, and to make a contribution of an additional amount, to be paid over to such Fund to provide services to homeless veterans; and (3) require the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Labor, and Housing and Urban Development, each year beginning with the President's annual budget submission for FY2017, to include a description of the use of funds from the Fund in the previous fiscal year and the proposed use of such funds for the next fiscal year.

Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund Act of 2015

Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]
Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-06-01	House	Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
2015-06-01	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-06-01	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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.
2015-06-01	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2591/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr2591/BILLS-114hr2591ih.pdf