Cosponsor
Sign in

HR 1413 · in committee · significant

To amend title 38, United States Code, to require that domiciliary facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs and State homes that provide housing to veterans have resident advocates.

What this bill does

  • The bill requires VA domiciliary facilities and state veteran homes to hire resident advocates.
  • Veteran residents in these facilities are affected, as advocates will handle their complaints and concerns.
  • State homes must hire advocates to remain eligible for VA payment; no specific federal cost is mentioned.

Generated by claude-haiku-4-5

Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

  1. 01

    How should the cost of hiring resident advocates be distributed between the federal VA budget and individual states?

  2. 02

    What specific protections or complaint processes do veteran residents currently lack that this bill would address?

  3. 03

    If states cannot afford to hire advocates, what should happen to their eligibility for VA funding and veteran residents?

Cosponsor writes these to seed civic discussion — they aren't user posts. Sign in to reply.

Sponsor · D-NJ-5

Josh Gottheimer

Citizen cosponsors

0

In Congress

0/ 435

House Reps cosponsoring

Introduced 2025-03-21

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-03-21 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

  2. 2025-02-18 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  3. 2025-02-18 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  4. 2025-02-18 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

Congress.gov ↗

Citizen comments

Sign in to comment on this bill.

No comments yet — be the first.