VA gets new tools to help homeless veterans access benefits
H.R. 3014 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to entities that furnish services to homeless veterans. · Filed by Delia Ramirez (D-IL) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 24, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill expands the Veterans Affairs Secretary's authority to award grants to organizations serving homeless veterans. It adds two new categories of eligible services: helping veterans access VA benefits they qualify for, and helping them obtain and coordinate other federal, state, local, or nonprofit benefits. It also clarifies that grant-funded facility improvements can include converting temporary units to permanent housing.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to broaden the types of services VA can fund for homeless-veteran assistance organizations, specifically adding benefit-coordination and permanent housing conversion as eligible grant purposes.
What the text implies
- Permanent housing conversion language may incentivize grantees to prioritize transitional-to-permanent conversion over new construction, potentially affecting the mix of housing stock available.
- Benefit-coordination authority could reduce duplicative case-management work across VA and other agencies, but depends on grantee capacity and coordination infrastructure.
- No appropriations language in the bill itself; expansion of grant authority does not guarantee funding increases—actual impact depends on congressional appropriations decisions.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Homeless veterans gain expanded access to benefit-coordination services and permanent housing conversion, removing barriers to VA and other assistance they are already entitled to. The bill does not restrict any existing rights or protections; it only widens the scope of services VA can fund.
Who stands to gain
- nonprofit organizations serving homeless veterans
- consumer cooperatives providing veteran services
Named in the bill
Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 38 USC § 2011, 38 USC § 2044, homeless veterans, nonprofit organizations, consumer cooperatives
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Democrats.
- Apr 24, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 24, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 3 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $330,451 in lobbying spend. A filing names 169 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Delia Ramirez, the sponsor, reported $383,900 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Disabled American Veterans — $310,451 on 2 filings
- The Diatribe Foundation — $20,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 21, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (757 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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