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H.R. 3008: Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act

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H.R. 3008: Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act

110th Congress · introduced 2007-07-11 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2007-07-11 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Subcommittee Hearings Held. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act

Plain summary

Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program to make competitive grants to provide financial assistance to state departments of veterans affairs for the training of rural county veteran service officers in order to improve outreach and assistance to veterans, as well as their spouses, children, and parents, who may be eligible to receive veterans' or veterans-related benefits and who are residing in rural counties. Limits each grant to $1 million. Requires grants to be made on an annual basis.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1] · 31 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), André Carson (D-IN)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong110-hr3008 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110