H.R. 3640: Housing Access for Blind Veterans Act
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H.R. 3640: Housing Access for Blind Veterans Act
116th Congress · introduced 2019-07-09 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2019-07-09 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Luria, Elaine G. [D-VA-2] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Housing Access for Blind Veterans Act
Plain summary
Housing Access for Blind Veterans Act This bill expands eligibility for the Department of Veterans Affairs Specially Adapted Housing grant, which assists veterans with certain service-connected disabilities with acquiring housing with special features. Currently, a disabled veteran must have blindness in both eyes and loss (or loss of use) of one lower extremity to be eligible. The bill revises this requirement to expand eligibility to veterans who have not lost a lower extremity but are disabled due to blindness in both eyes, having central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a standard correcting lens.
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Housing Access for Blind Veterans Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Luria, Elaine G. [D-VA-2] · 1 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116hr3640.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr>
Record fed-us-cong116-hr3640 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116