§2061. Grant program for homeless veterans with special needs

(a) Establishment.-The Secretary shall carry out a program to make grants to health care facilities of the Department and to grant and per diem providers in order to encourage development by those facilities and providers of programs for homeless veterans with special needs.

(b) Homeless Veterans With Special Needs.-For purposes of this section, homeless veterans with special needs include homeless veterans who are-

(1) women, including women who have care of minor dependents;

(2) frail elderly;

(3) terminally ill; or

(4) chronically mentally ill.

(c) Funding.-(1) From amounts appropriated to the Department for "Medical Services" for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2011, $5,000,000 shall be available for each such fiscal year for the purposes of the program under this section.

(2) The Secretary shall ensure that funds for grants under this section are designated for the first three years of operation of the program under this section as a special purpose program for which funds are not allocated through the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation system.

(Added Pub. L. 107–95, §5(a)(1), Dec. 21, 2001, 115 Stat. 913 ; amended Pub. L. 109–461, title VII, §706, Dec. 22, 2006, 120 Stat. 3440 .)

Amendments

2006-Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 109–461 substituted "Medical Services" for "Medical Care" and "fiscal years 2007 through 2011" for "fiscal years 2003, 2004, and 2005".

Study of Outcome Effectiveness of Grant Program for Homeless Veterans With Special Needs

Pub. L. 107–95, §7, Dec. 21, 2001, 115 Stat. 919 , required the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study of the effectiveness during fiscal year 2002 through fiscal year 2004 of the grant program under this section in meeting the needs of homeless veterans with special needs and to submit to Congress a report on the study not later than Mar. 31, 2005.