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S. 1204 · Senate bill · 119th Congress
This bill expands eligibility for the Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program to the spouses of certain veterans and members of the Armed Forces. Such program is administered by the Department of Labor and generally provides career and employment services to disabled veterans.
The bill expands eligibility for the program to spouses of
persons who died while members of the Armed Forces;
persons who died of a service-connected disability;
members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who, for more than 90 days, are listed as missing in action, captured by a hostile force, or forcibly detained or interned in the line of duty by a foreign government power;
persons who have a total permanent disability resulting from a service-connected disability; and
persons who died while an evaluated total disability was in existence.
This Act may be cited as the “Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act”.
Section 4103A of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting “and eligible persons” after “eligible veterans”; and
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting “, and eligible persons,” after “Other eligible veterans”;
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting “and eligible persons” after “veterans” each place it appears; and
(C) in paragraph (3)—
(i) by inserting “or eligible person” after “veteran” each place it appears; and
(ii) by inserting “or eligible person’s” after “veteran’s”;
(2) in subsection (d)(1)—
(A) by inserting “and eligible persons” after “eligible veterans” each place it appears; and
(B) by striking “non-veteran-related”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(e) Eligible person defined.— In this section, the term eligible person means—
(1) any spouse described in section 4101(5) of this title; or
(2) the spouse of any person who died while a member of the Armed Forces.”.