1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Veterans Services Support Act”.
Veterans Services Support Act
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans service organizations with the same access to Department of Veterans Affairs facilities during the Government shutdown as such organizations had immediately prior to the shutdown, and for other purposes.
2. Access of veterans service organizations to allocated space in Department of Veterans Affairs facilities during the Government shutdown
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during any period after September 30, 2013, for which interim or full-year appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2014 have not been enacted, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall ensure that employees of the Department who are excepted from furlough during any such period provide—
veterans service organizations with the same access to Department of Veterans Affairs facilities as such organizations had on September 30, 2013;
veterans with the same access to veterans service organizations using such facilities as was provided on September 30, 2013; and
such services as may be necessary to ensure the safety and security of such veterans and veterans service organizations in the same manner as was provided on September 30, 2013.