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Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act
To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain spouses eligible for services under the disabled veterans' outreach program, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill expands the disabled veterans' outreach program to include certain surviving spouses. Specifically, it makes eligible the surviving spouses of veterans and the spouses of military members who died while in service. The bill amends federal law to allow these spouses to receive career services and employment assistance through the disabled veterans' outreach program. The expansion applies to both surviving spouses of deceased veterans and spouses of service members who died on active duty.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] (R-NE)
1 cosponsor
- Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (D-CO)
Actions (4)
- Jun 11, 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held · house
- May 12, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity. · house
- Apr 28, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
- Apr 28, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 28, 2025
Mr. Bacon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain spouses eligible for services under the disabled veterans’ outreach program, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act”.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF SPOUSES FOR SERVICES UNDER THE DISABLED VETERANS’ OUTREACH PROGRAM.
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.”. <all>
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