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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-169
HONORING AMERICAN VETERANS IN EXTREME NEED
ACT OF 2019
JULY 23, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. NADLER, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2938]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 2938) to exempt from the calculation of monthly income cer-
tain benefits paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the
Department of Defense, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do
pass.
CONTENTS
Page
P urpose an d Sum m ary ........................................................................................... 1
Background and Need for the Legislation ............................................................ 2
H e a rin g s ................................................................................................................... 3
C om m ittee C onsideration ....................................................................................... 4
C om m ittee V otes ...................................................................................................... 4
Com m ittee Oversight Findings ............................................................................... 4
New Budget Authority and Tax Expenditures and Congressional Budget Of-
fice C ost E stim ate ............................................................................................... 4
Duplication of Federal Program s ........................................................................... 4
Perform ance Goals and Objectives ......................................................................... 4
A dvisory on E arm ark s ............................................................................................ . 5
Section-by-Section A nalysis .................................................................................... 5
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported .................................... 5
Purpose and Summary
H.R. 2938, the Honoring American Veterans in Extreme Need
Act of 2019 or the HAVEN Act, would provide that certain vet-
erans' disability benefits should not be treated as income for pur-
poses of the Bankruptcy Code's means test. This bipartisan meas-
ure was introduced by Representative Lucy McBath (D-GA) on
May 23, 2019, together with Representative W. Gregory Steube (R-
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