Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Expands the Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program to include eligible spouses of disabled veterans and surviving spouses of service members who died during active duty, making them eligible for career services and employment assistance.
Who Benefits and How
Eligible spouses gain access to workforce services, training referrals, counseling, and related employment support that were previously reserved for veterans.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Labor and veterans-service administrators must broaden outreach, casework, and performance responsibilities to cover the newly eligible spouse populations.
Key Provisions
- Adds eligible persons alongside eligible veterans throughout the Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program statute.
- Extends outreach and intensive employment services to spouses of disabled veterans and certain surviving spouses.
- Applies the expansion to program authorization, staffing, and performance-goal provisions.
- Uses an existing employment-services framework rather than establishing a new spouse-only career program.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Expands the Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program to include eligible spouses of disabled veterans and surviving spouses of service members who died during active duty, making them eligible for career services and employment assistance.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans Affairs, Employment, Social Services
Primary Purpose
Expands the Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program to include eligible spouses of disabled veterans and surviving spouses of service members who died during active duty, making them eligible for career services and employment assistance.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Eligible spouses of disabled veterans and surviving spouses seeking employment assistance
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Program administrators responsible for serving and tracking the expanded population
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed SenateReceived in the House.
Held at the desk.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous …
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8895; …
Introduced in Senate
Passed Senate (inferred from es version)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Ms. Hassan (for herself, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Schmitt, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Spouses of deceased service members (Gold Star spouses), Spouses of disabled veterans
DVOP specialists and state employment agencies, Department of Labor
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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