S. 3094, Reaching Every Homeless Veteran Act of 2021

Congressional Budget Office

Cost Estimate

January 19, 2022

S. 3094, Reaching Every Homeless Veteran Act of 2021

As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on December 15, 2021

By Fiscal Year, Millions of Dollars

2022

2022-2026

2022-2031

Direct Spending (Outlays)

0

0

0

Revenues

0

0

0

Increase or Decrease (-)

0

0

0

in the Deficit

Spending Subject to

*

*

not estimated

Appropriation (Outlays)

Statutory pay-as-you-go

No

Mandate Effects

procedures apply?

Contains intergovernmental mandate?

No

Increases on-budget deficits in any

No

of the four consecutive 10-year

periods beginning in 2032?

Contains private-sector mandate?

No

* = between zero and $500,000.

The Department of Labor (DOL) awards grants to organizations that provide job training, counseling, and placement services to help homeless veterans find meaningful employment. Those grants are awarded though a competitive process open to state, local, and tribal agencies, and nonprofit and commercial entities. In the 2020 program year, DOL awarded $53 million in grants to 127 organizations in 43 states, serving about 15,000 veterans.

S. 3094 would direct DOL to consider applications from organizations in all states and conduct outreach and education activities in states from which no organizations are awarded grants. The bill also would require DOL to include additional information in the biennial report to the Congress regarding the criteria used to consider grant applications, the total number of applications submitted, the number of applications denied, and for each state within which no grant was awarded during the preceding year, the reasons why no grants were awarded.

DOL already coordinates workforce development programs in each state and disseminates information on the grant application process. Using information on similar reports, CBO estimates that satisfying the reporting requirement would cost less than $500,000 over the 2022-2031 period.

See also CBO's Cost Estimates Explained,www.cbo.gov/publication/54437;

How CBO Prepares Cost Estimates, www.cbo.gov/publication/53519; and Glossary, www.cbo.gov/publication/42904.

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S. 3094, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Paul B.A. Holland. The estimate was reviewed by Leo Lex, Deputy Director of Budget Analysis.