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Washington, DC: Congressman Bilirakis is proud to announce passage of the Ryan Kules Specially Adaptive Housing Improvement Act, which will improve and expand the VA's Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) Grant Program. This program currently provides grants to the nation's most severely disabled Veterans. Funds can be used to meet these Veterans' unique housing needs while assisting with buying, building, revising, and remodeling an adapted home that is barrier-free. To be eligible for this grant, Veterans typically have lost at least two limbs or are confined to a wheelchair.

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Bilirakis Champions Changes to Help Active Duty Military and Veterans

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Bilirakis Condemns Erdogan's Actions

Today, the Health Subcommittee reviewed a variety of bills designed to help prevent suicide and improve access to mental health treatment. Congressman Gus Bilirakis, a long-standing champion of mental health reform, is the co-author of three of these bipartisan measures. The Effective Suicide Screening in the Emergency Department Act helps to create protocols for identifying, assessing and treating individuals in the E.R. who may be at risk for suicide. The second Bilirakis bill, the STANDUP Act, encourages schools to expand evidence-based suicide prevention training in schools.

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Mike Levin (D-CA), Chair and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to expand and strengthen Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) services for homeless veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic.