Veteran Eligibility for Necessities To Undertake Rewarding Entrepreneurship Act or the VENTURE Act
This bill expands eligibility for self-employment assistance under the Veteran Readiness and Employment Program to include certain veterans who have a service-connected disability or employment handicap in addition to those with the most severe service-connected disabilities.
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the eligibility of 
 veterans who may receive self-employment assistance under the Veteran 
Readiness and Employment program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``Veteran Eligibility for Necessities 
To Undertake Rewarding Entrepreneurship Act'' or the ``VENTURE Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR SELF-EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE UNDER 
              VETERAN READINESS AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM.

    (a) Expansion of Eligibility.--Paragraph (12) of subsection (a) of 
section 3104 of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``(12) Such license fees and essential equipment, supplies, 
        and minimum stocks of materials as the Secretary determines to 
        be necessary for a veteran to begin self-employment and are 
        within the criteria and cost limitations that the Secretary 
        shall prescribe in regulations for the furnishing of such fees, 
        equipment, supplies, and stocks.''.
    (b) Priority.--Subsection (c)(1) of such section is amended by 
inserting before the first period the following: ``, including with 
respect to providing priority for services under subsection (a)(12) to 
veterans with the most severe service-connected disabilities who 
require homebound training or self-employment, or both homebound 
training and self-employment''.
    (c) Technical Amendments.--Section 3117 of such title is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2)(C), by striking ``this clause'' 
        and inserting ``this subparagraph''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``insure'' and 
                inserting ``ensure''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``clause'' both 
                places it appears and inserting ``paragraph''.
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VENTURE Act
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the eligibility of veterans who may receive self-employment assistance under the Veteran Readiness and Employment program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
VENTURE Act
Veteran Eligibility for Necessities To Undertake Rewarding Entrepreneurship Act
Rep. Levin, Mike