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Summary

The Secretary must give grants to help create new assistive technologies for specially adapted housing. Applicants must send an application in the form the Secretary requires. Each grant can be no more than $200,000 per fiscal year and must be awarded by April 1. Grant money must be used to develop those assistive technologies. By March 1 after a year with grants, the Secretary must report to Congress each recipient’s name, the grant amount, and the grant’s goal. Each fiscal year $1,000,000 from the Department’s readjustment benefits funds is set aside for this program. The authority runs from October 1, 2011, through December 11, 2026.

Title 38, §2108

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(a)Authority to Make Grants.—

The Secretary shall make grants to encourage the development of new assistive technologies for specially adapted housing.

(b)Application.—

A person or entity seeking a grant under this section shall submit to the Secretary an application for the grant in such form and manner as the Secretary shall specify.

(c)Grant Funds.—

(1)Each grant awarded under this section shall be in an amount of not more than $200,000 per fiscal year.

(2)For each fiscal year in which the Secretary makes a grant under this section, the Secretary shall make the grant by not later than April 1 of that year.

(d)Use of Funds.—

The recipient of a grant under this section shall use the grant to develop assistive technologies for use in specially adapted housing.

(e)Report.—

Not later than March 1 of each fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the Secretary makes a grant, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report containing information related to each grant awarded under this section during the preceding fiscal year, including—

(1)the name of the grant recipient;

(2)the amount of the grant; and

(3)the goal of the grant.

(f)Funding.—

From amounts appropriated to the Department for readjustment benefits for each fiscal year for which the Secretary is authorized to make a grant under this section, $1,000,000 shall be available for that fiscal year for the purposes of the program under this section.

(g)Duration.—

The authority to make a grant under this section shall begin on October 1, 2011, and shall terminate on December 11, 2026.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2026—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 119–103 substituted “

December 11, 2026” for “

September 30, 2026”. 2025—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 119–37 substituted “

September 30, 2026” for “

September 30, 2025”. 2024—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 118–83 substituted “

September 30, 2025” for “

September 30, 2024”. 2022—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 117–180 substituted “

September 30, 2024” for “

September 30, 2022”. 2020—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 116–159 substituted “

September 30, 2022” for “

September 30, 2020”. 2018—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 115–251 substituted “

September 30, 2020” for “

September 30, 2018”. 2017—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 115–62 substituted “

September 30, 2018” for “

September 30, 2017”. 2016—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 114–228 substituted “

September 30, 2017” for “

September 30, 2016”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2025 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 119–37 effective as if enacted on Sept. 30, 2025, see section 7406 of Pub. L. 119–37, set out as a note under section 111A of this title.

§2108 Specially Adapted Housing Assistive Technology Grant Program