To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide additional work-study opportunities for eligible veterans, and for other purposes.

Summary: Department of Veterans Affairs Work-Study Act of 2005 - Includes as a "work-study activity" for qualifying veterans: (1) the provision of placement services at an educational institution; (2) the provision of counseling and assistance in identifying employment and training opportunities and related information and services to members of the Armed Forces being separated from active duty (and their spouses); and (3) any approved activity in support of a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at an educational institution or military installation.

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a five-year pilot project to test the feasibility and advisability of expanding the scope of qualifying work-study activities to include work-study positions available on site at educational institutions.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Veterans Affairs Work-
Study Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL AREAS OF WORK-STUDY FOR VETERANS.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a)(4) of section 3485 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraphs:
            ``(G) The provision of placement services described in 
        section 3104(a)(5) of this title at an educational institution 
        carried out under the supervision of a Department employee.
            ``(H) The provision of counseling and assistance in 
        identifying employment and training opportunities, help in 
        obtaining such employment and training, and other related 
        information and services to members of the Armed Forces who are 
        being separated from active duty, and the spouses of such 
        members, under the Transition Assistance Program and Disabled 
        Transition Assistance Program established in section 1144 of 
        title 10, carried out under the supervision of disabled 
        veterans' outreach program specialists or local veterans' 
        employment representatives under chapter 41 of this title.
            ``(I) Any activity approved by the Secretary in support of 
        a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at an 
        educational institution or on a military installation carried 
        out under the supervision of an administrator or instructor 
        referred to in section 2111 of title 10, United States Code.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to agreements entered into under section 3485 of 
title 38, United States Code, on or after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.

SEC. 3. 5-YEAR PILOT PROGRAM FOR ON-CAMPUS WORK-STUDY POSITIONS.

    (a) Establishment of Pilot Program.--The Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall conduct a five-year pilot project to test the feasibility 
and advisability of expanding the scope of qualifying work-study 
activities under subsection (a)(4) of section 3485 of title 38, United 
States Code, to include work-study positions available on site at 
educational institutions.
    (b) Type of Work-Study Positions.--The work-study positions 
referred to in subsection (a) may include positions in academic 
departments (such as tutors or research, teaching, and lab assistants) 
and in student services (such as career centers, financial aid, campus 
orientation, cashiers, admissions, records and registration).
    (c) Requirements.--
            (1) Approval of position by the secretary.--No payment may 
        be made under the pilot project for a work-study position 
        referred to in subsection (a) unless the Secretary of Veterans 
        Affairs has approved the work-study position offered by 
        educational institution based on an application submitted to 
        the Secretary by the institution for such purpose containing 
        such information and meeting such requirements as the Secretary 
        may specify.
            (2) All other qualifying work-study activities are 
        filled.--Before a work-study position referred to in subsection 
        (a) may be filled by an applicant under the pilot project, the 
        applicant shall demonstrate to the Secretary that there is no 
        position in a qualifying work-study activity under 
        subparagraphs (A) through (I) of section 3845(a)(4) of such 
        title in which the applicant may work during the applicable 
        agreement period.
    (d) Limitation on Number of Positions.--In conducting the pilot 
program, the Secretary shall ensure that no more than 10 percent of all 
work-study agreements under section 3485 of such title at any time are 
for work-study positions provided for under the pilot project.
    (e) Maintenance of Numbers and Types of Work-Study Opportunities 
Offered by Educational Institutions.--The Secretary may not enter into 
an agreement for a work-study position referred to in subsection (a) 
unless the educational institution involved demonstrates that the 
number and types of work-study positions offered by the educational 
institution during the year preceding the year in which the Secretary 
conducts the pilot project is not less than such number and type 
offered during the pilot project.
    (f) Regulations.--The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to 
carry out the pilot project under this section, including regulations 
providing for the supervision of work-study positions referred to in 
subsection (a) by appropriate personnel.
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 
through 2010 to carry out the pilot project under this section.

SEC. 4. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

    Section 3484 of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)(E), by inserting ``or 1607'' after 
        ``chapter 1606'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``chapter 106'' and 
        inserting ``chapter 1606 or 1607''; and
            (3) in subsection (e)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``services of the kind described in 
                clauses (A) through (E) of subsection (a)(1) of this 
                section'' and inserting ``a qualifying work-study 
                activity described in subsection (a)(4)''; and
                    (B) by striking ``chapter 106'' and inserting 
                ``chapter 1606 or 1607''.