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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 2769 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the use of entitlement 

under Post-9/11 Educational Assistance for the pursuit of apprenticeships and on-job training, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 10, 2009 

Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. JOHANNS, and Mrs. MURRAY) introduced 

the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 

on Veterans’ Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the 

use of entitlement under Post-9/11 Educational Assistance for the pursuit of apprenticeships and on-job training, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Post-9/11 Veterans’ 

5 Job Training Act of 2009’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. USE OF ENTITLEMENT UNDER POST-9/11 EDU2 CATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR APPRENTICE3 SHIPS AND ON-JOB TRAINING. 

4 (a) ENTITLEMENT.— 

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 33 

6 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by in7 serting after section 3319 the following new section: 

8 ‘‘§ 3319A. Apprenticeships and on-job training 

9 ‘‘(a) MONTHLY BENEFIT.—Except as provided in 

10 subsections (b) and (c), the amount of the monthly benefit 

11 payment to an individual pursuing a full-time program of 

12 apprenticeship or other on-job training under this chapter 

13 is— 

14 ‘‘(1) for each of the first six months of the indi15 vidual’s pursuit of such program, 75 percent of the 

16 monthly benefit payment otherwise payable to such 

17 individual under this chapter; 

18 ‘‘(2) for each of the second six months of the 

19 individual’s pursuit of such program, 55 percent of 

20 such monthly benefit payment; and 

21 ‘‘(3) for each of the months following the first 

22 12 months of the individual’s pursuit of such pro23 gram, 35 percent of such monthly benefit payment. 

24 ‘‘(b) REDUCTION.—In any month in which an indi25 vidual pursuing a program of education consisting of a 

26 program of apprenticeship or other on-job training fails 


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1 to complete 120 hours of training, the amount of the 

2 monthly benefit payment payable under this chapter to the 

3 individual shall be limited to the same proportion of the 

4 applicable rate determined under subsection (a) as the 

5 number of hours worked during such month, rounded to 

6 the nearest eight hours, bears to 120 hours. 

7 ‘‘(c) HOUSING ALLOWANCE.—An individual receiving 

8 a monthly benefit pursuant to this section shall receive 

9 a monthly housing stipend amount equal to the monthly 

10 amount of the basic allowance for housing payable under 

11 section 403 of title 37 for a member with dependents in 

12 pay grade E–5 residing in the military housing area that 

13 encompasses all or the majority portion of the ZIP code 

14 area in which the individual resides. 

15 ‘‘(d) CHARGE TO ENTITLEMENT.—For each month 

16 that an individual is paid a monthly benefit payment 

17 under this chapter, the individual’s entitlement under this 

18 chapter shall be charged at the rate of— 

19 ‘‘(1) 75 percent of a month in the case of pay20 ments made in accordance with subsection (a)(1); 

21 ‘‘(2) 55 percent of a month in the case of pay22 ments made in accordance with subsection (a)(2); 

23 and 

24 ‘‘(3) 35 percent of a month in the case of pay25 ments made in accordance with subsection (a)(3). 


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1 ‘‘(e) REDUCED CHARGE TO ENTITLEMENT.—For 

2 any month in which an individual fails to complete 120 

3 hours of training, the entitlement otherwise chargeable 

4 under subsection (d) shall be reduced in the same propor5 tion as the monthly benefit payment payable is reduced 

6 under subsection (b).’’. 

7 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec8 tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended 

9 by inserting after the item relating to section 3319 

10 the following new item: 

‘‘3319A. Apprenticeships and on-job training.’’. 

11 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 3313 of 

12 such title is amended— 

13 (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘or section 

14 3319A of this title’’ after ‘‘subsections (e) and (f)’’; 

15 and 

16 (2) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol17 lows: 

18 ‘‘(b) APPROVED PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION.—A pro19 gram of education is an approved program of education 

20 for purposes of this chapter if the program of education— 

21 ‘‘(1) is— 

22 ‘‘(A) offered by an institution of higher 

23 learning (as that term is defined in section 

24 3452(f) of this title); and 


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1 ‘‘(B) approved for purposes of chapter 30 

2 of this title (including approval by the State ap3 proving agency concerned); or 

4 ‘‘(2) in the case of an individual who is not 

5 serving on active duty, includes a program of ap6 prenticeship or of other on-job training approved as 

7 provided in paragraph (1) or (2), as appropriate, of 

8 section 3687(a) of this title.’’. 

9 (c) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section 3002(3)(C) 

10 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘clause’’ and inserting 

11 ‘‘paragraph’’. 

12 (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

13 this section shall take effect as if included in the enact14 ment of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance 

15 Act of 2008 (title V of Public Law 110–252). 

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