I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3082 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the time limitation for 
the use of entitlement to educational assistance under the Montgomery 
GI Bill for certain persons actively pursuing a qualifying educational 
degree or certificate. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 18, 2007 
Ms. CARSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the time 
limitation for the use of entitlement to educational assist-
ance under the Montgomery GI Bill for certain persons 
actively pursuing a qualifying educational degree or cer-
tificate. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Montgomery GI Bill 
Degree Extension Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF TIME LIMITATION FOR USE OF ENTI-
TLEMENT 
TO 
EDUCATIONAL 
ASSISTANCE 
UNDER MONTGOMERY GI BILL. 
(a) EXTENSION OF LIMITATION PERIOD.—Section 
3031 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub-
section (i); 
(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol-
lowing new subsection (h): 
‘‘(h)(1) In the case of an individual eligible for edu-
cational assistance under this chapter who has completed 
at least 50 percent of the credit or time requirements lead-
ing to a degree or certificate before the last day of the 
10-year period prescribed in subsection (a), the period 
during which the individual may use the individual’s enti-
tlement shall terminate on the earlier of the following 
dates: 
‘‘(A) The date on which the individual com-
pletes all of the credit or time requirements leading 
to the degree or certificate. 
‘‘(B) The date that is two years after the last 
day of the 10-year period prescribed in subsection 
(a). 
‘‘(2) An individual described in paragraph (1) who 
uses the individual’s entitlement after the last day of the 
10-year period prescribed in subsection (a) may only use 
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the individual’s entitlement for the pursuit of a course that 
leads to the degree or certificate referred to in that para-
graph.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Subsection (a) of 
such section is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘subsections (b) through (g)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsections (b) through (h)’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘subsection (h)’’ and inserting 
‘‘subsection (i)’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE
AND APPLICABILITY.—The 
amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall apply 
with respect to an individual whose entitlement to edu-
cational assistance under chapter 30 of title 38, United 
States Code, has not expired as of the date of the enact-
ment of this Act under section 3031 of such title, as in 
effect on the day before that date. 
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