I
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 320
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits under the Mont-
gomery GI Bill by establishing an enhanced educational assistance pro-
gram, by increasing the amount of basic educational assistance, by re-
pealing the requirement for reduction in pay for participation in the
program, by authorizing the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make accel-
erated payments of basic educational assistance, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 31, 2001
Mr. EVANS (for himself, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. FILNER, Mr. SHOWS, Ms. BROWN
of Florida, Mr. REYES, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Ms. BERKLEY, Ms. CARSON of
Indiana, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, Mr.
BISHOP, Mr. BALDACCI, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BORSKI, Mr. COYNE, Mr.
CUMMINGS, Mr. FARR of California, Mr. FROST, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. BAR-
CIA, Mr. CAPUANO, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. CRAMER, Ms. DELAURO, Mr.
FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. HALL of Texas, Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi, Mr.
BROWN of Ohio, Mr. STRICKLAND, Mr. TANNER, Mr. WU, Mr. WATT of
North Carolina, Mr. WYNN, Mr. DICKS, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. GORDON,
Mr. HOLDEN, Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. KILDEE, Mr.
LIPINSKI, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. MASCARA, Mr. MENENDEZ,
Mr. MURTHA, Mr. OLVER, Mr. RUSH, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. LUCAS of Ken-
tucky, Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. OBER-
STAR, Mr. POMEROY, Mr. SANDLIN, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mrs. MEEK of Flor-
ida, Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. BRADY of
Pennsylvania, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. CLEMENT, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr.
MCGOVERN, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mr. LAMPSON, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr.
SMITH of Washington, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. TOWNS, Mr.
STENHOLM, Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island, Mrs. MINK of Hawaii, Mr.
BLAGOJEVICH, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. WEINER,
Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. MATSUI, Mrs.
CHRISTENSEN, Mr. FRANK, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. THURMAN, Ms. MCCAR-
THY of Missouri, Mr. BOSWELL, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. LATOURETTE,
Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. SNYDER, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr.
CONYERS, Mr. CONDIT, Mr. MOAKLEY, Mr. UNDERWOOD, Mr. GEP-
HARDT, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, and Mr. MALONEY of Connecticut)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits
under the Montgomery GI Bill by establishing an en-
hanced educational assistance program, by increasing the
amount of basic educational assistance, by repealing the
requirement for reduction in pay for participation in
the program, by authorizing the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs to make accelerated payments of basic edu-
cational assistance, and for other purposes.
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
Improvements Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. ENHANCED BENEFITS UNDER MONTGOMERY GI
BILL FOR FOUR YEARS OF ACTIVE-DUTY
SERVICE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 30 of title 38, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subchapter:
‘‘SUBCHAPTER 
V–ENHANCED 
EDU-
CATIONAL ASSISTANCE
‘‘§ 3041. Enhanced educational assistance entitlement
‘‘(a) ENTITLEMENT.—An eligible individual is enti-
tled to enhanced educational assistance under this sub-
chapter.
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL DEFINED.—For pur-
poses of this subchapter, the term ‘eligible individual’
means an individual who meets the service requirement
described in subsection (c) and whose status after comple-
tion of such service is described in section 3011(a)(3) of
this title. Such term does not include an individual de-
scribed in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 3011(c) of this
title.
‘‘(c) SERVICE REQUIREMENT.—(1) The service re-
quirement referred to in subsection (b) is as follows:
‘‘(A) 
After 
September 
30, 
2001, 
the
individual—
‘‘(i) first enters on active duty;
‘‘(ii) reenlists or extends an enlistment on
active duty as a member of the Armed Forces;
or
‘‘(iii) in the case of an officer, continues to
serve on active duty after that date.
‘‘(B) From the date of such entry, reenlistment,
extension, or continuation, as the case may be, the
individual—
‘‘(i) serves a continuous period of active
duty of at least four years in the Armed Forces;
or