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115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6769 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the period in which 
members of the uniformed services may transfer entitlement to edu-
cational assistance under Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 
Mr. TAYLOR (for himself and Mr. PANETTA) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the period 
in which members of the uniformed services may transfer 
entitlement to educational assistance under Post-9/11 
Educational Assistance Program, 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 ‘‘GI Bill Transfer Ex-
tension Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY AND PERIOD FOR TRANSFER ENTITLE-
MENT UNDER POST-9/11 EDUCATIONAL AS-
SISTANCE PROGRAM. 
(a) ELIGIBILITY.—Subsection (b) of section 3319 of 
title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE
INDIVIDUALS.—An individual re-
ferred to in subsection (a) is any of the following: 
‘‘(1) A member of the uniformed services who, 
at the time of the approval of the individual’s re-
quest to transfer entitlement to educational assist-
ance under this section, has completed at least— 
‘‘(A) six years of service in the Armed 
Forces and enters into an agreement to serve at 
least four more years as a member of the uni-
formed services; or 
‘‘(B) the years of service as determined in 
regulations pursuant to subsection (j). 
‘‘(2) A veteran who— 
‘‘(A) while serving in the Armed Forces 
met the service conditions specified in subpara-
graph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1); and 
‘‘(B) at the time of the approval of the in-
dividual’s request to transfer entitlement to 
educational assistance under this section, has 
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been discharged or released from the Armed 
Forces for not more than 15 years.’’. 
(b) TIME FOR TRANSFER.—Subsection (f) of such 
section is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (1); 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; and 
(3) in the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘TIME FOR TRANSFER;’’. 
(c) YEARS OF SERVICE.—Subsection (j) of such sec-
tion is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(3) Such regulations may not provide for a limita-
tion on eligibility under subsection (b) based on a max-
imum number of years of service in the uniformed serv-
ices.’’. 
(d) APPLICATION DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to any individual who is discharged 
or released from the uniformed services on or after Janu-
ary 1, 2009. 
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