H. R. 7939 
One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two 
An Act 
To make permanent certain educational assistance benefits under the laws adminis-
tered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the case of changes to courses 
of education by reason of emergency situations, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans 
Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Educational assistance benefits during emergency situations. 
Sec. 3. Extension of time limitations for use of entitlement. 
Sec. 4. Extension of payment of vocational rehabilitation subsistence allowances. 
Sec. 5. Payment of work-study allowances during emergency situations. 
Sec. 6. Payment of allowances to veterans enrolled in educational institutions 
closed for emergency situations. 
Sec. 7. Apprenticeship or on-job training requirements. 
Sec. 8. Prohibition of charge to entitlement of students unable to pursue a program 
of education due to an emergency situation. 
Sec. 9. Department of Veterans Affairs approval of certain study-abroad programs. 
Sec. 10. Eligibility for educational assistance under Department of Veterans Affairs 
Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program of certain individuals who re-
ceive sole survivorship discharges. 
Sec. 11. Uniform application for Department of Veterans Affairs approval of 
courses of education. 
Sec. 12. Notice requirements for Department of Veterans Affairs education surveys. 
Sec. 13. Exception to requirement to submit verification of enrollment of certain in-
dividuals. 
Sec. 14. Expansion of eligibility for self-employment assistance under veteran read-
iness and employment program. 
Sec. 15. Possible definitions of certain terms relating to educational assistance. 
Sec. 16. Extension of certain limits on payments of pension. 
Sec. 17. Termination of certain consumer contracts by servicemembers and depend-
ents who enter into contracts after receiving military orders for perma-
nent change of station but then receive stop movement orders due to an 
emergency situation. 
Sec. 18. Residence for tax purposes. 
Sec. 19. Portability of professional licenses of members of the uniformed services 
and their spouses. 
Sec. 20. Provision of nonarticulating trailers as adaptive equipment. 
Sec. 21. Eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs provision of additional auto-
mobile or other conveyance. 
Sec. 22. Department of Veterans Affairs treatment of certain vehicle modifications 
as medical services. 
Sec. 23. Determination of budgetary effects. 
SEC. 2. EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS DURING EMERGENCY 
SITUATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 36 of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended—
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(1) by redesignating subchapters I and II as subchapters 
II and III, respectively; and 
(2) by inserting before subchapter II, as so redesignated, 
the following new subchapter: 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER I—EMERGENCY SITUATIONS 
‘‘§ 3601. Definition of emergency situation 
‘‘In this chapter, the term ‘emergency situation’ means a situa-
tion that— 
‘‘(1) the President declares is an emergency; and 
‘‘(2) the Secretary determines is an emergency for purposes 
of the laws administered by the Secretary. 
‘‘§ 3602. Continuation of educational assistance benefits 
during emergency situations 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—(1) If the Secretary determines under sub-
section (c) that an individual is negatively affected by an emergency 
situation, the Secretary may provide educational assistance to that 
individual under the laws administered by the Secretary as if 
such negative effects did not occur. 
‘‘(2) The authority under this section is in addition to the 
other authorities of the Secretary to provide benefits in emergency 
situations, but in no case may the Secretary provide more than 
a total of four weeks of additional educational assistance by reason 
of any other such authority and this section. 
‘‘(b) HOUSING
AND ALLOWANCES.—In providing educational 
assistance to an individual pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary 
may— 
‘‘(1) continue to pay a monthly housing stipend under 
chapter 33 of this title, during a month the individual would 
have been enrolled in a program of education or training but 
for the emergency situation at the same rate such stipend 
would have been payable if the individual had not been nega-
tively affected by the emergency situation, except that the 
total number of weeks for which stipends may continue to 
be so payable may not exceed four weeks; and 
‘‘(2) continue to pay payments or subsistence allowances 
under chapters 30, 31, 32, 33, and 35 of this title and chapter 
1606 of title 10 during a month for a period of time that 
the individual would have been enrolled in a program of edu-
cation or training but for the emergency situation, except that 
the total number of weeks for which payments or allowances 
may continue to be so payable may not exceed four weeks. 
‘‘(c) DETERMINATION
OF NEGATIVE EFFECTS.—The Secretary 
shall determine that an individual was negatively affected by an 
emergency situation if— 
‘‘(1) the individual is enrolled in a covered program of 
education of an educational institution or enrolled in training 
at a training establishment and is pursuing such program 
or training using educational assistance under the laws 
administered by the Secretary; 
‘‘(2) the educational institution or training establishment 
certifies to the Secretary that such program or training is 
truncated, delayed, relocated, canceled, partially canceled, con-
verted from being on-site to being offered by distance learning,