day’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘thirtieth birth-
day’’. 
(c) AMOUNT OF EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 3532 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 3532. AMOUNT OF EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE. 
‘‘(a) The aggregate amount of educational assistance 
to which an eligible person is entitled under this chapter 
is $80,000, as increased from time to time under section 
3564 of this title. 
‘‘(b) Within the aggregate amount provided for in 
subsection (a), educational assistance under this chapter 
may be paid for any purpose, and in any amount, as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(1) A program of education consisting of insti-
tutional courses. 
‘‘(2) A full-time program of education that con-
sists of institutional courses and alternate phases of 
training in a business or industrial establishment 
with the training in the business or industrial estab-
lishment being strictly supplemental to the institu-
tional portion. 
‘‘(3) A farm cooperative program consisting of 
institutional agricultural courses prescheduled to fall 
within forty-four weeks of any period of twelve con-
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secutive months that is pursued by an eligible person 
who is concurrently engaged in agricultural employ-
ment which is relevant to such institutional agricul-
tural courses as determined under standards pre-
scribed by the Secretary. 
‘‘(4) A course or courses or other program of 
special educational assistance as provided in section 
3491(a) of this title. 
‘‘(5) A program of apprenticeship or other on- 
job training pursued in a State as provided in sec-
tion 3687(a) of this title. 
‘‘(6) In the case of an eligible spouse or sur-
viving spouse, a program of education exclusively by 
correspondence as provided in section 3686 of this 
title. 
‘‘(7) A special training allowance for special re-
storative training as provided in section 3542 of this 
title. 
‘‘(c) If a program of education is pursued by an eligi-
ble person at an institution located in the Republic of the 
Philippines, any educational assistance for such person 
under this chapter shall be paid at the rate of $0.50 for 
each dollar. 
‘‘(d)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of edu-
cational assistance payable under this chapter for a licens-
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ing or certification test described in section 3501(a)(5) of 
this title is the lesser of $2,000 or the fee charged for 
the test. 
‘‘(2) In no event shall payment of educational assist-
ance under this subsection for such a test exceed the 
amount of the individual’s available entitlement under this 
chapter.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(A) Section 
3533 of such title is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 3533. TUTORIAL ASSISTANCE. 
‘‘An eligible person shall, without any charge to any 
entitlement of such person to educational assistance under 
section 3532(a) of this title, be entitled to the benefits pro-
vided an eligible veteran under section 3492 of this title.’’. 
(B) Section 3534 of such title is repealed. 
(C) Section 3542 of such title is amended— 
(i) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘com-
puted at the basic rate’’ and all that follows 
through the end of the subsection and inserting 
a period; and 
(ii) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘an edu-
cational assistance allowance’’ and inserting 
‘‘educational assistance’’. 
(D) Section 3543(c) of such title is amended— 
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(i) in paragraph (1), by adding ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(ii) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(iii) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 
paragraph (2). 
(E) Section 3564 of such title is amended by 
striking ‘‘rates payable under sections 3532, 
3534(b), and 3542(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘aggregate 
amount of educational assistance payable under sec-
tion 3532’’. 
(F) Paragraph (1) of section 3565(b) of such 
title is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) educational assistance payable under sec-
tion 3532 of this title, including the special training 
allowance referred to in subsection (b)(7) of such 
section, shall be paid at the rate of $0.50 for each 
dollar; and’’. 
(G) Section 3687 of such title is amended— 
(i) in subsection (a)— 
(I) in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1), by striking ‘‘or an eligible person (as 
defined in section 3501(a) of this title)’’; 
and 
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(II) in the flush matter following 
paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘chapters 34 
and 35’’ and inserting ‘‘chapter 34’’; 
(ii) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘chapters 
34 and 35’’ and inserting ‘‘chapter 34’’; and 
(iii) in subsection (e), by striking para-
graph (3) and inserting the following new para-
graph (3): 
‘‘(3) In this subsection, the term ‘individual’ 
means an eligible veteran who is entitled to monthly 
educational assistance allowances payable under sec-
tion 3015(e) of this title.’’. 
(d) OTHER CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) Sec-
tion 3524 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ‘‘allowance’’ each place it appears. 
(2)(A) Section 3531 of such title is amended— 
(i) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘an edu-
cational assistance allowance’’ and inserting ‘‘edu-
cational assistance’’; and 
(ii) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘allowance’’. 
(B) The heading of such section is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘allowance’’. 
(3) Section 3537(a) of such title is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘additional’’. 
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(e) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 35 of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking the item relating to section 3511 
and inserting the following new item: 
‘‘3511. Treatment of certain interruptions in pursuit of programs of edu-
cation.’’; 
(2) by striking the items relating to sections 
3531, 3532, and 3533 and inserting the following 
new items: 
‘‘3531. Educational assistance. 
‘‘3532. Amount of educational assistance. 
‘‘3533. Tutorial assistance.’’; 
(3) by striking the item relating to section 
3534; and 
(4) by striking the item relating to section 3541 
and inserting the following new item: 
‘‘3541. Special restorative training.’’. 
(f) EFFECTIVE DATES.—(1) The amendments made 
by this section shall take effect on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
(2) Notwithstanding the effective date under para-
graph (1) of the amendment to section 3564 of title 38, 
United States Code, made by subsection (c)(2)(E), the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall make the first increase 
in the aggregate amount of educational assistance under 
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section 3532 of such title as required by such section 3564 
(as so amended) for fiscal year 2006. 
Æ 
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