Title: Wage Adjustment for Veterans Student Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Wage Adjustment for Veterans Student Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay the higher of the federal, state, or local government minimum wage as a work-study allowance under the educational assistance programs. Currently, the VA must pay the higher of the state or federal minimum wage.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4360 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4360

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to include local government 
   minimum wage requirements in determining the hourly minimum wage 
     applicable for purposes of the work-study allowance under the 
   educational assistance programs administered by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

 Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico (for himself, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Brown of 
  Maryland, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
 Khanna, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, 
Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Peters, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. 
Sarbanes, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Velazquez, and Mr. 
Smith of Washington) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to include local government 
   minimum wage requirements in determining the hourly minimum wage 
     applicable for purposes of the work-study allowance under the 
   educational assistance programs administered by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wage Adjustment for Veterans Student 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AMOUNT OF WORK-STUDY ALLOWANCE UNDER DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (6) of section 3485(a) of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
            ``(6) For the purposes of this subsection and subsection 
        (e), the term `applicable hourly minimum wages' means the 
        higher of the following wages:
                    ``(A) The hourly minimum wage under section 6(a) of 
                the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
                206(a)).
                    ``(B) The hourly minimum wage under comparable law 
                of the State in which the services are to be performed.
                    ``(C) The hourly minimum wage under comparable law 
                of the local government with jurisdiction over the area 
                in which the services are to be performed.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to a payment of work-study allowance made on or 
after January 1, 2019.
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