Title: EARNED Act of 2017
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Education Assistance to Realign New Eligibilities for Dependents Act of 2017 or the EARNED Act of 2017
This bill expands the category of individuals who may transfer Department of Veterans Affairs Post-9/11 educational assistance to a spouse or dependent child to include any service member or veteran who, at the time of approval of a benefits transfer request, has completed at least 20 years of active-duty service, including at least 90 days of post-September 10, 2001, service.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4670 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4670

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide authority for certain 
   members of the Armed Forces to transfer entitlement to Post-9/11 
              Educational Assistance to their dependents.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 18, 2017

Mr. Connolly (for himself and Mr. Katko) 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 provide authority for certain 
   members of the Armed Forces to transfer entitlement to Post-9/11 
              Educational Assistance to their dependents.

    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 ``Education Assistance to Realign New 
Eligibilities for Dependents Act of 2017'' or the ``EARNED Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES WHO HAVE 
              SERVED 20 YEARS ON ACTIVE DUTY TO TRANSFER ENTITLEMENT TO 
              POST-9/11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO THEIR DEPENDENTS.

    (a) Transfer Authorized.--Section 3319 of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following 
        new subsection (b):
    ``(b) Eligible Individuals.--An individual referred to in 
subsection (a)--
            ``(1) is any member of the uniformed services who, at the 
        time of the approval of the individual's request to transfer 
        entitlement to educational assistance 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 uniformed services; or
                    ``(B) the years of service as determined in 
                regulations pursuant to subsection (j); or
            ``(2) any member of the uniformed services, or retired 
        member of the uniformed services, who, at the time of the 
        approval of the individual's request to transfer entitlement to 
        educational assistance under this section has completed at 
        least 20 years of active duty service in the Armed Forces, 
        including at least 90 days of such service after September 10, 
        2001.''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)(1), by inserting ``described in 
        subsection (b)(1) who is'' after ``an individual''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the Post-9/11 Veterans 
Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (title V of Public Law 110-252).
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