Title: BATTLE for Servicemembers Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Better Access to Technical Training, Learning, and Entrepreneurship for Servicemembers Act or the BATTLE for Servicemembers Act
This bill directs the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to waive additional training under the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) under certain circumstances. The TAP provides information and training to service members and their spouses to assist them in the transition to civilian life by pursuing additional education, finding a job in the public or private sector, or starting their own business. Under the bill, service members must participate in TAP training programs unless they choose to opt out of such programs.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4954 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4954

To amend title 10, United States Code, to require members of the Armed 
 Forces to receive additional training under the Transition Assistance 
                    Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2018

 Mrs. Murphy of Florida (for herself, Mr. Bergman, Ms. Sinema, and Mr. 
 Curbelo of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require members of the Armed 
 Forces to receive additional training under the Transition Assistance 
                    Program, 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Better Access to Technical Training, 
Learning, and Entrepreneurship for Servicemembers Act'' or the ``BATTLE 
for Servicemembers Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED TRAINING; WAIVERS.

    Section 1144(f) of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``Opportunities'';
            (2) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by inserting ``and subject to paragraph (2)'' 
                after ``section'';
                    (B) by striking ``the Secretary of Defense'' and 
                all that follows through ``shall permit''; and
                    (C) by striking ``to elect to'' and inserting 
                ``shall''; and
            (3) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following 
        new paragraph:
    ``(2) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall, under regulations such Secretaries shall prescribe, 
waive the additional training under paragraph (1) for:
            ``(A) Such groups or classifications of members as the 
        Secretaries determine, after consultation with the Secretary of 
        Labor and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, for whom 
        participation is not and would not be of assistance to such 
        members based on the articulable justification of the 
        Secretaries that there is extraordinarily high reason to 
        believe the exempted members are unlikely to face major 
        readjustment, health care, employment, or other challenges 
        associated with transition to civilian life.
            ``(B) A member possessing specialized skills who, due to 
        unavoidable circumstances, is needed to support the imminent 
        deployment of a unit.
            ``(C) A member who elects in writing not to receive such 
        additional training.''.
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