Title: Veterans Success on Campus Act of 2017
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Veterans Success on Campus Act of 2017
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) provide educational and vocational counseling services for veterans at VA-selected institutions of higher learning, and (2) select locations where the maximum number of veterans would have access to such services.
Such counseling shall be provided by VA employees who provide educational and vocational counseling services.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1391 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1391

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to provide educational and vocational counseling for 
veterans on campuses of institutions of higher learning, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2017

Mr. Banks of Indiana 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 direct the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to provide educational and vocational counseling for 
veterans on campuses of institutions of higher learning, 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 ``Veterans Success on Campus Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PROVISION OF ON-CAMPUS 
              EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL COUNSELING FOR VETERANS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 36 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 3697A the following new section:
``Sec. 3697B. On-campus educational and vocational counseling
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall provide educational and 
vocational counseling services for veterans at locations on the 
campuses of institutions of higher learning selected by the Secretary. 
Such counseling services shall be provided by employees of the 
Department who provide such services under section 3697A of this title.
    ``(b) Selection of Locations.--(1) To be selected by the Secretary 
under this section, an institution of higher learning shall provide an 
appropriate space on the campus of the institution where counseling 
services can be provided under this section.
    ``(2) In selecting locations for the provision of counseling 
services under this section, the Secretary shall seek to select 
locations where the maximum number of veterans would have access to 
such services.
    ``(c) Annual Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this section, and each year thereafter, the Secretary 
shall submit to Congress a report on the counseling services provided 
under this section. Such report shall include, for the year covered by 
the report--
            ``(1) the average ratio of counselors providing such 
        services to veterans who received such services at each 
        location where such services were provided;
            ``(2) a description of such services provided;
            ``(3) the recommendations of the Secretary for improving 
        the provision of such services; and
            ``(4) any other matters the Secretary determines 
        appropriate.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
3697A the following new item:

``3697B. On-campus educational and vocational counseling.''.
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