Title: Keep Student Veterans in Their Homes Act of 2017
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Keep Student Veterans in Their Homes Act of 2017
This bill authorizes  the Department of Veterans Affairs to continue to pay educational assistance and subsistence allowances to eligible veterans and eligible persons enrolled in specified courses solely for a monthly housing stipend of up to four months following a permanent school closure.
A housing or educational assistance payment shall not be counted against the aggregate period for which such assistance may be provided or charged against the individual's entitlement to educational assistance.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2698 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2698

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow veterans affected by 
 school closures to continue receiving monthly stipends under the Post-
9/11 Educational Assistance Program for a certain period, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2017

  Mr. Kildee 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 allow veterans affected by 
 school closures to continue receiving monthly stipends under the Post-
9/11 Educational Assistance Program for a certain period, 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 ``Keep Student Veterans in Their Homes 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN MONTHLY STIPENDS FOR VETERANS AFFECTED 
              BY SCHOOL CLOSURE.

    (a) In General.--Section 3680(a) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) by striking the matter after paragraph (3)(B);
            (2) in paragraph (3), by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 
        and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively;
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (3) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively;
            (4) in the matter before subparagraph (A), as redesignated, 
        in the first sentence, by striking ``Payment of'' and inserting 
        ``(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2)(A), payment of''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following new paragraph (2):
    ``(2)(A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Secretary may, pursuant 
to such regulations as the Secretary shall prescribe, continue to pay 
allowances to eligible veterans and eligible persons enrolled in 
courses set forth in paragraph (1)(A)--
            ``(i) during periods when schools are temporarily closed 
        under an established policy based on an Executive order of the 
        President or due to an emergency situation, except that the 
        total number of weeks for which allowances may continue to be 
        so payable in any 12-month period may not exceed four weeks; or
            ``(ii) solely for the purpose of awarding a monthly housing 
        stipend described in section 3313 of this title, during periods 
        following a permanent school closure, except that payment of 
        such a stipend may only be continued for four months after the 
        date of the school closure.
    ``(B) Any payment of allowances under subparagraph (A) shall not--
            ``(i) be counted against the aggregate period for which 
        section 3695 of this title limits the individual's receipt of 
        educational assistance; or
            ``(ii) be charged against any entitlement to educational 
        assistance of the individual.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Paragraph (1)(C)(ii) of such section, as 
redesignated, is amended by striking ``described in subclause (A) of 
this clause'' and inserting ``described in clause (ii)''.
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