Title: GI Education Benefits Fairness Act of 2019
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
GI Education Benefits Fairness Act of 2019
This bill expands eligibility for receipt of GI education benefits as a dependent under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program. Specifically, the bill includes certain unmarried persons as dependents who can receive a transferred entitlement to educational assistance.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 791 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 791

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for clarification 
 regarding the children to whom entitlement to educational assistance 
may be transferred under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2019

 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Bennet, Mr. 
    Blumenthal, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Peters, Mr. Jones, Mr. Brown, Ms. 
Stabenow, Ms. Harris, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Udall, Ms. Duckworth, and Mr. 
Wyden) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
                 to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for clarification 
 regarding the children to whom entitlement to educational assistance 
may be transferred under the Post-9/11 Educational 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 ``GI Education Benefits Fairness Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION REGARDING THE CHILDREN TO WHOM ENTITLEMENT TO 
              EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNDER THE POST-
              9/11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 3319(c) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
    ``(c) Eligible Dependents.--
            ``(1) Transfer.--An individual approved to transfer an 
        entitlement to educational assistance under this section may 
        transfer the individual's entitlement as follows:
                    ``(A) To the individual's spouse.
                    ``(B) To one or more of the individual's children.
                    ``(C) To a combination of the individuals referred 
                to in subparagraphs (A) and (B).
            ``(2) Definition of children.--For purposes of this 
        subsection, the term `children' includes dependents described 
        in section 1072(2)(I) of title 10.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to educational assistance payable under chapter 33 
of such title before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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