Title: WAVES Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Wage Adjustment for Veterans Enrolled in School Act or the WAVES Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to adjust the work-study allowance under its educational assistance programs to the higher of the hourly national minimum wage, the hourly minimum wage of the state, or the hourly minimum wage of the local government where the services are to be performed.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5052 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5052

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to include local government 
   minimum wage requirements in determining the hourly minimum wage 
     applicable for purposes of the work-study allowance under the 
   educational assistance programs administered by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 12, 2019

    Mr. Lujan (for himself, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Young, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. 
   Lipinski, Ms. Norton, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Smith of 
    Washington, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Jackson Lee, and Ms. Schakowsky) 
 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 include local government 
   minimum wage requirements in determining the hourly minimum wage 
     applicable for purposes of the work-study allowance under the 
   educational assistance programs administered by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``Wage Adjustment for Veterans 
Enrolled in School Act'' or the ``WAVES Act''.

SEC. 2. AMOUNT OF WORK-STUDY ALLOWANCE UNDER DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (6) of section 3485(a) of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
            ``(6) For the purposes of this subsection and subsection 
        (e), the term `applicable hourly minimum wages' means the 
        higher of the following wages:
                    ``(A) The hourly minimum wage under section 6(a) of 
                the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
                206(a)).
                    ``(B) The hourly minimum wage under comparable law 
                of the State in which the services are to be performed.
                    ``(C) The hourly minimum wage under comparable law 
                of the local government with jurisdiction over the area 
                in which the services are to be performed.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to a payment of work-study allowance made on or 
after January 1, 2021.
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