Title: Montgomery GI Bill Parity Act of 2019
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Montgomery GI Bill Parity Act of 2019
This bill authorizes the use of educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve or the Ready Reserve, at the member's election, for payment of tuition under the Department of Defense program of tuition assistance for voluntary off-duty training or education.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1136 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1136

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize concurrent use of 
    Department of Defense Tuition Assistance and Montgomery GI Bill-
           Selected Reserve benefits, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2019

   Mr. Hoeven (for himself, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Cramer, and Mr. Leahy) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize concurrent use of 
    Department of Defense Tuition Assistance and Montgomery GI Bill-
           Selected Reserve benefits, 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 ``Montgomery GI Bill Parity Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. CONCURRENT USE OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TUITION ASSISTANCE AND 
              MONTGOMERY GI BILL-SELECTED RESERVE BENEFITS.

    (a) In General.--Section 16131 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(k)(1) In the case of an individual entitled to educational 
assistance under this chapter who is pursuing education or training 
described in subsection (a) or (c) of section 2007 of this title, the 
Secretary shall, at the election of the individual, pay the individual 
an educational assistance allowance to meet all or a portion of the 
charges of the educational institution for the education or training 
that are not paid by the Secretary of the military department concerned 
under such subsection.
    ``(2)(A) The amount of the educational assistance allowance payable 
to an individual under this subsection for a month shall be the amount 
of the educational assistance allowance to which the individual would 
be entitled for the month under subsection (b), (d), (e), or (f).
    ``(B) The number of months of entitlement charged under this 
chapter in the case of an individual who has been paid an educational 
assistance allowance under this subsection shall be equal to the number 
(including any fraction) determined by dividing the total amount of 
such educational assistance allowance paid the individual by the full-
time monthly institutional rate of educational assistance which such 
individual would otherwise be paid under subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or 
(D) of subsection (b)(1), subsection (d), subsection (e), or subsection 
(f), as the case may be.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 2007(d) of such title is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or chapter 1606 of 
        this title'' after ``of title 38''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, in the case of 
        educational assistance under chapter 30 of such title, and 
        section 16131(k), in the case of educational assistance under 
        chapter 1606 of this title'' before the period at the end.
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