Title: BREAK PAY for Veterans Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Break Relief for Every Academic Kind of Period in an Academic Year for Veterans Act or the BREAK PAY for Veterans Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to continue paying educational assistance or subsistence allowances during periods between school terms in certain circumstances. Specifically, the bill authorizes the payment of educational assistance or subsistence allowances during periods between school terms where the educational institution certifies the enrollment of the eligible veteran or eligible person if (1) the period between those terms does not exceed eight weeks, and (2) the terms preceding and immediately following such a break period are not shorter in length than the period itself.
The bill also specifies that such payments of educational assistance allowances shall not (1) be charged against an individual's entitlement to educational assistance, or (2) be counted toward certain limitations that are placed on the period of assistance that is allowed under two or more programs.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2230 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2230

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs to pay educational assistance or subsistence 
   allowances to certain individuals during school term, quarter, or 
                semester breaks, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2019

 Mr. Cisneros 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 authorize the Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs to pay educational assistance or subsistence 
   allowances to certain individuals during school term, quarter, or 
                semester breaks, 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 ``Break Relief for Every Academic Kind 
of Period in an Academic Year for Veterans Act'' or the ``BREAK PAY for 
Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT OF EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE OR SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCES TO 
              CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS DURING SEMESTER BREAKS.

    Section 3680(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``; or'' and inserting 
        a semicolon;
            (2) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ``disapproval.'' 
        and inserting ``disapproval; or'';
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(C) during periods between school terms, quarters, or 
        semesters where the educational institution certifies the 
        enrollment of the eligible veteran or eligible person on an 
        individual term basis if--
                    ``(i) the period between those terms, quarters, or 
                semesters does not exceed eight weeks; and
                    ``(ii) both terms, quarters, or semesters 
                immediately preceding and immediately following the 
                period are not shorter in length than the period.''; 
                and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or 
chapter 35 of this title, any payment of an educational assistance 
allowance described in paragraph (2)(C) of this subsection shall not--
            ``(A) be charged against the entitlement of any individual 
        under this chapter; or
            ``(B) be counted toward the aggregate period for which 
        section 3695 of this title limits the receipt of assistance of 
        an individual.''.
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