Title: Veterans Eligible to Transfer School (VETS) Credit Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Veterans Eligible to Transfer School (VETS) Credit Act
This bill addresses eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) educational assistance for individuals who are transferring credits due to the closure or disapproval of a program of education.
Currently, an individual who transfers fewer than 12 credits from a program of education that is closed or disapproved must be deemed to have not received such credits, and the period for which the entitlement is not charged must be the entire period of the individual's enrollment in the program.
Under the bill, the VA must require an individual to certify in writing the transfer of fewer than 12 credits from a program of education that is closed or disapproved. The VA must accept such a certification as proof that the individual is transferring fewer than 12 credits.
The VA must provide a certificate of eligibility (to demonstrate proof of full educational assistance entitlement) to individuals who make the certification and acknowledge that if 12 or more credits are transferred (1) they may not be deemed to be someone who did not receive such credits, and (2) the VA must rescind the certificate of eligibility in such cases.
The VA must notify individuals who are eligible to make such a certification and receive a certificate of eligibility.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6604 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6604

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the method by which 
 the Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines the effects of a closure 
or disapproval of an educational institution on individuals who do not 
                transfer credits from such institution.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2022

 Mr. Buchanan 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 improve the method by which 
 the Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines the effects of a closure 
or disapproval of an educational institution on individuals who do not 
                transfer credits from such institution.

    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 ``Veterans Eligible to Transfer School 
(VETS) Credit Act''.

SEC. 2. CHARGE TO ENTITLEMENT TO EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS 
              WHO DO NOT TRANSFER CREDITS FROM CERTAIN CLOSED OR 
              DISAPPROVED PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION.

    Section 3699(c)(2)(A) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``An individual'' and inserting ``(i) An 
        individual'';
            (2) by designating the second sentence as clause (iv) and 
        indenting appropriately; and
            (3) by inserting after clause (i), as designated by 
        paragraph (1), the following new clauses:
    ``(ii) In carrying out clause (i), the Secretary shall--
            ``(I) require an individual to certify in writing that the 
        individual has transferred fewer than 12 credits as described 
        in such clause;
            ``(II) require an individual who makes a certification 
        under subclause (I) to acknowledge in writing that if the 
        individual transfers 12 or more credits as described in such 
        clause (i)--
                    ``(aa) the individual may not be deemed under such 
                clause to be an individual who did not receive such 
                credits; and
                    ``(bb) the Secretary shall rescind the certificate 
                of eligibility provided under subclause (IV);
            ``(III) accept a certification under subclause (I) as proof 
        of the individual transferring fewer than 12 credits; and
            ``(IV) provide to the individual who makes a certification 
        under subclause (I) and makes the acknowledgment under 
        subclause (II) a certificate of eligibility that the individual 
        may provide to an educational institution as proof of the 
        individual being covered by this paragraph.
    ``(iii) The Secretary shall notify individuals described in 
subparagraph (B) of being eligible to be covered by this paragraph.''.
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