Title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that a member of the Armed Forces, granted a general discharge under honorable conditions on the sole basis that such member failed to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccine for COVID-19, is eligible for certain educational assistance administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill ensures that members of the Armed Forces who were granted a general discharge under honorable conditions (on the sole basis that the members failed to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccine for COVID-19) are eligible for Department of Veterans Affairs educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty and Post-9/11 GI Bill programs.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6671 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6671

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that a member of the 
Armed Forces, granted a general discharge under honorable conditions on 
   the sole basis that such member failed to obey a lawful order to 
  receive a vaccine for COVID-19, is eligible for certain educational 
     assistance administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 2022

 Mr. Fitzgerald (for himself, Mr. Bost, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, 
 Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Bergman, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Posey, Mr. Huizenga, 
and Mr. Crenshaw) 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 ensure that a member of the 
Armed Forces, granted a general discharge under honorable conditions on 
   the sole basis that such member failed to obey a lawful order to 
  receive a vaccine for COVID-19, is eligible for certain educational 
     assistance 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. CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR A MEMBER OF THE ARMED 
              FORCES GRANTED A GENERAL DISCHARGE UNDER HONORABLE 
              CONDITIONS ON THE SOLE BASIS THAT SUCH MEMBER FAILED TO 
              OBEY A LAWFUL ORDER TO RECEIVE A VACCINE FOR COVID-19.

    (a) All-Volunteer Force Educational Assistance.--Section 
3011(a)(3)(B) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``an honorable discharge;'' and inserting 
        an em dash; and
            (2) by inserting at the end the following new clauses:
                            ``(i) an honorable discharge; or
                            ``(ii) a general discharge under honorable 
                        conditions on the sole basis that the 
                        individual failed to obey a lawful order to 
                        receive a vaccine for COVID-19;''.
    (b) Post-9/11 Educational Assistance.--Section 3311(c) of such 
title is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) A general discharge under honorable conditions on the 
        sole basis that the individual failed to obey a lawful order to 
        receive a vaccine for COVID-19.''.
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