New GI Bill of Rights for the 21st Century Act

Bill: 109-hr-2131
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chet [D-TX-17]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Afghanistan
Air force
Ambulatory care
Annuities
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Army
Authorization
Case management
Claims
Coast guard
Coinsurance
College costs
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Continuum of care
Cost of living adjustments
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Distance education
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Employee rights
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federal officials
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Government statistics
Government trust funds
Guerrilla warfare
Health
Health education
High technology
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Informed consent (Medical law)
Inspectors general
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Law
Marines
Married people
Medical centers
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Mental health services
Mental illness
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military education
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military occupation
Military operations
Military pay
Military pensions
Military personnel
Military training
National Guard
Navy
Nursing education
Officer personnel
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Pain
Performance measurement
Personnel records
Planning
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Prescription pricing
Preventive medicine
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Psychotherapy
Quality of care
Railroad retirement plans
Rape
Recruiting and enlistment
Recruiting of employees
Retired military personnel
Salaries
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
South Asia
Standards
Student loan funds
Survivors' benefits
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Taxation
Telemedicine
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment insurance
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions
Vietnam veterans
Vocational rehabilitation
Wages
War
War casualties
Web sites
Withholding tax
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
New GI Bill of Rights for the 21st Century Act - Revises, expands, or provides new rights and benefits for members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their dependents and survivors, including, among others: (1) an FY 2006 increase in funding for veterans' medical care; (2) a prohibition until the end of FY2006 on medication copayments and on the imposition of a health care system enrollment fee; (3) an extension until 2010 of Vietnam veterans' eligibility for readjustment counseling services; (4) the collection of data from pre- and post-deployment health assessments, and preventive maintenance post-deployment intervention; (5) the prevention, early detection, and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for returning troops; (6) a Department of Defense/Department of Veterans Affairs Council on Post-Deployment Mental Health; (7) survivors' and dependents' eligibility for family and bereavement counseling; (8) certain educational initiatives; (9) a National Steering Committee on PTSD Education and a PTSD public awareness program; (10) certain benefits and outreach services for disabled veterans; (11) an increase in survivors' dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC); (12) certain pay increases and bonuses for active-duty members; (13) an expansion of benefits under under both the active-duty and reserve Montgomery GI Bill programs; (14) employment assistance for homeless veterans; (15) expanded reserve member eligibility under the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense managed health care program); (16) certain recruitment and retention incentives for Selected Reserve members; and (17) certain pay matters with respect to Federal employees performing active-duty reserve service.
 
Repeals the: (1) DIC offset from Survivor Benefit Plan surviving spouse annuities; (2) pay reduction and high school graduation requirement for participation in the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program; (3) delimiting date for entitlement to basic educational assistance under such program; (4) time limitation on the exclusion of combat zone compensation by reason of hospitalization; (5) tax cut (implemented in 2001) for high-income taxpayers; (6) scheduled termination of the phaseout of personal exemptions; and (6) scheduled phaseout of the overall limitation on itemized deductions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House