Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Enhancement Act

Bill: 113-hr-3514
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2013-11-15
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family relationships

Military personnel and dependents

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Latest action: action_date: 2013-11-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-11-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Enhancement Act - Expands the authority of members of the uniformed services to transfer their entitlement to educational assistance for service in the Armed Forces commencing on or after September 11, 2001, to allow former members to transfer such benefits to family members within five years after their discharge or release from military service. </p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3514 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 15, 2013 Mr. McDermott introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the authority of veterans to transfer entitlement to Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to dependents.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Enhancement Act . 2. Expansion of authority of veterans to transfer entitlement to Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to dependents (a) Transfer authorized Subsection (b) of section 3319 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting or a former member described in paragraph (3), as the case may be, after services ; (2) in paragraph (1)— (A) by inserting with respect to a member of the uniformed services, before six years ; and (B) by striking or ; (3) in paragraph (2)— (A) by inserting with respect to a member of the uniformed services, before the years ; and (B) by striking the period and inserting ; or ; and (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) with respect to a former member who is entitled to retired pay by reason of service in the uniformed services (or would be so entitled but for the fact that the member has not attained a certain age), the years of service as determined in regulations pursuant to subsection (j). . (b) Time for Transfer Subsection (f)(1) of such section is amended to read as follows: (1) Time for Transfer (A) Members Subject to the time limitation for use of entitlement under section 3321, an individual described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (b) who is approved to transfer entitlement to educational assistance under this section may transfer such entitlement only while serving as a member of the Armed Forces when the transfer is executed. (B) Former members Subject to the time limitation for use of entitlement under section 3321, an individual described in subsection (b)(3) who is approved to transfer entitlement to educational assistance under this section may transfer such entitlement only during the five-year period beginning on the date of the last discharge or release of the individual from the uniformed services. . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this Act shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (title V of Public Law 110–252 ).