Shawna Hill Post 9/11 Education Benefits Transferability Act

Bill: 115-s-410
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2017-02-16
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Veterans' pensions and compensation
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-215.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-02-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Shawna Hill Post 9/11 Education Benefits Transferability Act</strong></p> <p>This bill authorizes the reassignment a veteran's or Armed Forces member's Post-9/11 education benefits to another eligible dependent in cases where the original designated beneficiary dies without having used all of such benefits.</p> <p>Such provision shall apply to deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2009.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 410 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 16, 2017 Mr. Crapo introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the transfer of unused Post-9/11 Educational Assistance benefits to additional dependents upon the death of the originally designated dependent.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Shawna Hill Post 9/11 Education Benefits Transferability Act . 2. Additional authorized transfer of unused Post-9/11 Educational Assistance benefits to dependents upon death of originally designated dependent (a) Transfer upon death of dependent Section 3319 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (f)(1), by inserting after section 3321 the following: , and except as provided in subsection (k), ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (k) Additional transfer upon death of dependent In the case of a dependent to whom entitlement to educational assistance is transferred under this section who dies before using all of such entitlement, the individual who transferred the entitlement to the dependent may transfer any remaining entitlement to a different eligible dependent, notwithstanding whether the individual is serving as a member of the Armed Forces when such transfer is executed. . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2009.