A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that utilization of survivors' and dependents' educational assistance shall not be subject to the 48-month limitation on the aggregate amount of assistance utilizable under multiple veterans and related educational assistance programs.

Exempts survivors' and dependents' educational assistance from the 48-month time limit on the use of assistance under various veterans' and related educational assistance programs.

Revives any entitlement reduced by the 48-month limit.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 847 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 847

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that utilization of 
survivors' and dependents' educational assistance shall not be subject 
   to the 48-month limitation on the aggregate amount of assistance 
 utilizable under multiple veterans and related educational assistance 
                               programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 21, 2009

   Mr. Webb introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that utilization of 
survivors' and dependents' educational assistance shall not be subject 
   to the 48-month limitation on the aggregate amount of assistance 
 utilizable under multiple veterans and related educational assistance 
                               programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXEMPTION OF SURVIVORS' AND DEPENDENTS' EDUCATIONAL 
              ASSISTANCE FROM 48-MONTH LIMITATION ON AGGREGATE NUMBER 
              OF MONTHS OF ASSISTANCE UTILIZABLE UNDER MULTIPLE 
              VETERANS AND RELATED EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

    (a) Exemption.--Section 3695(a)(4) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``35,''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, and shall not operate 
to revive any entitlement to assistance under chapter 35 of title 38, 
United States Code, or the provisions of law referred to in section 
3695(a) of such title, as in effect on the day before such date, that 
was terminated by reason of the operation of section 3695(a) of such 
title, as so in effect, before such date.
    (c) Revival of Entitlement Reduced by Prior Utilization of Chapter 
35 Assistance.--In the case of an individual whose period of 
entitlement to assistance under a provision of law referred to in 
section 3695(a) of title 38, United States Code (other than chapter 35 
of such title), as in effect on the day before the date of the 
enactment of this Act, was reduced under such section 3695(a), as so in 
effect, by reason of the utilization of entitlement to assistance under 
chapter 35 of such title before the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the period of entitlement to assistance of such individual under such 
provision shall be determined without regard to any entitlement so 
utilized by the individual under chapter 35 of such title.
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