Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Enhancement Act

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.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3514 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3514

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the authority of 
veterans to transfer entitlement to Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to 
                              dependents.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2013

Mr. McDermott 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 expand the authority of 
veterans to transfer entitlement to Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to 
                              dependents.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Post-9/11 Educational Assistance 
Enhancement Act''.

SEC. 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).
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