VET TEC Expansion Act

Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses Expansion Act or the VET TEC Expansion Act

This bill updates the Department of Veterans Affairs High Technology Pilot Program by expanding eligibility to certain veterans and expanding the types of providers who are qualified under the program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5766 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5766

 To amend the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 
 2017 to expand eligibility for high technology programs of education 
   and the class of providers who may enter into contracts with the 
 Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide such programs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 5, 2020

  Mr. McCarthy (for himself and Mr. Khanna) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 
 2017 to expand eligibility for high technology programs of education 
   and the class of providers who may enter into contracts with the 
 Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide such programs, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Veteran Employment Through 
Technology Education Courses Expansion Act'' or the ``VET TEC Expansion 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBLE CLASS OF PROVIDERS OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY 
              PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION FOR VETERANS.

    Section 116 of the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance 
Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-48; 38 U.S.C. 3001 (note)) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end ``The Secretary 
        shall treat an individual as an eligible veteran if the 
        Secretary determines that the individual shall become an 
        eligible veteran fewer than 180 days after the date of such 
        determination.'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(3)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (A); and
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;
            (3) in subsection (d), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by inserting ``(not including an individual described in 
        the second sentence of subsection (b))'' after ``each eligible 
        veteran'';
            (4) in subsection (e), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by inserting ``, including a part-time program shorter 
        than six months in duration,'' after ``means a program of 
        education''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following new subsection (i):
    ``(i) Prohibition on Certain Accounting of Assistance.--The 
Secretary may not consider enrollment in a high technology program of 
education under this section to be assistance under a provision of law 
referred to in section 3695 of title 38, United States Code.''.
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