Protecting Apprenticeship Training for Veterans Act

Protecting Apprenticeship Training for Veterans Act

This bill adjusts the administration of certain benefits for veterans participating in an apprenticeship or other on-job training during the period between March 1, 2020, and December 21, 2021, including by proportionately reducing the 120-hour monthly training requirement to reflect an individual's period of unemployment without a reduction in training assistance.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8426 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8426

To provide for modified requirements relating to apprenticeship and on-
     job training programs during the COVID-19 emergency under the 
educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2020

 Mr. Lamb (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Cisneros) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for modified requirements relating to apprenticeship and on-
     job training programs during the COVID-19 emergency under the 
educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
                        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 ``Protecting Apprenticeship Training 
for Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. APPRENTICESHIP OR ON-JOB TRAINING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--During the period described in subsection (b), 
subsection (e) of section 3687 of title 38, United States Code, shall 
be applied by substituting the following for paragraph (2):
            ``(2)(A) Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), for any 
        month in which an individual fails to complete 120 hours of 
        training, the entitlement otherwise chargeable under paragraph 
        (1) shall be reduced in the same proportion as the monthly 
        training assistance allowance payable is reduced under 
        subsection (b)(3).
            ``(B) In the case of an individual who is unemployed during 
        any month, the 120-hour requirement under subparagraph (A) for 
        that month shall be reduced proportionately to reflect the 
        individual's period of unemployment, except that the amount of 
        monthly training assistance otherwise payable to the individual 
        under subsection (b)(3) shall not be reduced.
            ``(C) Any period during which an individual is unemployed 
        shall not--
                    ``(i) be charged against any entitlement to 
                educational assistance of the individual; or
                    ``(ii) be counted against the aggregate period for 
                which section 3695 of this title limits the receipt of 
                educational assistance by such individual.
            ``(D) Any amount by which the entitlement of an individual 
        is reduced under subparagraph (A) shall not--
                    ``(i) be charged against any entitlement to 
                educational assistance of the individual; or
                    ``(ii) be counted against the aggregate period for 
                which section 3695 of this title limits the receipt of 
                educational assistance by such individual.
            ``(E) In the case of an individual who fails to complete 
        120 hours of training during a month, but who completed more 
        than 120 hours of training during the preceding month, the 
        individual may apply the number of hours in excess of 120 that 
        the individual completed for that month to the month for which 
        the individual failed to complete 120 hours. If the addition of 
        such excess hours results in a total of 120 hours or more, the 
        individual shall be treated as an individual who has completed 
        120 hours of training for that month. Any excess hours applied 
        to a different month under this subparagraph may only be 
        applied to one such month.
            ``(F) This paragraph applies to amounts described in 
        section 3313(g)(3)(B)(iv) and section 3032(c)(2) of this title 
        and section 16131(d)(2) of title 10.
            ``(G) In this paragraph:
                    ``(i) The term `unemployed' includes being 
                furloughed or being scheduled to work zero hours.
                    ``(ii) The term `fails to complete 120 hours of 
                training' means, with respect to an individual, that 
                during any month, the individual completes at least one 
                hour, but fewer than 120 hours, of training, including 
                in a case in which the individual is unemployed for 
                part of, but not the whole, month.''.
    (b) Applicability Period.--The period described in this section is 
the period beginning on March 1, 2020, and ending on December 21, 2021.
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