Informing VETS Act

Informing Veterans on Education for Transitioning Servicemembers Act or the Informing VETS Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to regularly promote the Veteran Readiness and Employment program by (1) sending a letter to each veteran entitled to the program that explains the educational benefits of the program, and (2) providing in each letter and online a side-by-side comparison of benefits between the program and Post-9/11 GI Bill educational assistance.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5483 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5483

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to regularly promote programs under chapter 31 of such 
                                 title.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 5, 2021

   Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio (for himself and Mr. Allred) 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 direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to regularly promote programs under chapter 31 of such 
                                 title.

    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 ``Informing Veterans on Education for 
Transitioning Servicemembers Act'' or the ``Informing VETS Act''.

SEC. 2. INFORMATION CAMPAIGN REGARDING VETERAN READINESS AND EMPLOYMENT 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 3116 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) The Secretary shall regularly promote programs under this 
chapter by--
            ``(1) sending a letter to each veteran entitled to such a 
        program that explain educational benefits of such programs; and
            ``(2) providing a side-by-side comparison of benefits 
        between such programs and educational assistance under chapter 
        33 of this title--
                    ``(A) with each letter under paragraph (1); and
                    ``(B) on a publicly accessible website of the 
                Department.''.
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