Fairness in Veterans' Education Act of 2025

Fairness in Veterans’ Education Act of 2025

This bill modifies the process for repaying service members and veterans who paid to keep benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill, but later chose to utilize Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits. Specifically, the bill removes the requirement for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to issue the repayments with the last monthly housing stipend under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. This requirement has limited the repayments to individuals who are receiving stipends. Under the bill, the VA must make such a repayment before the exhaustion of the individual's entitlement to education assistance.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 972 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 972

To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that the Secretary of 
    Veterans Affairs repays members of the Armed Forces for certain 
   contributions made by such members towards Post-9/11 Educational 
                  Assistance, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 11, 2025

Mr. Banks (for himself and Mr. Gallego) 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 ensure that the Secretary of 
    Veterans Affairs repays members of the Armed Forces for certain 
   contributions made by such members towards Post-9/11 Educational 
                  Assistance, 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 ``Fairness in Veterans' Education Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. REPAYMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 
              TOWARD POST-9/11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 3327(f)(3) of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ``together'' and all that follows through 
``(as applicable),''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on August 1, 2025.
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