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<dc:title>119 HR 981 : Veterans Education Transparency and Training Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-04-10</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">IIB</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 981</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250410">April 10, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Received; read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSVA00">Committee on Veterans' Affairs</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>AN ACT</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the processes to approve programs of education for purposes of the educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HA68A208F83314F42A26CD5A9228E7DF1" style="OLC"><pagebreak></pagebreak><section id="H668E87E9A45742A69448BDC6DC5340EB" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Veterans Education Transparency and Training Act</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>VETT Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section id="H3915DD62B7014CFD93AA482C32503DCC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header>Processes to approve programs of education for purposes of the educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs</header><subsection id="H9452BD22DD784E1292F8420E7F678764"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Limitation of disapproval of programs of education for failure To provide certain forms</header><text>Section 3679(f)(5) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph id="H10FFA6A6C69447D38DDC918C6955901A" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>this paragraph</quote> and inserting <quote>this subparagraph</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H784E46E27CA4401DAB8D056AA6467EBD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>this paragraph</quote> and inserting <quote>subparagraph (A)</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H8F8B7616E6B34123AD47F9FEA60453AB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text><quoted-block style="USC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H723BF33D2FE94AD88DBEB69799EAC8EC"><subparagraph id="HEA7EF2D081544ADDAE14C86325CFB533" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If an educational institution cannot provide to an individual a form under paragraph (1) that contains all of the information required under subparagraph (A) of such paragraph, the educational institution shall provide to such individual, with the form under such paragraph, a notice—</text><clause id="H608E3A34B266475198C7493915851C84"><enum>(i)</enum><text>that specifies what such information may be inaccurate or incomplete; and</text></clause><clause id="H05EE5711EBC54928A944ED86CE9B8F5D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that includes, in place of the information that may be inaccurate or incomplete, the best estimate available on the date of such notice.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6100C058070E47D498D3FAA1CE897FAD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Publication of information about training for school certifying officials</header><text>The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall establish a website to serve as a central location for the publication of information about the training that the Department of Veterans Affairs provides for school certifying officials and shall update such information on a regular basis.</text></subsection></section></legis-body><attestation><attestation-group><attestation-date date="20250409" chamber="House">Passed the House of Representatives April 9, 2025.</attestation-date><attestor display="yes">Kevin F. McCumber,</attestor><role>Clerk.</role></attestation-group></attestation></bill> 

