3.0.0 1598 2023-01-11T13:37:04Z 2023-01-11T13:37:04Z Senate S 2017-07-20 115 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Standing Reported by 2017-08-02T22:12:47Z Markup by 2017-07-26T15:15:00Z Referred to 2017-07-20T17:41:43Z Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 115 3218 HR 2017-08-16 Signed by President. Related bill CRS Related bill House To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the restoration of entitlement to educational assistance and other relief for veterans affected by school closure or disapproval, and for other purposes. 115 3372 HR 2017-07-24 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity. Related bill CRS Veterans Education Experience Improvement Act of 2017 115 1555 S 2017-07-13 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Related bill CRS 2017-08-02 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 200. 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Colmery Veterans Education Assistance Act of 2017 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53106 As reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on August 2, 2017 Armed Forces and National Security Administrative remedies Alabama Asia Chemical and biological weapons Colorado Computers and information technology Conflicts and wars Congressional oversight Department of Veterans Affairs Disability assistance District of Columbia Educational guidance Florida Government studies and investigations Hazardous wastes and toxic substances Higher education Illinois India Latin America Licensing and registrations Maryland Military facilities and property Military medicine Military personnel and dependents Mississippi Missouri National Guard and reserves New York State North Carolina Panama Performance measurement Science and engineering education South Carolina State and local government operations Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula User charges and fees Utah Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs Veterans' pensions and compensation Virginia Vocational and technical education Armed Forces and National Security 00 2017-07-20 Introduced in Senate 2019-08-16T14:52:37Z Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017

This bill revises education and related benefits provided to veterans, service members, dependents, and survivors.

The bill amends the Post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program to:

  • remove certain time restrictions on program use;
  • increase assistance for reservists, guardsmen, dependents, and surviving spouses and dependents;
  • provide full eligibility for Post-9/11 Purple Heart recipients and certain reservists and guardsmen;
  • provide an extra academic years' worth of benefits for STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) degree candidates;
  • establish a five-year pilot program for high technology courses;
  • restore eligibility for service members whose school closes in the middle of a semester;
  • authorize funding to improve claims processing;
  • permit assistance to be used at certain institutions that are not institutions of higher education; and
  • pro-rate the housing stipend for reservists called to active duty.

The bill authorizes the Edith Nurse Rogers STEM Scholarship to help veterans complete STEM degrees.

The Yellow Ribbon program is extended to Fry Scholarship recipients (surviving dependents of service members who died on active duty) and certain Purple Heart recipients. (The Yellow Ribbon program helps veterans pay for higher education tuition and fee costs not covered by the Post-9/11 program.)

The bill: (1) extends the Advisory Committee on Education, (2) increases survivors' and dependents' educational assistance, and (3) extends funding for state educational program approving agencies.

The bill provides statutory authority for the veterans success of campus program which provides veterans with on-campus educational and vocational counseling.

The Department of Veterans Affairs shall: (1) make a new determination regarding each denied veteran's claim for disability compensation in connection with full-body exposure to mustard gas or Lewisite at specified locations during World War II, and (2) presume such exposure unless there is affirmative evidence otherwise.

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