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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="3056" measure-id="id113hr3056" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2013-08-02" update-date="2015-01-28">
<title>Warriors' Peer-Outreach Pilot Program Act</title>
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<action-date>2013-08-02</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Warriors' Peer-Outreach Pilot Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Veteran Affairs (VA) to carry out a three-year pilot program to provide outreach and support services to veterans at institutions of higher learning that enable them to make more successful use of their entitlement to educational assistance.</p> <p>Requires the Secretary to select one four-year public university, one community college, and one private nonprofit college at which to conduct the pilot program.</p> <p>Requires the pilot program to provide peer-outreach and peer-support services to students at such institutions who are veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn by employing veterans who: (1) are using, or have successfully used, their entitlement to educational assistance; and (2) have served on active duty in a theater of combat operations.</p> <p>Directs the Secretary to provide training to the veterans employed by the pilot program and to develop requirements and measures for assessing the effectiveness of program services.</p>]]></summary-text>
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