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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 116–36: To amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce the credit hour requirement for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.</dc:title>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 116–36—JULY 31, 2019</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/133/1048">133 STAT. 1048</page>
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<congress value="116">116th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce the credit hour requirement for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x9b0b1ef0-e820-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2019-07-31">July 31, 2019</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x9b0b1ef1-e820-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/116/hr/2196">H.R. 2196</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d172833e85" identifier="/us/pl/116/36/s1" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>REDUCTION IN CREDIT HOUR REQUIREMENT FOR EDITH NOURSE ROGERS STEM SCHOLARSHIP.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s3320/b/4/A/i">Section 3320(b)(4)(A)(i) of title 38, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>more than the standard 128 semester (or 192 quarter) credit hours</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>at least the standard 120 semester (or 180 quarter) credit hours</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2019-07-31">July 31, 2019</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/116/hr/2196">H.R. 2196</ref>:</heading>
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<headingText style="-uslm-lc:I658032">HOUSE REPORTS:</headingText> ┐No. <ref href="/us/hrpt/116/118">116–118</ref> (<committee>Comm. on Veterans’ Affairs</committee>).
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 165 (2019):</heading>
<p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x9b0b1ef2-e820-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">June 24, considered and passed House.</p><p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x9b0b1ef3-e820-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">July 25, considered and passed Senate.</p></note>
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