[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1116 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1116

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the educational 
 assistance allowance with respect to skills or specialties for which 
               there is a critical shortage of personnel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 1995

  Mr. Montgomery (for himself, Mr. Stump, Mr. Buyer, Ms. Waters, Mr. 
  Evans, Mr. Clyburn, and Mr. Mascara) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on National Security

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the educational 
 assistance allowance with respect to skills or specialties for which 
               there is a critical shortage of personnel.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 16131 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(j) In the case of an individual who has a skill or specialty 
designated by the Secretary concerned as a skill or specialty in which 
there is a critical shortage of personnel or for which it is difficult 
to recruit, the Secretary concerned, under regulations prescribed by 
the Secretary of Defense, may increase the rate of the educational 
assistance allowance applicable to such individual to such rate in 
excess of the rate prescribed under subparagraphs (A) through (D) of 
subsection (b)(1) as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate, 
but the amount of any such increase may not exceed $350 per month.''.
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