[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3731 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3731

To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase amounts available to 
State approving agencies to ascertain the qualifications of educational 
   institutions for furnishing courses of education to veterans and 
eligible persons under the Montgomery GI Bill and under other programs 
    of education administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2002

  Mr. Smith  of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. Evans, Mr. Simpson, Mr. 
 Reyes, Mr. Filner, Mr. Baker, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Shows, Mr. King, Mr. 
  Sanders, Mr. Baldacci, Ms. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. 
    Moore) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase amounts available to 
State approving agencies to ascertain the qualifications of educational 
   institutions for furnishing courses of education to veterans and 
eligible persons under the Montgomery GI Bill and under other programs 
    of education administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INCREASE IN AGGREGATE ANNUAL AMOUNT AVAILABLE FOR STATE 
              APPROVING AGENCIES FOR ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.

    Section 3674(a)(4) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(4)(A) The total amount made available under this section with 
respect to a fiscal year may not exceed the following:
            ``(i) For fiscal year 2002, $14,000,000.
            ``(ii) For fiscal year 2003, $18,000,000.
            ``(iii) For fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the amount for the 
        preceding fiscal year, increased by 3 percent.
            ``(iv) For fiscal year 2006 and each succeeding fiscal 
        year, the amount for fiscal year 2005.
    ``(B) For any fiscal year in which the total amount that would be 
made available under this section would exceed the amount applicable to 
that fiscal year under subparagraph (A) except for the provisions of 
this paragraph, the Secretary shall provide that each agency shall 
receive the same percentage of the amount applicable to that fiscal 
year under the preceding sentence as the agency would have received of 
the total amount that would have been made available without the 
limitation of this paragraph.''.
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