[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 745 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 745

    To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent veterans' 
    contributions to GI bill benefits from reducing Federal student 
                         financial assistance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2001

  Mr. Evans introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent veterans' 
    contributions to GI bill benefits from reducing Federal student 
                         financial assistance.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Equity in Access to Education for 
Veterans Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 480(j) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087vv(j)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(4) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the amount of any veterans' 
educational benefits that a student receives under chapter 30 of title 
38, United States Code, that is treated as estimated financial 
assistance shall be reduced by the amount that the student's basic pay 
was reduced under section 3011(b) or 3012(c) of such title in order to 
be eligible to receive such benefits.''.
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