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	<form>
		<distribution-code display="yes">IIB</distribution-code>
		<congress display="yes">111th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session display="yes">1st Session</session>
		<legis-num>H. R. 1172</legis-num>
		<current-chamber display="yes">IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
		  STATES</current-chamber>
		<action>
			<action-date date="20090624">June 24, 2009</action-date>
			<action-desc>Received; read twice and referred to the
			 <committee-name committee-id="SSVA00">Committee on Veterans'
			 Affairs</committee-name></action-desc>
		</action>
		<legis-type>AN ACT</legis-type>
		<official-title display="yes">To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
		  to include on the Internet website of the Department of Veterans Affairs a list
		  of organizations that provide scholarships to veterans and their
		  survivors.</official-title>
	</form>
	<legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" id="H14C484C019374E3C8C93B614C37394EF" style="OLC">
		<section id="H27F25CD45DA44D659923916871D7054A" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Pat Tillman Veterans’
			 Scholarship Initiative</header>
			<subsection id="H06E0B488FF2747DB9462856A1D6A343B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Availability of
			 scholarship information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">By
			 not later than June 1, 2010, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall include on
			 the Internet website of the Department of Veterans Affairs—</text>
				<paragraph id="HE8A2FEED2C7C4C8BB9EA17466FB5827A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a
			 list of organizations that provide scholarships to veterans and their survivors
			 and, for each such organization, a link to the Internet website of the
			 organization;</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H79B0C77DBDF640C7ACC401E9B300E4A4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a statement that the information described
			 in paragraph (1) is not an all-inclusive list of scholarships available to
			 veterans and their survivors; and</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H7A876EE4027D47CBB1D34EBB2310A912"><enum>(3)</enum><text>a
			 statement that the Secretary has not verified the information available on the
			 Internet websites of the organizations referred to paragraph (1) and that the
			 Secretary does not endorse any offer made by any sponsor of any such the
			 website.</text>
				</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H43E1EBDF81CE48F0BA95E2447A957C08"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Maintenance of
			 scholarship information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
			 Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall make reasonable efforts to notify schools
			 and other appropriate entities of the opportunity to be included on the
			 Internet website of the Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to subsection
			 (a).</text>
			</subsection></section></legis-body>
	<attestation>
		<attestation-group>
			<attestation-date chamber="House" date="20090623">Passed the House of
			 Representatives June 23, 2009.</attestation-date>
			<attestor display="yes">Lorraine C. Miller,</attestor>
			<role>Clerk.</role>
		</attestation-group>
	</attestation>
</bill>
