[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3389 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3389

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt individuals who 
  receive certain educational assistance for service in the Selected 
 Reserve from limitations on the receipt of assistance under Post-9/11 
  Educational Assistance Program for additional service in the Armed 
                    Forces, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 20, 2010

  Mrs. Hagan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt individuals who 
  receive certain educational assistance for service in the Selected 
 Reserve from limitations on the receipt of assistance under Post-9/11 
  Educational Assistance Program for additional service in the Armed 
                    Forces, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. EXEMPTION FROM LIMITATION ON PERIOD OF ASSISTANCE UNDER TWO 
              OR MORE PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS 
              WHO RECEIVE EDUCATION ASSISTANCE FOR SERVICE IN SELECTED 
              RESERVE.

    (a) Repeal of Limitation.--Section 3695 of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``The aggregate'' and 
        inserting ``Except as otherwise provided in this section, the 
        aggregate''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) In the case of an individual who served on active duty in the 
Armed Forces for not less than four years, the limitation in subsection 
(a) shall not apply with respect to the receipt by such individual of 
assistance under chapter 30 or 33 of this title, on the one hand, and 
the receipt by such individual of assistance under chapter 1606 or 1607 
of title 10, on the other hand.''.
    (b) Retroactive Application.--Subsection (c) of such section, as 
added by subsection (a) of this section, shall apply with respect to 
any individual described in such subsection (c) regardless of whether 
the individual's receipt of assistance under chapter 1606 or 1607 of 
title 10, United States Code, occurs before or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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