[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1330 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1330

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize a dependent to 
  transfer entitlement to Post-9/11 Education Assistance in cases in 
   which the dependent received the transfer of such entitlement to 
  assistance from an individual who subsequently died, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 8, 2017

 Mr. Rounds (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) 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 authorize a dependent to 
  transfer entitlement to Post-9/11 Education Assistance in cases in 
   which the dependent received the transfer of such entitlement to 
  assistance from an individual who subsequently died, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Increasing Transferability of 
Entitlement to Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF TRANSFER OF ENTITLEMENT TO POST-9/11 
              EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE BY DEPENDENTS WHO RECEIVE 
              TRANSFERS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO SUBSEQUENTLY DIE.

    Section 3319(f)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); 
        and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new 
        subparagraph (B):
                    ``(B) Transfers by dependents after death of 
                transferors.--In a case in which entitlement is 
                transferred to a dependent under this section and the 
                individual who made the transfer subsequently dies, 
                such dependent may transfer some or all of such 
                entitlement to another dependent to whom entitlement 
                was already transferred under this section by such 
                individual.''.
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