[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2598 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2598

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to allow members of the Armed 
   Forces to use Department of Defense tuition assistance to pay for 
        education or training at lower or lateral degree levels.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2019

  Mr. Marchant (for himself and Mr. Cuellar) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to allow members of the Armed 
   Forces to use Department of Defense tuition assistance to pay for 
        education or training at lower or lateral degree levels.

    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 ``Developing Education by Leveraging 
Tuition Assistance Act'' or the ``DELTA Act''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT OF TUITION FOR OFF-DUTY TRAINING OR EDUCATION.

    Section 2007 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
        subsection (f):
    ``(f) A member of the armed forces may use assistance provided 
under this section to pay for education or training at a degree level 
equal to, or lower than, a degree level previously attained by the 
member if--
            ``(1) the education or training is relevant to the 
        professional duties of the member; and
            ``(2) the content of the education or training is not 
        substantially similar to the content of other education or 
        training already received by the member.''.
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