[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2011 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2011

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce the credit hour 
requirement for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship program of the 
        Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 27, 2019

 Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Manchin, Ms. Sinema, and Mr. 
Cruz) 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 reduce the credit hour 
requirement for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship program of the 
        Department of Veterans Affairs, 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 ``Veteran STEM Scholarship Improvement 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN CREDIT HOUR REQUIREMENT FOR EDITH NOURSE ROGERS 
              STEM SCHOLARSHIP.

    Section 3320(b)(4)(A)(i) of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``more than the standard 128 semester (or 192 
quarter) credit hours'' and inserting ``at least the standard 120 
semester (or 180 quarter) credit hours''.
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