[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5785 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5785

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the requirements of 
               the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2023

Ms. Budzinski introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the requirements of 
               the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship.

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

SECTION 1. MODIFICATIONS TO EDITH NOURSE ROGERS STEM SCHOLARSHIP.

    Section 3320 of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (2);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
                paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3)(A), as so redesignated--
                            (i) in clause (i)--
                                    (I) by inserting ``or graduate'' 
                                after ``post-secondary'';
                                    (II) by striking ``or'' before ``a 
                                dual degree''; and
                                    (III) by inserting ``or a graduate 
                                degree,'' after ``such an undergraduate 
                                college degree,'' and
                            (ii) in clause (ii)--
                                    (I) by striking ``60'' and 
                                inserting ``45''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``90'' and 
                                inserting ``67.5'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(1)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
                subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting before subparagraph (B), as so 
                redesignated, the following new subparagraph (A):
            ``(A) Individuals who have used the most number of months 
        of the educational assistance to which they are entitled under 
        this chapter.
            ``(B) Individuals who are using their entitlement under 
        this chapter to pursue a program of post-secondary education 
        and who have declared a major in a field referred to in 
        subsection (b)(3)(A)(i).''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
    ``(5) An individual who receives a benefit under this section may 
only use such benefit after the individual has used all of the 
educational assistance to which the individual is entitled under this 
chapter.''.
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