[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3416-S3417]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 342. Mr. HOEVEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. CONCURRENT USE OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TUITION 
                   ASSISTANCE AND MONTGOMERY GI BILL-SELECTED 
                   RESERVE BENEFITS.

       (a) In General.--Section 16131 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(k)(1) In the case of an individual entitled to 
     educational assistance under this chapter who is pursuing 
     education or training described in subsection (a) or (c) of 
     section 2007 of this title on a half-time or more basis, the 
     Secretary concerned shall, at the election of the individual, 
     pay the individual educational assistance allowance under 
     this chapter for pursuit of such education or training as if 
     the individual were not also eligible to receive or in 
     receipt of educational assistance under section 2007 for 
     pursuit of such education or training.
       ``(2)(A) In the case of an individual entitled to 
     educational assistance under this chapter who is pursuing 
     education or training described in subsection (a) or (c) of 
     section 2007 of this title on a less than half-time basis, 
     the Secretary concerned shall, at the election of the 
     individual, pay the individual an educational assistance 
     allowance to meet all or a portion of the charges of the 
     educational institution for tuition or expenses for the 
     education or training that are not paid by the Secretary of 
     the military department concerned under such subsection.
       ``(B)(i) The amount of the educational assistance allowance 
     payable to an individual under this paragraph for a month 
     shall be the amount of the educational assistance allowance 
     to which the individual would be entitled for the month under 
     subsection (b), (d), (e), or (f).
       ``(ii) The number of months of entitlement charged under 
     this chapter in the case of an individual who has been paid 
     an educational assistance allowance under this paragraph 
     shall be equal to the number (including any fraction) 
     determined by dividing the total amount of such educational 
     assistance allowance paid the individual by the full-time 
     monthly institutional rate of educational assistance which 
     such individual would otherwise be paid under subparagraph 
     (A), (B), (C),

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     or (D) of subsection (b)(1), subsection (d), subsection (e), 
     or subsection (f), as the case may be.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 2007(d) of such title 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or chapter 1606 of 
     this title'' after ``of title 38''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, in the case of 
     educational assistance under chapter 30 of such title, and 
     section 16131(k), in the case of educational assistance under 
     chapter 1606 of this title'' before the period at the end.
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