Official Summaries

Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act of 2025

This bill expands eligibility for Post-9/11 educational assistance for members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces and members of the National Guard. Specifically, the bill expands the types of activities that count towards Post-9/11 GI Bill eligibility to include active duty, inactive-duty training, annual training duty, and full-time National Guard duty or active duty. (Generally, under current law, only federal active duty counts towards educational assistance eligibility.)

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1423 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1423

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for Post-
   9/11 Educational Assistance to members of the National Guard who 
        perform certain full-time duty, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2025

   Mr. Levin (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Takano, Mr. 
   Ciscomani, Ms. McClellan, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Mrvan, Ms. Perez, Mr. 
  Stanton, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Tlaib) 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 expand eligibility for Post-
   9/11 Educational Assistance to members of the National Guard who 
        perform certain full-time duty, 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 ``Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR POST-9/11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 
              TO MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD WHO PERFORM CERTAIN 
              FULL-TIME DUTY.

    (a) In General.--Section 3301(1) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:
                    ``(B) In the case of members of the reserve 
                components of the Armed Forces--
                            ``(i) service on active duty (as defined in 
                        section 101(d) of title 10), inactive-duty 
                        training (as defined in section 101(d) of title 
                        10), or annual training duty; or
                            ``(ii) service on active duty under a call 
                        or order to active duty under section 688, 
                        12301(a), 12301(d), 12301(g), 12301(h), 12302, 
                        12304, 12304a, or 12304b of title 10 or section 
                        3713 of title 14, but not including inactive 
                        duty training (as defined in section 101(d) of 
                        title 10) or annual training duty.''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by striking ``; or'' and 
                inserting a semicolon; and
                    (B) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the 
                following new clauses:
                            ``(ii) in the National Guard when 
                        performing full-time National Guard duty (as 
                        defined in section 101 of title 32); or
                            ``(iii) in the National Guard when 
                        performing active duty (as defined in section 
                        101 of title 32).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
    (c) Retroactive Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection 
(a) shall apply with respect to service performed on or after September 
11, 2001.
    (d) Application of Time Limitation for Use of Entitlement.--Section 
3321(a) of title 38, United States Code, shall apply to entitlement to 
educational assistance acquired as a result of the amendments made by 
subsection (a) as if such amendments had been enacted immediately after 
the enactment of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 
2008 (Public Law 110-252).
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