Bill Details
HR.968 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Introduced Date
2025-02-04
Policy Area
Armed Forces and National Security
Committees
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This bill would give certain veterans more time to use their Post-9/11 education benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. It changes the law so that some veterans who were limited by a past deadline can now use their education entitlement without that time restriction. In simple terms, it expands access to these benefits for veterans whose service dates would have otherwise left them out.
- It changes the service-date cutoff in the law from January 1, 2013, to January 1, 2001.
- This would remove the time limit for using benefits for certain veterans under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program.
- The bill is meant to help more veterans use their education benefits when they need them, rather than losing them because of a deadline.
Official Summaries
Time of Service Act
This bill adjusts the time limitation on the use of a veteran's educational assistance entitlement under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Specifically, veterans' entitlements shall not expire for those who were discharged or released from active duty on or after January 1, 2001.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 968 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 968
To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the time limitation
for the use of entitlement by certain veterans under the Post-9/11
Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 4, 2025
Mr. Steube 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 eliminate the time limitation
for the use of entitlement by certain veterans under the Post-9/11
Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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 ``Time of Service Act''.
SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF TIME LIMITATION FOR USE OF ENTITLEMENT UNDER
POST-9/11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT OF
VETERANS AFFAIRS.
Section 3321(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``January 1, 2013'' and
inserting ``January 1, 2001''; and
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``January 1, 2013'' and
inserting ``January 1, 2001''.
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