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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1423 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for Post-9/ |
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| 6 | 6 | | 11 Educational Assistance to members of the National Guard who per- |
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| 7 | 7 | | form certain full-time duty, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY18, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. L |
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| 11 | 11 | | EVIN(for himself, Mr. KELLYof Mississippi, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | C |
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| 13 | 13 | | ISCOMANI, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. HOULAHAN, Mr. MRVAN, Ms. PEREZ, |
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| 14 | 14 | | Mr. S |
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| 15 | 15 | | TANTON, Ms. NORTON, and Ms. TLAIB) introduced the following |
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| 16 | 16 | | bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility |
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| 19 | 19 | | for Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to members of the |
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| 20 | 20 | | National Guard who perform certain full-time duty, and |
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| 21 | 21 | | for other purposes. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Guard and Reserve 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | GI Bill Parity Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •HR 1423 IH |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR POST-9/11 EDU-1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | CATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | NATIONAL GUARD WHO PERFORM CERTAIN 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | FULL-TIME DUTY. 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (a) I |
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| 35 | 35 | | NGENERAL.—Section 3301(1) of title 38, 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | United States Code, is amended— 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (1) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | follows: 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(B) In the case of members of the reserve 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | components of the Armed Forces— 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(i) service on active duty (as defined 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | in section 101(d) of title 10), inactive-duty 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | training (as defined in section 101(d) of 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | title 10), or annual training duty; or 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(ii) service on active duty under a 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | call or order to active duty under section 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 688, 12301(a), 12301(d), 12301(g), 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | 12301(h), 12302, 12304, 12304a, or 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | 12304b of title 10 or section 3713 of title 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | 14, but not including inactive duty training 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (as defined in section 101(d) of title 10) or 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | annual training duty.’’; and 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (2) in subparagraph (C)— 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and in-24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | serting a semicolon; and 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (B) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | following new clauses: 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(ii) in the National Guard when per-3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | forming full-time National Guard duty (as 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | defined in section 101 of title 32); or 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ‘‘(iii) in the National Guard when per-6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | forming active duty (as defined in section 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | 101 of title 32).’’. 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (b) E |
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| 68 | 68 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is one 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | year after the date of the enactment of this Act. 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (c) R |
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| 72 | 72 | | ETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.—The amend-12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to 13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | service performed on or after September 11, 2001. 14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (d) A |
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| 76 | 76 | | PPLICATION OFTIMELIMITATION FORUSE OF 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | E |
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| 78 | 78 | | NTITLEMENT.—Section 3321(a) of title 38, United 16 |
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| 79 | 79 | | States Code, shall apply to entitlement to educational as-17 |
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| 80 | 80 | | sistance acquired as a result of the amendments made by 18 |
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| 81 | 81 | | subsection (a) as if such amendments had been enacted 19 |
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| 82 | 82 | | immediately after the enactment of the Post-9/11 Vet-20 |
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| 83 | 83 | | erans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (Public Law 21 |
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| 84 | 84 | | 110–252). 22 |
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