US Congress Senate Bill 2253 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-2-1)
Status: Introduced on November 5 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-11-18 - Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Education Relief and Restoration Act of 2015 This bill declares that, if a veteran is forced to discontinue a course as a result of an educational institution's permanent closure and did not receive credit or lost training time toward completion of the education program, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) educational assistance payments shall not, for a specified period of time, be: charged against the individual's entitlement to educational assistance, or counted against the aggregate period for which such assistance may be provided. The bill applies to school closures beginning with FY2015. The VA may continue to pay educational assistance and subsistence allowances to eligible veterans and eligible persons enrolled in specified courses for up to 4 weeks in any 12-month period when schools are temporarily closed under an established policy based on an executive order of the President or due to an emergency situation. The VA may also continue to pay a monthly housing stipend following a permanent school closure, but only until the earlier of: (1) the date of the end of the term, quarter, or semester during which the school closure occurred; and (2) the date that is four months after the school closure.

Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Education Relief and Restoration Act of 2015

Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Thom Tillis [R-NC]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]
Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-11-18	Senate	Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
2015-11-05	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

HB3991 (Related) 2015-12-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
SB2921 (Related) 2016-05-16 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 467.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2253/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s2253/BILLS-114s2253is.pdf