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H.R.5538 - To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the inclusion of certain additional periods of active duty service for purposes of suspending charges to veterans' entitlement to educational assistance under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs during periods of suspended participation in vocational rehabilitation programs.115th Congress (2017-2018) |

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Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52] (Introduced 04/17/2018)
Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs | Senate - Veterans' Affairs
Committee Reports: H. Rept. 115-870
Latest Action: Senate - 07/25/2018 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.  (All Actions)

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This bill has the status Passed House

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Summary: H.R.5538 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)All Information (Except Text)

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Passed House without amendment (07/24/2018)

(Sec. 1) This bill provides that veterans participating in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) vocational rehabilitation program who are unable to complete the program because they are called to active reserve duty for a preplanned training operation in support of a combat command or in response to a natural disaster or emergency shall not have the period of the program for which they did not get credit count toward their VA assistance limit.