Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017
USA115th CongressHR-3218| House
| Updated: 8/16/2017
David P. Roe
Republican Representative
Tennessee
Cosponsors (121)
Tim Ryan (Democratic)Val Butler Demings (Democratic)Clay Higgins (Republican)Tom O'Halleran (Democratic)Markwayne Mullin (Republican)Marc A. Veasey (Democratic)Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (Democratic)Steven M. Palazzo (Republican)Raúl M. Grijalva (Democratic)Stephanie N. Murphy (Democratic)Jim Banks (Republican)Peter T. King (Republican)Joyce Beatty (Democratic)David N. Cicilline (Democratic)Lee M. Zeldin (Republican)Brian Higgins (Democratic)Kathleen M. Rice (Democratic)Derek Kilmer (Democratic)John A. Yarmuth (Democratic)Neal P. Dunn (Republican)Madeleine Z. Bordallo (Democratic)Joe Courtney (Democratic)Robert J. Wittman (Republican)Sanford D. Bishop (Democratic)Brad R. Wenstrup (Republican)Juan Vargas (Democratic)Bobby L. Rush (Democratic)Jackie Walorski (Republican)Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Democratic)Paul Cook (Republican)Jimmy Panetta (Democratic)Carol Shea-Porter (Democratic)J. Luis Correa (Democratic)Dina Titus (Democratic)Niki Tsongas (Democratic)Debbie Dingell (Democratic)Susan A. Davis (Democratic)Scott H. Peters (Democratic)David Young (Republican)Tim Walberg (Republican)Bruce Poliquin (Republican)Thomas R. Suozzi (Democratic)Collin C. Peterson (Democratic)Anthony G. Brown (Democratic)Mike Bishop (Republican)Ken Calvert (Republican)Peter A. DeFazio (Democratic)Daniel T. Kildee (Democratic)Michelle Lujan Grisham (Democratic)David B. McKinley (Republican)Ro Khanna (Democratic)Elizabeth H. Esty (Democratic)Lloyd Smucker (Republican)Luke Messer (Republican)Alan S. Lowenthal (Democratic)Ann M. Kuster (Democratic)Gus M. Bilirakis (Republican)Kurt Schrader (Democratic)André Carson (Democratic)Brendan F. Boyle (Democratic)Christopher H. Smith (Republican)Darrell Issa (Republican)Joaquin Castro (Democratic)Jodey C. Arrington (Republican)Keith Ellison (Democratic)Kyrsten Sinema (Independent)G. K. Butterfield (Democratic)Timothy J. Walz (Democratic)Jacky Rosen (Democratic)Doris O. Matsui (Democratic)Gene Green (Democratic)Ryan A. Costello (Republican)Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democratic)Jerrold Nadler (Democratic)Will Hurd (Republican)Anna G. Eshoo (Democratic)Ami Bera (Democratic)Mark Takano (Democratic)John H. Rutherford (Republican)Pramila Jayapal (Democratic)Kathy Castor (Democratic)Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democratic)Brad Sherman (Democratic)Denny Heck (Democratic)Daniel Lipinski (Democratic)Henry Cuellar (Democratic)Tulsi Gabbard (Democratic)Salud O. Carbajal (Democratic)Jamie Raskin (Democratic)Raul R. Labrador (Republican)Jim Costa (Democratic)Donald S. Beyer (Democratic)Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (Republican)Louise McIntosh Slaughter (Democratic)Mike Bost (Republican)Diana DeGette (Democratic)Ron Kind (Democratic)Nydia M. Velázquez (Democratic)Julia Brownley (Democratic)Kevin McCarthy (Republican)Beto O'Rourke (Democratic)Jared Polis (Democratic)Cedric L. Richmond (Democratic)Brian K. Fitzpatrick (Republican)Robert A. Brady (Democratic)Seth Moulton (Democratic)Mike Thompson (Democratic)Bill Posey (Republican)Susan W. Brooks (Republican)Nancy Pelosi (Democratic)Josh Gottheimer (Democratic)Ed Perlmutter (Democratic)Jenniffer González-Colón (Republican)Mike Coffman (Republican)Cheri Bustos (Democratic)Bradley Scott Schneider (Democratic)Jack Bergman (Republican)Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democratic)Bill Pascrell (Democratic)Colleen Hanabusa (Democratic)Grace F. Napolitano (Democratic)
Military Personnel Subcommittee, Veterans' Affairs Committee, Armed Services Committee, Economic Opportunity Subcommittee
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor
- Passed Chamber
- Enacted
Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 This bill revises education and related benefits provided to veterans, service members, dependents, and survivors. The bill amends the Post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program to: remove certain time restrictions on program use; increase assistance for reservists, guardsmen, dependents, and surviving spouses and dependents; provide full eligibility for Post-9/11 Purple Heart recipients and certain reservists and guardsmen; provide an extra academic years' worth of benefits for STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) degree candidates; establish a five-year pilot program for high technology courses; restore eligibility for service members whose school closes in the middle of a semester; authorize funding to improve claims processing; permit assistance to be used at certain institutions that are not institutions of higher education; and pro-rate the housing stipend for reservists called to active duty. The bill authorizes the Edith Nurse Rogers STEM Scholarship to help veterans complete STEM degrees. The Yellow Ribbon program is extended to Fry Scholarship recipients (surviving dependents of service members who died on active duty) and certain Purple Heart recipients. (The Yellow Ribbon program helps veterans pay for higher education tuition and fee costs not covered by the Post-9/11 program.) The bill: (1) extends the Advisory Committee on Education, (2) increases survivors' and dependents' educational assistance, and (3) extends funding for state educational program approving agencies. The bill provides statutory authority for the VetSuccess on Campus program, which provides veterans with on-campus educational and vocational counseling. The Department of Veterans Affairs shall make a new determination regarding each denied veteran's claim for disability compensation in connection with full-body exposure to mustard gas or Lewisite at specified locations during World War II and resolve reasonable doubt in favor of the veteran. For more detailed information, see Congressional Research Service Report R45205 , Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-48) .
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Timeline
Introduced in House
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Committee Hearings Held.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.
Committee on Armed Services discharged.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-247, Part I.
Mr. Roe (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6158-6170)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3218.
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6197-6198)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 405 - 0 (Roll no. 409). (text: CR H6158-6165)
View VoteMotion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate, read twice.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Latest Companion Bill Action
S 115-1598Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Isakson without amendment. Without written report.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4716)
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4716)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 115-48.
Armed Forces and National Security
Administrative remediesComputers and information technologyCongressional oversightDepartment of Veterans AffairsEducational guidanceHigher educationLicensing and registrationsMilitary medicineMilitary personnel and dependentsNational Guard and reservesScience and engineering educationStudent aid and college costsTeaching, teachers, curriculaUser charges and feesVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationVeterans' loans, housing, homeless programsVeterans' pensions and compensationVocational and technical education
Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017
USA115th CongressHR-3218| House
| Updated: 8/16/2017
Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 This bill revises education and related benefits provided to veterans, service members, dependents, and survivors. The bill amends the Post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program to: remove certain time restrictions on program use; increase assistance for reservists, guardsmen, dependents, and surviving spouses and dependents; provide full eligibility for Post-9/11 Purple Heart recipients and certain reservists and guardsmen; provide an extra academic years' worth of benefits for STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) degree candidates; establish a five-year pilot program for high technology courses; restore eligibility for service members whose school closes in the middle of a semester; authorize funding to improve claims processing; permit assistance to be used at certain institutions that are not institutions of higher education; and pro-rate the housing stipend for reservists called to active duty. The bill authorizes the Edith Nurse Rogers STEM Scholarship to help veterans complete STEM degrees. The Yellow Ribbon program is extended to Fry Scholarship recipients (surviving dependents of service members who died on active duty) and certain Purple Heart recipients. (The Yellow Ribbon program helps veterans pay for higher education tuition and fee costs not covered by the Post-9/11 program.) The bill: (1) extends the Advisory Committee on Education, (2) increases survivors' and dependents' educational assistance, and (3) extends funding for state educational program approving agencies. The bill provides statutory authority for the VetSuccess on Campus program, which provides veterans with on-campus educational and vocational counseling. The Department of Veterans Affairs shall make a new determination regarding each denied veteran's claim for disability compensation in connection with full-body exposure to mustard gas or Lewisite at specified locations during World War II and resolve reasonable doubt in favor of the veteran. For more detailed information, see Congressional Research Service Report R45205 , Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-48) .
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Timeline
Introduced in House
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Committee Hearings Held.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.
Committee on Armed Services discharged.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-247, Part I.
Mr. Roe (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6158-6170)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3218.
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6197-6198)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 405 - 0 (Roll no. 409). (text: CR H6158-6165)
View VoteMotion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate, read twice.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Latest Companion Bill Action
S 115-1598Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Isakson without amendment. Without written report.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4716)
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4716)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 115-48.
David P. Roe
Republican Representative
Tennessee
Cosponsors (121)
Tim Ryan (Democratic)Val Butler Demings (Democratic)Clay Higgins (Republican)Tom O'Halleran (Democratic)Markwayne Mullin (Republican)Marc A. Veasey (Democratic)Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (Democratic)Steven M. Palazzo (Republican)Raúl M. Grijalva (Democratic)Stephanie N. Murphy (Democratic)Jim Banks (Republican)Peter T. King (Republican)Joyce Beatty (Democratic)David N. Cicilline (Democratic)Lee M. Zeldin (Republican)Brian Higgins (Democratic)Kathleen M. Rice (Democratic)Derek Kilmer (Democratic)John A. Yarmuth (Democratic)Neal P. Dunn (Republican)Madeleine Z. Bordallo (Democratic)Joe Courtney (Democratic)Robert J. Wittman (Republican)Sanford D. Bishop (Democratic)Brad R. Wenstrup (Republican)Juan Vargas (Democratic)Bobby L. Rush (Democratic)Jackie Walorski (Republican)Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Democratic)Paul Cook (Republican)Jimmy Panetta (Democratic)Carol Shea-Porter (Democratic)J. Luis Correa (Democratic)Dina Titus (Democratic)Niki Tsongas (Democratic)Debbie Dingell (Democratic)Susan A. Davis (Democratic)Scott H. Peters (Democratic)David Young (Republican)Tim Walberg (Republican)Bruce Poliquin (Republican)Thomas R. Suozzi (Democratic)Collin C. Peterson (Democratic)Anthony G. Brown (Democratic)Mike Bishop (Republican)Ken Calvert (Republican)Peter A. DeFazio (Democratic)Daniel T. Kildee (Democratic)Michelle Lujan Grisham (Democratic)David B. McKinley (Republican)Ro Khanna (Democratic)Elizabeth H. Esty (Democratic)Lloyd Smucker (Republican)Luke Messer (Republican)Alan S. Lowenthal (Democratic)Ann M. Kuster (Democratic)Gus M. Bilirakis (Republican)Kurt Schrader (Democratic)André Carson (Democratic)Brendan F. Boyle (Democratic)Christopher H. Smith (Republican)Darrell Issa (Republican)Joaquin Castro (Democratic)Jodey C. Arrington (Republican)Keith Ellison (Democratic)Kyrsten Sinema (Independent)G. K. Butterfield (Democratic)Timothy J. Walz (Democratic)Jacky Rosen (Democratic)Doris O. Matsui (Democratic)Gene Green (Democratic)Ryan A. Costello (Republican)Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democratic)Jerrold Nadler (Democratic)Will Hurd (Republican)Anna G. Eshoo (Democratic)Ami Bera (Democratic)Mark Takano (Democratic)John H. Rutherford (Republican)Pramila Jayapal (Democratic)Kathy Castor (Democratic)Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democratic)Brad Sherman (Democratic)Denny Heck (Democratic)Daniel Lipinski (Democratic)Henry Cuellar (Democratic)Tulsi Gabbard (Democratic)Salud O. Carbajal (Democratic)Jamie Raskin (Democratic)Raul R. Labrador (Republican)Jim Costa (Democratic)Donald S. Beyer (Democratic)Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (Republican)Louise McIntosh Slaughter (Democratic)Mike Bost (Republican)Diana DeGette (Democratic)Ron Kind (Democratic)Nydia M. Velázquez (Democratic)Julia Brownley (Democratic)Kevin McCarthy (Republican)Beto O'Rourke (Democratic)Jared Polis (Democratic)Cedric L. Richmond (Democratic)Brian K. Fitzpatrick (Republican)Robert A. Brady (Democratic)Seth Moulton (Democratic)Mike Thompson (Democratic)Bill Posey (Republican)Susan W. Brooks (Republican)Nancy Pelosi (Democratic)Josh Gottheimer (Democratic)Ed Perlmutter (Democratic)Jenniffer González-Colón (Republican)Mike Coffman (Republican)Cheri Bustos (Democratic)Bradley Scott Schneider (Democratic)Jack Bergman (Republican)Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democratic)Bill Pascrell (Democratic)Colleen Hanabusa (Democratic)Grace F. Napolitano (Democratic)
Military Personnel Subcommittee, Veterans' Affairs Committee, Armed Services Committee, Economic Opportunity Subcommittee
Armed Forces and National Security
Related Bills
- HR 115-3205: To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a five-year extension of the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education.
- HR 115-1104: To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for pro-rated charges to entitlement to educational assistance under Department of Veterans Affairs Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program for certain licensure and certification tests and national tests, and for other purposes.
- HR 115-1994: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make improvements to the information technology system of the Veterans Benefits Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
- HR 115-2099: To amend title 38, United States Code, to consider certain time spent by members of reserve components of the Armed Forces while receiving medical care from the Secretary of Defense as active duty for purposes of eligibility for Post-9/11 Educational Assistance, and for other purposes.
- HR 115-1956: To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amounts of educational assistance payable under Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- HR 115-925: To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the eligibility for monthly stipends paid under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program for certain members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces.
- S 115-1555: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the administration of Post-9/11 Educational Assistance by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
- S 115-410: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the transfer of unused Post-9/11 Educational Assistance benefits to additional dependents upon the death of the originally designated dependent.
- S 115-1362: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to consolidate certain eligibility tiers under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- S 115-1192: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for pro-rated charges to entitlement to educational assistance under Department of Veterans Affairs Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program for certain licensure and certification tests and national tests, and for other purposes.
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor
- Passed Chamber
- Enacted
Administrative remediesComputers and information technologyCongressional oversightDepartment of Veterans AffairsEducational guidanceHigher educationLicensing and registrationsMilitary medicineMilitary personnel and dependentsNational Guard and reservesScience and engineering educationStudent aid and college costsTeaching, teachers, curriculaUser charges and feesVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationVeterans' loans, housing, homeless programsVeterans' pensions and compensationVocational and technical education