H.R. 3218 - 115th Congress (2017-2018) - Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017

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.

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08/16/2017

Signed by President.

08/07/2017

Presented to President.

08/03/2017

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

08/02/2017

Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4716)

08/02/2017

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4716)

07/26/2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

07/25/2017

Received in the Senate, read twice.

07/24/2017

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

07/24/2017

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)

07/24/2017

Passed/agreed to in House: 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)

07/24/2017

Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6197-6198)

07/24/2017

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.

07/24/2017

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3218.

07/24/2017

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6158-6170)

07/24/2017

Mr. Roe (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

07/24/2017

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.

07/24/2017

Committee on Armed Services discharged.

07/24/2017

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-247, Part I.

07/19/2017

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

07/19/2017

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

07/17/2017

Committee Hearings Held.

07/13/2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

07/13/2017

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.

07/13/2017

Introduced in House

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