Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1423 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1423

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for Post-
   9/11 Educational Assistance to members of the National Guard who
        perform certain full-time duty, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2025

   Mr. Levin (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Takano, Mr.
   Ciscomani, Ms. McClellan, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Mrvan, Ms. Perez, Mr.
  Stanton, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Tlaib) introduced the following bill;
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for Post-
   9/11 Educational Assistance to members of the National Guard who
        perform certain full-time duty, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR POST-9/11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
              TO MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD WHO PERFORM CERTAIN
              FULL-TIME DUTY.

    (a) In General.--Section 3301(1) of title 38, United States Code,
is amended--
            (1) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:
                    ``(B) In the case of members of the reserve
                components of the Armed Forces--
                            ``(i) service on active duty (as defined in
                        section 101(d) of title 10), inactive-duty
                        training (as defined in section 101(d) of title
                        10), or annual training duty; or
                            ``(ii) service on active duty under a call
                        or order to active duty under section 688,
                        12301(a), 12301(d), 12301(g), 12301(h), 12302,
                        12304, 12304a, or 12304b of title 10 or section
                        3713 of title 14, but not including inactive
                        duty training (as defined in section 101(d) of
                        title 10) or annual training duty.''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by striking ``; or'' and
                inserting a semicolon; and
                    (B) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the
                following new clauses:
                            ``(ii) in the National Guard when
                        performing full-time National Guard duty (as
                        defined in section 101 of title 32); or
                            ``(iii) in the National Guard when
                        performing active duty (as defined in section
                        101 of title 32).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall
take effect on the date that is one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act.
    (c) Retroactive Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection
(a) shall apply with respect to service performed on or after September
11, 2001.
    (d) Application of Time Limitation for Use of Entitlement.--Section
3321(a) of title 38, United States Code, shall apply to entitlement to
educational assistance acquired as a result of the amendments made by
subsection (a) as if such amendments had been enacted immediately after
the enactment of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of
2008 (Public Law 110-252).
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