[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 100 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 100

    To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent veterans' 
   contributions to education benefits from reducing Federal student 
                         financial assistance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2007

   Mrs. Davis of California introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent veterans' 
   contributions to education benefits from reducing Federal student 
                         financial assistance.

    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 ``Veterans' Equity in Education Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF VETERANS' EDUCATION BENEFITS IN ESTIMATED 
              FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE CALCULATION.

    Section 480(j) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087vv(j)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(4) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for the first year a student 
receives veterans' education benefits under chapter 30 of title 38, 
United States Code, the amount of such veterans' education benefits 
that is treated as estimated financial assistance not received under 
this title for the purposes of section 471(3) shall be calculated by 
subtracting the amount that the student's basic pay was reduced under 
section 3011(b) or 3012(c) of such title in order to be eligible to 
receive such benefits from the amount of such veterans' education 
benefits.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2007.
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