US Congress Senate Bill 1070 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on April 23 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2403)
Pending: Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

GI Education Benefit Fairness Act of 2015 Expands the definition of "children," for purposes of provisions allowing members or former members of the uniformed services who served on active duty for specified periods beginning on or after September 11, 2001, to transfer their entitlement to educational assistance, to mean an unmarried person who: (1) is placed in the legal custody of a member or former member by court order for at least 12 consecutive months, (2) has not attained the age of 21, (3) has not attained the age of 23 and is enrolled in a full-time course of study at an institution of higher learning, (4) is incapable of self support due to a mental or physical incapacity that occurred while such person was a dependent of the member or former member, (5) is dependent on the member or former member for over one-half of his or her support, (6) resides with the member or former member unless separated due to military service or institutionalization for a disability or incapacitation, and (7) is not a dependent of a member or former member under any other provision defining dependent.

GI Education Benefit Fairness Act of 2015

Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2403)

HB2008 (Related) 2015-05-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1070/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1070/BILLS-114s1070is.pdf