This bill eliminates the 10-year time limit on the availability of the Department of Veterans Affairs Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance program for certain spouses who become eligible for such benefit on or after August 1, 2022.
To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the time period for 
  eligibility under Survivors' And Dependents' Educational Assistance 
               Program of Department of Veterans Affairs.

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

SECTION 1. TIME PERIOD FOR ELIGIBILITY UNDER SURVIVORS' AND DEPENDENTS' 
              EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS.

    Section 3512(b)(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``or (D)'' and 
        inserting ``(D), or (E)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
    ``(E) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), an eligible person referred 
to in that subparagraph who is made eligible on or after August 1, 
2022, may be afforded educational assistance under this chapter at any 
time after such date.''.
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To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the time period for eligibility under Survivors' And Dependents' Educational Assistance Program of Department of Veterans Affairs.
To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the time period for eligibility under Survivors' And Dependents' Educational Assistance Program of Department of Veterans Affairs.
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the time period for eligibility under Survivors' And Dependents' Educational Assistance Program of Department of Veterans Affairs.
Rep. Mace, Nancy