S 4231 United States Senate · 119th Congress

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase flexibility in the transferability of Post-9/11 Educational Assistance, and for other purposes.

This bill modifies the Post-9/11 GI Bill to allow service members to transfer their education benefits to family members under new conditions. It removes the requirement that family members must wait until the service member is no longer in the military to receive the transferred benefits, allowing transfers to happen at any time. The legislation also changes the minimum service requirement for transferring benefits from six years to a different threshold, though the exact new requirement is not fully detailed in the provided text. These changes directly affect military personnel who wish to give their education assistance to spouses or dependents. The bill updates the relevant sections of Title 38 of the United States Code to implement these policy adjustments.
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Mar 2026
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Introduced Mar 26, 2026 Last action Mar 26, 2026
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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