Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
This bill gives National Guard and Reserve members access to the same GI Bill education benefits that active duty service members get. Right now, many Guard and Reserve members who serve full-time duty do not qualify for these benefits because of how their service is classified. If this passes, tens of thousands of Guard and Reserve members who served since September 11, 2001, could use GI Bill benefits to pay for college or job training.
Tens of thousands of National Guard and Reserve members who served full-time duty since 2001 could gain access to education benefits worth up to roughly $28,000 per year , money for college or job training that current rules deny them based on how their service is technically classified, not how much they actually served.