Student Veteran Financial Aid Fairness Act of 2008

Student Veteran Financial Aid Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit educational assistance provided under specified benefit programs for veterans and members of the Selected Reserve from being considered in analyses of their need for assistance under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5474 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5474

To prevent payments of educational assistance for veterans and members 
    of the Selected Reserve from being offset in the calculation of 
         financial aid under the Higher Education Act of 1965.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 19, 2008

 Mr. Mitchell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To prevent payments of educational assistance for veterans and members 
    of the Selected Reserve from being offset in the calculation of 
         financial aid under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

    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 ``Student Veteran Financial Aid 
Fairness Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT AS OTHER FINANCIAL AID.

    Section 480(j)(1) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087vv(j)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``veterans' education benefits as in 
        subsection (c) of this section, and''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``, but excluding any payments of educational 
        assistance to veterans under title 38, United States Code, and 
        to members of the Selected Reserve under chapters 1606 and 1607 
        of title 10, United States Code''.
                                 <all>