To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans certain educational assistance payments through direct deposit.

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that a veteran may receive Post-9/11 educational assistance payments through direct deposit.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4203 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4203

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs to provide veterans certain educational assistance 
                    payments through direct deposit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 3, 2009

Mr. Hall of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
  Veterans Affairs to provide veterans certain educational assistance 
                    payments through direct deposit.

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

SECTION 1. EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS THROUGH DIRECT DEPOSIT.

    (a) In General.--Section 3323 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c) Direct Deposit.--Except as provided in section 3313(g), the 
Secretary shall ensure that a veteran may receive payments for 
assistance under this chapter directly in the bank account of such 
veteran.''.
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