Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act

Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act

This bill expands eligibility for and modifies administration of the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship. The scholarship allows individuals who are entitled to Post-9/11 GI Bill educational assistance and are pursuing eligible degrees in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or health care to receive up to nine additional months of benefits (capped at $30,000).

The bill eliminates the requirement that an individual must have less than 180 days of remaining educational assistance entitlement (or no entitlement remaining) to be eligible for the scholarship.

Additionally, the bill reduces by 25% the number of credits an individual must have completed in order to be eligible for the scholarship.

In situations where there are insufficient funds available in a fiscal year, the bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to give priority to individuals who have used the most months of their educational assistance entitlement and those who are using their entitlement to pursue a program of post-secondary education in specified fields (e.g., engineering).

The bill specifies that individuals who receive the scholarship benefit may only use the benefit after they have used all of their educational assistance entitlement under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2034 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2034

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the requirements of 
               the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2025

 Ms. Budzinski (for herself and Mr. Hamadeh of Arizona) 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 modify the requirements of 
               the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship.

    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 ``Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship 
Opportunity Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO EDITH NOURSE ROGERS STEM SCHOLARSHIP.

    Section 3320 of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (2);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
                paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated, in 
                subparagraph (A)(ii)--
                            (i) by striking ``60'' and inserting 
                        ``45''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``90'' and inserting 
                        ``67.5'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(1)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
                subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting before subparagraph (C), as so 
                redesignated, the following new subparagraph (A):
            ``(A) Individuals who have used the most number of months 
        of the educational assistance to which they are entitled under 
        this chapter.
            ``(B) Individuals who are using their entitlement under 
        this chapter to pursue a program of post-secondary education 
        and who have declared a major in a field referred to in 
        subsection (b)(3)(A)(i).''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
    ``(5) An individual who receives a benefit under this section may 
only use such benefit after the individual has used all of the 
educational assistance to which the individual is entitled under this 
chapter.''.
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