H.R. 4830 · 115th Congress
Servicemembers Improved Transition through Reforms for Ensuring Progress Act
- Stage
- Passed a chamber
- Sponsor
- Gus Bilirakis
- Introduced
- 2018-01-18
- Latest action
- 2018-05-22 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Summary
Servicemembers Improved Transition through Reforms for Ensuring Progress Act or the SIT-REP Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to require educational institutions, in order to be eligible for educational payments, to adopt policies that prohibit penalizing student veterans for late VA assistance payments.
Such policies shall: (1) permit a veteran who provides the institution with a certificate of VA assistance eligibility to attend courses for a period without VA payment; and (2) ensure that the educational institution will not impose penalties such as late fees, course denial, or requiring an individual to borrow additional funds because of delayed VA payments.