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This bill, known as the "Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act of 2025," aims to expand eligibility for Post-9/11 Educational Assistance (a veterans' education benefit program) for National Guard members who perform certain types of full-time military duty. Specifically, the bill modifies existing law to include more types of military service that qualify for educational benefits, such as active duty, inactive-duty training, annual training duty, and service under various specific military orders. The bill expands the definition of qualifying service to include National Guard members performing full-time National Guard duty and active duty as defined under different sections of federal law. These changes will apply retroactively to service performed on or after September 11, 2001, and will take effect one year after the Act's enactment. The bill ensures that the time limitation for using educational assistance will be calculated as if these amendments had been part of the original Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, effectively giving National Guard members broader and more flexible access to educational benefits for their military service.

Military Affairs and Security

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/649/all-info