Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Shawna Hill Post 9/11 Education Benefits Transferability Act”.
Shawna Hill Post 9/11 Education Benefits Transferability Act
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the transfer of unused Post-9/11 Educational Assistance benefits to additional dependents upon the death of the originally designated dependent.
Sec. 2 Additional authorized transfer of unused Post-9/11 Educational Assistance benefits to dependents upon death of originally designated dependent
in subsection (f)(1), by inserting after “section 3321” the following: “, and except as provided in subsection (k),”; and
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(k) Additional transfer upon death of dependent—In the case of a dependent to whom entitlement to educational assistance is transferred under this section who dies before using all of such entitlement, the individual who transferred the entitlement to the dependent may transfer any remaining entitlement to a different eligible dependent, notwithstanding whether the individual is serving as a member of the Armed Forces when such transfer is executed.”
Effective date— The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2009.