Notice2025-12004
Notice of Department of Veterans Affairs Implementation of Law Concerning Changes to Policies and Guidance Affecting the Educational Assistance Programs of the Department
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Published
June 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
Abstract
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is informing the public of efforts to implement Section 213 of the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvements Act (Dole Act), which requires VA to make notice and justification for changes in policy and guidance available to students, educational institutions, and the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 123 (Monday, June 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27906-27907]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12004]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Notice of Department of Veterans Affairs Implementation of Law
Concerning Changes to Policies and Guidance Affecting the Educational
Assistance Programs of the Department
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice of Changes to Department of Veterans Affairs Policies
and Guidance Affecting the Educational Assistance Programs of the
Department.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is informing the
public of efforts to implement Section 213 of the Senator Elizabeth
Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvements Act
(Dole Act), which requires VA to make notice and justification for
changes in policy and guidance available to students, educational
institutions, and the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and
House of Representatives.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Alphonso, Veterans Benefits
Administration, (202) 461-9800.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 2, 2025, the ``Senator Elizabeth
Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvements Act''
was signed into law. Section 213 of the Act, ``Notice of changes to
Department of Veterans Affairs policies and guidance affecting the
educational assistance programs of the Department,'' amends subchapter
III of chapter 36 of title 38, United States Code, by adding a new
section 3699D, ``Notice of changes to policies and guidance relating to
educational assistance programs''.
This new section prohibits VA from implementing any changes in
policy or guidance that relates to any VA educational assistance
program, before a date 90 days after the date on which VA makes
available to students, educational institutions, and the Committees on
Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives notice of
and justification for the change.
This Federal Register Notice serves as a public notification of how
VA will comply with the requirements of this law:
(1) VA will post policy and guidance changes covered by this law
including justification to a publicly facing website located at
<a href="http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/policy-change-notice.asp">www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/policy-change-notice.asp</a>.
(2) VA will notify the statutorily mandated stakeholders, students,
educational institutions, and the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of
the Senate and House of Representatives, that a policy or guidance
change covered by this law has been posted on the aforementioned
website via previously established routes, such as email and include a
brief summary of the change.
(3) VA will wait at least 90 days after notification of any changes
to policy or guidance covered by section 213 of the ``Senator Elizabeth
Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvements Act''
to implement the specified change.
What is a change in policy or guidance?
VA will make 90-day notice and justification available to students,
educational institutions, and the
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Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of
Representatives, guidance that meets the following criteria:
(1) It does not already exist in regulation, policy, procedure, or
other form of guidance,
(2) It sets forth official VA position on a statutory, regulatory,
or technical issue, and
(3) It exercises VA's discretionary policy and decision-making
authority to ``fill-in a gap'' of statutory language, or
(4) It directly impacts students or schools.
(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501; 38 U.S.C. 3699D.)
Signing Authority
Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved and
signed this document on June 25, 2025, and authorized the undersigned
to sign and submit the document to the Office of the Federal Register
for publication electronically as an official document of the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Taylor N. Mattson,
Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2025-12004 Filed 6-27-25; 8:45 am]
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