Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Amy Klobuchar
Introduced
Summary
Reorders eligibility and lowers numeric thresholds for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship. It would add new priority categories for certain veterans and STEM majors, and require scholarship use only after other chapter education benefits are exhausted.
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- Veterans who have used the most months of their chapter educational assistance would receive higher priority for the STEM scholarship. This directs awards toward beneficiaries with longer prior use of education benefits.
- Individuals pursuing post-secondary programs in fields listed under the scholarship's STEM categories would be prioritized. That change favors students who declare eligible STEM majors.
- The bill reduces two numeric thresholds in the eligibility rules by replacing 60 with 45 and 90 with 67.5. It also adds a rule that the STEM benefit may only be used after exhausting all other educational assistance under the chapter.
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Student veteran STEM scholarship changes
If enacted, this bill would change rules for the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship for veterans who are students. It would lower two numeric thresholds in the law from 60 to 45 and from 90 to 67.5. It would add two award priorities: people who have used the most months of Chapter 38 education assistance, and people in post‑secondary programs who declared majors in the listed STEM fields. It would also require that you use all other Chapter 38 education benefits before using this STEM scholarship. These changes would take effect upon enactment.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
IN • R
Sponsored 10/23/2025
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