Military Learning for Credit Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced
Summary
Lets veterans use their education benefits to pay for certain credit-earning exams and portfolio assessments. It would allow eligible individuals to apply veterans educational assistance toward tests and institutional assessments that can convert military learning into college credit.
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- Veterans and eligible students would be able to use benefits available under Chapters 30, 32, 33, 34, and 35 of Title 38 or other laws tied to military service to cover the cost of covered examinations and assessments. Payment for each exam or assessment would be capped at the lesser of the actual charge or $500.
- Colleges and other institutions of higher learning could count institutional assessments of a portfolio or written narrative documenting prior military training as covered assessments that may earn credit.
- Covered exams include DSST (DANTES Subject Standardized Test), CLEP (College Level Examination Program), the National Career Readiness Certificate, and other similar tests the Secretary of Veterans Affairs designates. The law would compute a charge to a veteran’s entitlement by dividing the capped exam cost by the veteran’s monthly benefit rate, and that charge would not affect Department of Defense Tuition Assistance entitlement.
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Use VA education benefits for exams
If enacted, you would be able to use veterans educational assistance to pay for certain exams and assessments that give college credit for approved degree programs. Covered tests would include DSST, CLEP, the National Career Readiness Certificate, other similar exams the VA designates, and school portfolio assessments of military training. The VA could pay up to the exam charge or $500 per exam, whichever is less. The VA would charge months of your benefit by dividing that capped amount by your monthly VA education rate. Using VA benefits here would not reduce Department of Defense tuition assistance.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
DE • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
IA • R
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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