Vermont / State / 2025-2026 Session
2025 Act 72, § 11 Opened the National Guard tuition benefit to graduate degrees and to members who already hold a bachelor’s degree
Amended 16 V.S.A. 2857 so that an eligible enrollment reaches a program leading to a graduate degree, and repealed subdivision (c)(1)(D), which had excluded any member who had previously earned an undergraduate bachelor’s degree. A Guard member with a bachelor’s degree was shut out before June 27, 2025 and can now use the benefit for a master’s. Accounts describing the program as undergraduate-only, including the federal Army benefits library entry for Vermont, describe the earlier version.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done, House, as a committee bill
- In committee Done, House Education, then Senate Education and Appropriations
- Passed one chamber Done, House
- Passed both chambers Done, House concurred in the Senate proposal of amendment
- Signed by the governor Done,
- In effect Done,
Sponsors
- House Committee on Education
What it touches
- 16 V.S.A. § 2857(c)(1)(C)
- 16 V.S.A. § 2857(c)(1)(D)
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