Legislation tracker

Legislation

Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.

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Choosing a jurisdiction overrides the level. Stage is where the bill stands in its own jurisdiction's process. Direction is whether it expands or restricts benefits, recorded only where the reason can be read from the bill. Outcome is whether the instrument became law; catalog status is whether this catalog has been reconciled against it. None of this is legal advice, and a tracked item is a pointer to the official record rather than a substitute for reading it.

3 instruments in Federal. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.

A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.

Federal

Public Law 119-55 (H.R. 983) Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserves Tuition Fairness Act: adds chapter 1606 users to the federal in-state tuition rule

Catalog reconciledEnactedScope changed

Signed 2025-12-12Takes effect 2026-08-01

Introduced Done, 2025-02-05, step 1 of 6
In committee Done, 2025-02-05, step 2 of 6
Passed one chamber Done, 2025-04-07, step 3 of 6
Passed both chambers Done, 2025-11-20, step 4 of 6
Signed by the President Done, 2025-12-12, step 5 of 6
In effect Done, 2026-08-01, step 6 of 6

Expands benefits Adds Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve users under chapter 1606 to the veterans a public school must charge in-state tuition.

Signed December 12, 2025. Adds users of the Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve under 10 U.S.C. chapter 1606 to the covered individuals in 38 U.S.C. 3679(c), for academic periods beginning on or after August 1, 2026.

Sponsor

Touches 38 U.S.C. § 3679(c)

Catalog entries (26)

Official record

Federal

Public Law 118-159, division A, section 587 Rewrote the federal portability rule for the professional licences of service members and spouses who move on military orders

Catalog reconciledEnactedScope changed

Signed 2024-12-23

Introduced Done, 2023-07-27, step 1 of 6
In committee Done, 2023-07-27, step 2 of 6
Passed one chamber Done, 2024-02-05, step 3 of 6
Passed both chambers Done, 2024-12-18, step 4 of 6
Signed by the President Done, 2024-12-23, step 5 of 6
In effect Done, 2024-12-23, step 6 of 6

Expands benefits Requires a state to treat a service member or spouse on military orders as licensed there on the strength of a licence held elsewhere.

Amended 50 U.S.C. 4025a generally, effective December 23, 2024. A service member or spouse who relocates on military orders and holds a licence in good standing elsewhere has it treated as valid for its scope of practice in the new state on application with the orders, a marriage certificate for a spouse and a notarized affidavit; a board that cannot act within 30 days may issue a temporary licence with the same rights. Licences held under an interstate compact follow the compact. State military spouse licensing entries that describe only the state procedure understate what a family on orders is owed. Veterans are outside the section.

Sponsor

Touches 50 U.S.C. § 4025a

Catalog entries (18)

Official record

Federal

Public Law 116-315, section 1005 Removed the three-year window after discharge from the federal in-state tuition rule

Catalog reconciledEnactedScope changed

Signed 2021-01-05Takes effect 2021-08-01

Introduced Done, 2020-06-04, step 1 of 6
In committee Done, 2020-06-04, step 2 of 6
Passed one chamber Done, 2020-09-23, step 3 of 6
Passed both chambers Done, 2020-12-16, step 4 of 6
Signed by the President Done, 2021-01-05, step 5 of 6
In effect Done, 2021-08-01, step 6 of 6

Expands benefits Removed the three-year window after discharge from the rule that public schools charge covered veterans in-state tuition.

Struck "less than three years before the date of enrollment in the course concerned" from 38 U.S.C. 3679(c)(2)(A), for terms beginning on or after August 1, 2021. A veteran with ninety days of active service using a covered VA education benefit and living in the state must be charged the resident rate at a public institution however long ago the discharge was. State guides and at least one catalog entry still described the old window.

Sponsor

Touches 38 U.S.C. § 3679(c)

Catalog entries (26)

Official record

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