This bill updates federal rules for how the Veterans Affairs Department provides career and educational counseling services to veterans on college campuses. The legislation changes the qualifications for VA counselors by requiring them to hold at least a bachelor's degree in a relevant field, rather than simply being VA employees. The bill also allows VA counselors to work at multiple campuses simultaneously and caps the number of individual veterans any single counselor can serve at 25 at one time. The legislation affects veterans pursuing higher education and the VA employees who support them. The bill does not specify new federal funding or implementation timelines beyond the requirement to update existing counseling program rules.
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