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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)
Protecting Veterans' Educational Choice Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill requires Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) counselors who provide specified educational or vocational counseling services to provide a requesting veteran or member of the Armed Forces with information about the articulation agreements (agreements governing the transferability of credits toward meeting specific degree or program requirements) of each institution of higher learning in which the individual is interested.
The VA shall: (1) provide a veteran who is certified as eligible for VA educational assistance with information on education counseling services and articulation agreements, and (2) implement this bill within 90 days after its enactment.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5047 as passed House without amendment on Nov 30, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Nov 30, 2016
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Labor to provide information to veterans and members of the Armed Forces about articulation agreements between institutions of higher learning, and for other purposes
Passed · Two-thirds required
411 Yea 3 Nay 20 not voting
Crossed both parties 3 of 414 voting members broke with their own party: 3 Democrats.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
434 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 5047 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5047 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
3 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.