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Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017
This bill revises education and related benefits provided to veterans, service members, dependents, and survivors.
The bill amends the Post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance program to:
remove certain time restrictions on program use;
The bill authorizes the Edith Nurse Rogers STEM Scholarship to help veterans complete STEM degrees.
The Yellow Ribbon program is extended to Fry Scholarship recipients (surviving dependents of service members who died on active duty) and certain Purple Heart recipients. (The Yellow Ribbon program helps veterans pay for higher education tuition and fee costs not covered by the Post-9/11 program.)
The bill: (1) extends the Advisory Committee on Education, (2) increases survivors' and dependents' educational assistance, and (3) extends funding for state educational program approving agencies.
The bill provides statutory authority for the VetSuccess on Campus program, which provides veterans with on-campus educational and vocational counseling.
The Department of Veterans Affairs shall make a new determination regarding each denied veteran's claim for disability compensation in connection with full-body exposure to mustard gas or Lewisite at specified locations during World War II and resolve reasonable doubt in favor of the veteran.
For more detailed information, see Congressional Research Service Report R45205, Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-48).
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 3218 as public Law on Aug 16, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Jul 24, 2017
Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
405 Yea 0 Nay 28 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 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. 3218 and vote against it. 57 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 3218 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
39 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.