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PUBLIC LAW 93-508-DEC. 3, 1974

Sales or s a l e s management courses, disapproval.

Other d i s a p proved c o u r s e s. 38 USC 1690, 1695.

Refresher training. 38 USC 1671.

Ante,

p. 1579.

Ante, p. 1581. Veteran-student services.

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SEC. 203. Section 1673 of title 38, United States Code, is amended as follows: (1) by amending subsection (a)(2) to read as follows: "(2) any sales or sales management course which does not provide specialized training within a specific vocational field, or in any other course with a vocational objective, unless the eligible veteran or the institution offering such course submits justification showing that at least one-half of the persons who completed such course over the preceding two-year period, and who are not unavailable for employment, have been employed in the occupational category for which the course was designed to provide training (but in computing the number of persons who completed such course over any such two-year period, there shall not be included the number of persons who completed such course with assistance under this title while serving on active duty); or"; (2) by inserting in subsection (a)(3) "(or the advertising for which he finds contains significant avocational or recreational themes)" after "character"; and (3) by amending subsection (d) to read as follows: " (d) The Administrator shall not approve the enrollment of any eligible veteran, not already enrolled, in any course (other than one offered pursuant to subchapter V or subchapter VI of this chapter) which does not lead to a standard college degree and which is offered by a proprietary profit or proprietary nonprofit educational institution for any period during which the Administrator finds that more than 85 per centum of the students enrolled in the course are having all or part of their tuition, fees, or other charges paid to or for them by the educational institution or the Veterans' Administration under this title.". SEC. 204. Section 1682 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (d)(1) Notwithstanding the prohibition in section 1671 of this title prohibiting enrollment of an eligible veteran in a program of education in which such veteran has 'already qualified,' a veteran shall be allowed up to six months of educational assistance (or the equivalent thereof in part-time assistance) for the pursuit of refresher training to permit such veteran to update such veteran's knowledge and skills and to be instructed in the technological advances which have occurred in such veteran's field of employment during and since the period of such veteran's active military service. "(2) A veteran pureuing refresher training under this subsection shall be paid an educational assistance allowance based upon the rate prescribed in the table in subsection (a)(1) or in subsection (c)(2) of this section, whichever is applicable. "(3) The educational assistance allowance paid under the authority of this subsection shall be charged against the period of entitlement the veteran has earned pursuant to section 1661(a) of this title.". SEC. 205. Section 1685 of title 38, United States Code, is amended as follows: (1) by striking out in subsection (a) all of that portion of the second sentenee preceding "during a semester" and inserting in

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