Sec. 5. Department of Veterans Affairs provision of on-campus educational and vocational counseling for veterans
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Chapter 36 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 3697A the following new section: The Secretary shall provide educational and vocational counseling services for veterans at locations on the campuses of institutions of higher learning selected by the Secretary. Such counseling services shall be provided by employees of the Department who provide such services under section 3697A of this title. Such services shall include, when determined appropriate by such employees, personalized learning plans for each veteran that map a defined program of study based on the veteran's academic career goals.
To be selected by the Secretary under this section, an institution of higher learning shall provide an appropriate space on the campus of the institution where counseling services can be provided under this section. In selecting locations for the provision of counseling services under this section, the Secretary shall seek to select locations where the maximum number of veterans would have access to such services. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section and not less frequently than once each year thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the counseling services provided under this section.
Such report shall include, for the year covered by the report— the average ratio of counselors providing such services to veterans who received such services at each location where such services were provided; a description of such services provided; the recommendations of the Secretary for improving the provision of such services; a description of the training that the counselors providing such services received so that such counselors could effectively provide veterans with current labor market information and regional workforce trends; and such other matters as the Secretary determines appropriate. .
The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3697A the following new item: 3697B. On-campus educational and vocational counseling. .