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S. 3040Senate119th Congress (2025-2027)In Committee

Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act of 2025

Sponsored by Amy KlobucharSen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Introduced October 23, 2025

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The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act of 2025 updates the rules for the veteran STEM scholarship. It changes some of the numeric thresholds for eligibility, adds new priority categories that favor veterans who have used the most of their education benefits and those studying STEM fields, and makes the scholarship payable only after a veteran has exhausted other education assistance they qualify for.

Key Provisions

  • Removes an existing eligibility paragraph and renumbers the remaining ones, changing two numeric thresholds from 60 to 45 and from 90 to 67.5 (likely adjusting the amount of assistance required).
  • Adds two new eligibility criteria: (A) veterans who have used the greatest number of months of their education benefits, and (B) veterans pursuing a post‑secondary program with a declared STEM major.
  • Requires that a scholarship recipient can only receive the benefit after they have first used all of the education assistance they are otherwise entitled to under the veterans’ education program.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Veterans' Affairs Committee

October 23, 2025

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Veterans' Affairs Committee

October 23, 2025

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Introduced in SenateIssued October 23, 2025

II

119th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 3040

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

October 23, 2025

Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Banks) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

A BILL

To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the requirements of the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, and for other purposes.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act of 2025.

2.

Modifications to Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship

Section 3320 of title 38, United States Code, is amended—

(1)

in subsection (b)—

(A)

by striking paragraph (2);

(B)

by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and

(C)

in paragraph (3), as so redesignated, in subparagraph (A)(ii)—

(i)

by striking 60 and inserting 45; and

(ii)

by striking 90 and inserting 67.5;

(2)

in subsection (c)(1)—

(A)

by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and

(B)

by inserting before subparagraph (C), as so redesignated, the following new subparagraphs:

(A)

Individuals who have used the most number of months of the educational assistance to which they are entitled under this chapter.

(B)

Individuals who are using their entitlement under this chapter to pursue a program of post-secondary education and who have declared a major in a field referred to in subsection (b)(3)(A)(i).

; and

(3)

in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

(5)

An individual who receives a benefit under this section may only use such benefit after the individual has used all of the educational assistance to which the individual is entitled under this chapter.

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