ELECTION OF CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF COMMENCEMENTOF PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY FOR SURVIVORS' AND DEPENDENTS’ EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE.

SEC. 112. ELECTION OF CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF COMMENCEMENTOF PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY FOR SURVIVORS' AND DEPENDENTS’ EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE. Section 3512(a)(3) is amended by striking “8 years after,” and all that follows through the end and inserting “8 years after the date that is elected by that person to be the beginning date of entitlement under section 3511 of this title or subchapter V of this chapter if— “(A) the Secretary approves that beginning date; “(B) the eligible person makes that election after the person’s eighteenth birthday but before the person’s twenty-sixth birthday; and “(C) that beginning date— “(i) in the case of a person whose eligibility is based on a parent who has a service-connected total disability permanent in nature, is between the dates described in subsection (d); and “(ii) in the case of a person whose eligibility is based on the death of a parent, is between— “(I) the date of the parent’s death; and 114 STAT. 1832 “(II) the date of the Secretary’s decision that the death was service-connected;”.