A bill introduced Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard would amend a provision in the Post 9/11 GI Bill that is preventing some injured military reservists from accessing complete educational benefits.

The Chris Kotch VA Education Access Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, is named for an Army reservist who was seriously injured while serving in Iraq.

Though he was transported back to the states for treatment at Walter Reed Hospital, Kotch wasn’t officially discharged, but was instead classified as simply having finished his active duty assignment, even though he was medically retired due to his injuries. That wording technicality made him eligible for only a portion of the education benefits he should be eligible for under the law.

Gabbard’s proposal would ensure that any service member medically separated or medically retired would be elgibile for full benefits and would be retroactive to 2009, the year the Post 9/11 GI Bill was enacted.

“Too often, our service members have to fight through bureaucratic red tape to get the benefits they have rightfully earned and deserve,” said Gabbard in a news release.

“The Post 9-11 GI Bill offers these service-injured veterans a full education benefit. But they are being denied on a technicality,” said Pingree, who introduced a similar version of the bill in the 113th Congress. “We aren’t living up to our promises to these veterans and the law needs to be fixed.”