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Bill· HRH.R. 3267 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973

Provides that, in determining the annual income of any individual for veterans' pension and compensation purposes, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall disregard any increase in benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) brought about by Public Law 92-336 to which a veteran might be entitled, or any subsequent cost-of-living increase in such benefits occurring pursuant to the Social Security Act. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 415(g)(4), 503(d))

Bill· SS. 608 (93rd)referred

A bill to authorize members of the Armed Forces and Federal employees who were in a missing status for any period during the Vietnam conflict to receive double credit for such period for retirement purposes, to provide for the payment of certain pay and allowances for such period.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Authorizes members of the Armed Forces and Federal employees who were in a missing status for any period during the Vietnam conflict to receive double credit for such period for retirement purposes. Provides for the payment of pay and allowances for such period to individuals in an amount equal to that which they would have received if they has been stationed during such period in Saigon, South Vietnames and had no Government quarters furnished and no Government messing facilities available. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1405(b), 559; 5 U.S.C. 8332(l), 5562(e))

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 48 (93rd)referred

A resolution relating to a comprehensive interpretation for the Geneva protocol.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Declares that the Senate supports a broad interpretation of the Geneva protocol and in so doing it recommends that the United States be willing, on the basis of reciprocity, to refrain from the use in war of all toxic chemical weapons whether directed against man, animals, or plants.

Bill· HRH.R. 3173 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code so as to entitle veterans of World War I and their widows and children to pension on the same basis as veterans of the Spanish-American War and their widows and children, respectively.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay to each veteran of World War I who meets service requirements a specified pension. Provides for pension payments to the widow, or to the children of World War I veterans if there is no widow. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 512, 536, 537)

Bill· HRH.R. 3134 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans pension or compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Provides that, in determining the annual income of any individual for veterans' pension and compensation purposes, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall disregard any increase in benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) brought about by Public Law 92-336 to which a veteran might be entitled, or any subsequent cost-of-living increase in such benefits occurring pursuant to the Social Security Act. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 415(g)(4), 503(d))

Bill· HRH.R. 3157 (93rd)referred

National Overseas Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

National Overseas Education Act - Creates within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Overseas Education Board consisting of 8 members having responsibility for the elementary and secondary eduction of overseas dependents of military and civilian personnel. Gives the Board powers to carry out the provisions of this act. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 3141 (93rd)referred

A bill to transfer the Coast Guard to the Department of Defense.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Transfers the Coast Guard to the Department of Defense, and vests in the Secretary of Defense all functions, powers, and duties of the Secretary of Transportation and of other officers and offices of the Department of Transportation relating to the Coast Guard. Provides that the Coast Guard shall operate as a part of the Navy in time of war or when the President shall so direct. States that a member of the Coast Guard on active duty may be assigned to any position in the Department of Defense for which members of the Armed Forces are otherwise eligible. Provides that so much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended appropriations available in connection with the functions transferred by this Act shall be transferred to the Department of Defense.

Bill· HRH.R. 3176 (93rd)referred

Uniformed Services Retirement Pay Equalization Act

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Uniformed Services Retirement Pay Equalization Act - Provides that the retired pay of each retired officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps shall be computed on the basis of rates of pay provided by law at the time of his retirement or subsequently enacted for officers on the active list. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 6149)

Bill· HRH.R. 3125 (93rd)referred

A bill to deem certain disabilities incurred pursuant to State National Guard service during World War I to be service connected for purposes of chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code (relating to compensation for service-connected disabilities).

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Deems disabilities involving the loss of one or more limbs by an individual and incurred pursuant to State National Guard service during World War I to be service-connected for purposes of veterans compensation for service-connected disabilities. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make specified lump-sum payments to such individuals.

Bill· HRH.R. 3160 (93rd)referred

A bill to restore the wartime recognition of Filipino veterans of World War II who fought as members of the Commonwealth Army but whose wartime service records were subsequently stricken from official U.S. Army records and to entitle them to those benefits, rights, and privileges which result from such recognition; and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to classify as special immigrants alien veterans who served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces, together with their spouses and children.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Restores the wartime recognition of specified Filipino veterans of World War II. Entitles such veterans to those veterans benefits, rights, and priviliges which result from such recognition.

Bill· HRH.R. 3111 (93rd)referred

A bill to increase Servicemen's Group Life Insurance coverage to a maximum of $50,000, to liberalize coverage under the GI life insurance programs.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Increases the amount of coverage under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance plan: (1) from $15,000 to $50,000 automatic insurance for any member of the uniformed service on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training scheduled in advance by competent authority; (2) from $10,000 and $5,000 to $25,000 and $10,000 respectively, the amount of insurance coverage servicemen may elect in lieu of (1) above; and (3) from $15,000 and $10,000 to $50,000 and $25,000 respectively, the amount of insurance that may be elected subsequent to an initial waiver of all insurance. Provides that the United States shall bear all cost attributable to the increase in the amount of insurance coverage made available by reason of this Act. Provides that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall pay to any individual who after September 28, 1965, and before the effective date of this Act was a beneficiary of a Servicemen's Group Life Insurance policy: (1) $35,000 if the individual received, or was entitled to, the amount of $10,000 as such beneficiary; or (2) the amount of $5,000 if the individual received, or was entitled to, the amount of $5,000 as such beneficiary. Provides that each policy of United States Government Life Insurance or National Service Life Insurance in force on the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have been issued in the amount of $50,000. Provides that the total expense for such increase shall be borne by the United States. Provides that the Administrator shall pay to any individual who after June 27, 1950, and before the date of the enactment of this Act was a beneficiary of a United States Government Life Insurance or National Service Life Insurance policy an amount which shall be equal to $50,000 less the amount which such individual received, or was entitled to, as such beneficiary. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 3046 (93rd)referred

A bill to make rules governing the use of the Armed Forces of the United States in the absence of a declaration of war by the Congress of the United States or of a military attack upon the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Provides that in the absence of a declaration of war by the Congress or of a military attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, the Armed Forces of the United States shall not be committed to combat or introduced into a situation where combat is imminent or likely at any place outside of the United States, its territories and possession, without prior notice to and specific prior authorization by the Congress, except in case of emergency or necessity, the existence of which emergency or necessity is to be determined by the President of the United States. Provides that whenever, in the absence of a declaration of war by the Congress or of a military attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, the President of the United States nevertheless determines that an emergency or necessity exists which justifies such action, and shall, by consequence, commit the Armed Forces of the United States to combat or shall introduce them into a situation where combat is imminent or likely at any place outside of the United States, its territories or possessions, without prior notice to and authorization by the Congress, the President shall report such action to the Congress in writing, as expeditiously as possible and, in all events, within twenty-four hours from and after the taking of such action. States that not later than ninety days after the receipt of the report of the President the Congress by the enactment with such period of a bill or resolution appropriate to the purpose, shall either approve, ratify, confirm, and authorize the continuation of the action taken by the President and reported to the Congress, or shall disapprove and require the discontinuance of the same.

Bill· HRH.R. 3067 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to include as creditable service for purposes of civil service retirement certain periods of imprisonment of members of the Armed Forces and of civilian employees by hostile foreign forces, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Includes as creditable service for purposes of civil service retirement those periods of imprisonment and missing in action status of members of the Armed Forces and of civilian employees where engaged in actions against hostile foreign forces. (Adds 5 U.S.C. 8332 (l))

Bill· HRH.R. 3018 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that hypertension developing a 10-percent or more degree of disability within 2 years after separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service connected.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Provides that a veteran's hypertension developing a 10 percent or more degree of disability within two years after separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service-connected for purposes of disability compensation. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 312(6))

Bill· HRH.R. 3017 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 410(a) of title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to certain survivors of deceased veterans who were rated 100 percentum disabled by reason of service-connected disabilities for 20 or more years.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Provides for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the widow, children, and parents of deceased veterans who were rated 100 percent disabled by reason of service-connected disabilities for twenty or more years. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 410(a))

Bill· HRH.R. 3048 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to permit certain active duty for training to be counted as active duty for purposes of entitlement to educational benefits under chapter 34 of such title.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Permits periods of less than six months spent on active duty for training to be counted as active duty for purpose of entitlement to educational benefits for veterans who served in the Reserves or National Guard of any State after August 4, 1964. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1661(a)(2))

Bill· HRH.R. 2982 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis developing a 10 percent or more degree of disability within 7 years after separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service connected.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Provides that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis developing a 10 percent or more degree of disability within seven years after a veteran's separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service-connected. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 312 (4))

Bill· HRH.R. 2974 (93rd)referred

National Cemeteries Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

National Cemeteries Act - Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to plan and maintain a system of national cemeteries, and to establish a program of existing cemeteries and creation of additional cemeteries. Provides that each grave in each national cemetery shall be marked with a small headstone bearing the name of the person buried in such grave. Specifies the persons to be buried in national cemeteries, including: (1) any veteran who served on active duty (other than for training) and whose last such service terminated honorably; (2) any member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces, and any member of the Army National Guard, whose death occurs under honorable conditions while he is on active duty, authorized inactive duty training, or in a hospital at the expense of the United States. (3) any member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps of the Army, Navy, or Air Force whose death occurs under honorable conditions while he is attending an authorized training camp or undergoing hospital treatment at the expense of the United States; (4) any citizen of the United States who served in the Armed Forces of any U.S. ally in a war in which the United States was engaged and whose last service terminated honorably; and (5) the wife, husband, surviving spouse, minor child, and unmarried adult child of any of the persons listed in paragraphs (1) through (4). States that no person who on the date of his death was a member of a Communist-elected organization shall be buried in any national cemetery. Provides that the Administrator shall set aside, when applicable, suitable plots in national cemeteries to honor the memory of members of the Armed Forces missing in action. Authorizes the Administrator to furnish, when requested, appropriate Government headstones or markers for the graves of: (1) soliders of the Union and Confederate Armies of the Civil War; (2) members of the Armed Forces dying in the service and veterans whose last service terminated honorably; (3) persons buried in cemeteries and national cemeteries; and (4) persons specified in provisions (2) and (3) in the above section on eligibility. Requires superintendents of national cemeteries to be selected from among trustworthy veterans with a service- connected disability. Authorizes the Administrator to acquire additional lands as needed and to convey approach roads to national cemeteries to State and local authorities. Prescribes a fine of between $25 and $100, or imprisonment of between 15 and 60 days, for defacing a national cemetery, and authorizes the superintendent to arrest a person engaged in committing such act. Authorizes to the Administrator to send annual recommendations to Congress with respect to the memorials to be erected, and the remains of deceased members of the Armed Forces to be entombed in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Transfers jurisdiction and responsibility for any cemetery under the jurisdiction of the Secretaries of the Interior and the Army to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 218, 951-58)

Bill· HRH.R. 2985 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 312 of title 38, United States Code, by providing a 2-year presumptive period of service connection for the psychoses which develop within 2 years from the date of separation from active service.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Provides that a psychosis developing a 10 percent degree of disability or more within two years after separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service connected. (Amends 38 USC 312)

Bill· HRH.R. 2981 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 312 of title 38, United States Code by providing a 3-year presumptive period of service connection for malignant tumors (cancer) which develops within 3 years from the date of separation from active service.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Provides a three-year presumptive period of service connection of malignant tumors of cancer which develops within three years from the date of a veteran's separation from active service. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 312 (6))

Bill· HRH.R. 3016 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to enable certain permanently and totally disabled veterans to receive concurrent payments of service-connected disability compensation and non-service-connected pension.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Enables permanently and totally disabled veterans with a service-connected disability of 10 percent or more, to receive concurrent payments of service-connected disability compensation and a non-service-connected pension. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 3104(d))

Bill· HRH.R. 2977 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend subsection (b) (1) of section 415 of title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum annual income limitation governing payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to certain parents.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Increases the maximum annual income limitation governing payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the parent of a deceased veteran to $5,000, if the parent is an unremarried widow with a child. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4l5 (b) (1))

Bill· HRH.R. 2965 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to restore the system of recomputation of retired pay for certain members and former members of the Armed forces.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Provides that the retired pay of any member or former member of the Armed Forces who was on active duty or in an active status on or before May 31, 1958, shall be computed at current active duty pay rates and increased to reflect later changes in applicable pay rates.

Bill· HRH.R. 2975 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, with respect to the manner of determining annual income for pension purposes of certain persons who are entitled to annuities under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Disregards specified amounts received as an annunity, under the Railroad Retirements Act of 1937, for purposes of determining a veteran's annual income and pension eligibility. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 503 (b))

Bill· HRH.R. 2992 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to liberalize the provisions relating to payment of disability and death pension.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Increases payments in specified amounts to veterans under non-service-connected disability pension plans. Increases pension payments to widows of veterans who at the time of death were receiving compensation or retirement pay for a service-connected disability. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 521(b),(c); 541(b),(c))

Bill· HRH.R. 2980 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 110 of title 38, United States Code, to liberalize the standard for preservation of disability ratings.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Provides that a single break in the continuity of a veteran's total disability rating, for a period of less than one year, followed by restoration to the same or higher disability rating, shall not be considered as disrupting the running of the twenty-year period, for purposes of disability compensation. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 110)

Bill· HRH.R. 2976 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that certain veterans who were prisoners of war shall be deemed to have a service-connected disability of 50 percent.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973

Provides that veterans who were prisoners of war for more than 6 months during World War II or the Korean War shall be deemed to have a service-connected disability of 50 percent for purposes of entitlement to veterans' disability compensation.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 34 (93rd)passed

A resolution to provide for the arrangement and payment of expenses with respect to the attendance of Members of the Senate at the funeral of former President Lyndon B. Johnson.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973

Provides that the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate shall take such steps as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of Senate Resolution 24, 93d Congress, agreed to January 23, 1973, relating to the payment of expenses with respect to the attendance at the funeral of former President Lyndon B. Johnson. Provides that necessary expenses in carrying out such resolution shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate.

Bill· HRH.R. 2941 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide for cost-of-living increases in compensation, dependency, and indemnity compensation, and pension payments.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973

Provides for cost-of-living increases for veterans' compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation and pension payments equal to the rise in the consumer price index when the Administrator of Veteran's Affairs determines that the Consumer Price Index has increased by 3 percent or more.

Bill· HRH.R. 2918 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to permit veterans to determine how certain drugs and medicines will be supplied to them.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973

Provides that when a veteran is supplied with drugs from the Veteran's Administration, the Administrator shall permit such veteran to determine whether: (1) such drugs or medicines shall be supplied directly by the Administrator, (2) such veteran shall be reimbursed for such drugs or medicines which he obtains from a source approved by the Administrator, or (3) a source approved by the Administrator shall be reimbursed for supplying such drugs or medicines to such veterans, or such veteran will be supplied with such drugs or medicines by another method approved by the Administrator. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 620A)

Bill· HRH.R. 2914 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize increased benefits for veterans requiring regularly scheduled hemodialysis.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973

Entitles a veteran to monthly compensation of $616 if the veteran, as the result of service- connected disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands, or both feet, or of one hand and one foot, or is blind in both eyes, with 5/200 visual acuity or less, or is receiving regularly scheduled hemodialysis, or is permanently bedridden or so helpless as to be in need of regular aid and attendance. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314)

Bill· HRH.R. 2910 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend chapter 11, title 38, United States Code, to provide a statutory compensable rating of not less than 10 percent for any veteran who was a prisoner of war.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973

Provides that any veteran of the United States Armed Forces who has been held as a prisoner of war, or was detained by an enemy agent of the United States, shall be deemed to have suffered a permanent disability and entitled to a disability rating of not less than 10 percent following such service. (Adds 38U.S.C. 363).

Bill· HRH.R. 2929 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, in order to remove an inequity from the laws concerning medical care for dependents of members of the uniformed services.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973

Provides that when a member of the uniformed services dies while he is on active duty for a period of more than thirty days, his dependents who are receiving benefits for a moderate or severe mental handicap or a serious physical handicap shall continue to be eligible for such benefits until they pass their twenty-first birthday. (Amends 10 USC 1079(g))

Bill· HRH.R. 2906 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 3104 of title 38, United States Code, to permit certain service-connected disabled veterans who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either.

United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973

Permits service-connected disabled veterans who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 3104 (a))

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