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United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1978
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States continue to maintain diplomatic relations with the Republic of China and continue to maintain unchanged its Mutual Defense Treaty with such country.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1978
Provides that remarriage of a surviving spouse of a veteran after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1978
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 13635 (Department of Defense appropriations).
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1978
Department of Defense Appropriation Act - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1979 to each of the armed forces for pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel, and expenses of temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations for military personnel on active duty. Appropriates specified amounts to each Reserve component of the armed forces for personnel costs. Title II: Retired Military Personnel - Appropriates specified sums for retired and retainer pay for retired military personnel. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates specified sums for: (1) operation and maintenance expenses for each of the armed forces and their reserve components and for the defense agencies; (2) expenses of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practics; (3) the payment of claims against the Department of Defense; (4) emergency and extraordinary expenses arising in the Department; (5) salaries and expenses of the Court of Military Appeals; and (6) maintenance of budgeted levels of military personnel, operation or maintenance expenses disrupted by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. Title IV: Procurement - Appropriates specifed sums to the various military departments and the defense agencies for the procurement of weapons and defense articles. Title V: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates specified sums to each of the armed forces and to the defense agencies for research, development, test and evaluation purposes. Title VI: Special Foreign Currency Program - Appropriates a specified sum for payment in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States for expenses in carrying out programs of the Department of Defense. Title VII: Working Capital Funds - Appropriates specified funds for the stock funds of the Army and Air Force. Title VIII: General Provisions - Sets forth the activities for which funds may not be used under this Act. Sets forth limitations on the use of such appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Defense to assist small and minority-owned businesses to participate equitably in the furnishing of commodities and services financed with funds appropriated under this Act. Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act for the purchase of specified goods in amounts over $10,000 unless such goods are produced in the United States. Title IX: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for expenses of the Intelligence Community Staff, and for payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund in order to maintain a proper funding level for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1978
Directs the Secretary of Defense to rescind that portion of the Department of Defense directive which permits deserters from military service to receive in absentia discharges.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1978
Directs the Secretary of Defense, in computing incentive pay for medical officers of the uniformed services, to prescribe a system through which variable incentive pay may be reduced or adjusted to reflect amounts the Federal Government has paid to, or benefits received by, medical officers prior to the commencement of their active duty.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1978
Designates the Veterans' Administration hospital in Columbia, South Carolina, as the "Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Hospital."
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1978
Provides that remarriage of a surviving spouse of a veteran after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1978
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to prohibit the shipment of certain classified information or material on vessels of Communist countries.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1978
Amends the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 to provide for a lump sum payment of National Service Life Insurance benefits for certain members of the Armed Forces killed in action between April 21, 1942, and December 31, 1942.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1978
Authorizes the President to award a medal of honor posthumously to William James Tsakanikas for his actions during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1978
(Reported to House from the Committee on Armed Services with amendment, H. Rept. 95-1380) Authorizes the Governor of the State of Wyoming to exhibit the nameplate, ship's bell, and silver service of the United States Ship Wyoming without restriction as to the place of such exhibition (present law limits the use to the University of Wyoming).
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1978
Veterans' Geriatrics and Gerontological Health Services Act - Establishes the Office of Assistant Chief Medical Director for Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Extended Care within the Office of the Chief Medical Director in the Veterans' Administration. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to designate 20 Veterans' Administration hospitals as Geriatrics centers. Establishes a Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Extended Care Task Force within the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1978
Directs the Secretary of Defense to rescind that portion of the Department of Defense directive which permits deserters from military service to receive in absentia discharges.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1978
Provides that remarriage of a surviving spouse of a veteran after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1978
Provides that remarriage of a surviving spouse of a veteran after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Blind Veterans Disability Housing Act - Removes the requirement that blind veterans also be unable to use one of their legs in order to be eligible for special housing for disabled veterans' assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Directs the Secretary of Defense to rescind that portion of the Department of Defense directive which permits deserters from military service to receive in absentia discharges.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1978
Provides that persons who died while on active military duty are to be considered veterans for the purpose of administering certain medical benefits to their widows or surviving children.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Veterans' Geriatrics and Gerontological Health Services Act - Establishes the Office of Assistant Chief Medical Director for Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Extended Care within the Office of the Chief Medical Director in the Veterans' Administration. Directs the Administration of Veterans' Affairs to designate 20 Veterans' Administration hospitals as geriatrics centers. Establishes a Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Extended Care Task Force within the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Amends the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 to provide for a lump sum payment of National Service Life Insurance benefits for certain members of the Armed Forces killed in action between April 21, 1942, and December 31, 1942.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1978
Military Health Care System Reform Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to appoint regional civilian military health care administrators to coordinate budgeting, planning, and the allocation of health care resources. Provides for the enrollment of active duty personnel, former members of the military, and military dependents in the military health care system for the provision of medical and dental care. States that enrolled persons shall not be denied or limited in the care provided by reason of the capability of the medical or dental staffs of major military helath care facilities. Provides for the supply of identification cards to enrolled persons. Requires major military health care facilities to establish programs to provide services to enrolled persons. Establishes budgeting requirements for such programs. Directs the Secretary of Defense to take steps to maximize training and use of physician assistance, nurse practitioners, and similar practioners at military health care facilities. Authorizes private physicians to provide medical and dental care at such facilities. Prescribes procedures for processing contract claims for services by private physicians. Entitles military medical personnel to a special performance incentive payment if fiscal year facility expenses are below budgeted expenditures. Prescribes performance standards to be used in determining the amount of such special pay. Requires the Secretary to provide for recovery of payments from health care insurers, employers, or other entities contractually or legally obligated to make payment for the provision of such care to enrolled individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Revises the faculty structure of the United States Military Academy. Abolishes the positions of registrar and director of music. Removes the requirement that there be a specified number of permanent professors for specified subjects.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to place an additional ten civilian positions in the Department of Defense in Executive Levels IV and V and to prescribe the duties of such positions.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1978
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, to the surviving spouse (who meets specified requirements), or, when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children (who meet specified requirements).
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Vietnam Veterans Employment and Training Delimiting Date Extension Act - Extends the delimiting period for veterans serving on active duty on or after August 5, 1964, and pursuing a program of apprenticeship, on-the-job, or cooperative training for up to three years.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Directs the Secretary of Defense to rescind that portion of the Department of Defense directive which permits deserters from military service to receive in absentia discharges.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1978
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of any veteran who was rated totally and permanently service-connected disabled for at least ten years as though the cause of death were service-connected.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Disapproves the Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 transmitted by the President to Congress which recommends creating a Federal Emergency Management Agency to consolidate Federal emergency activities.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Veterans' and Survivors' Pension Improvement Act - Title I: Amendments to Pension Program for Non-Service-Connected Disability or Death - Revises the list of specified categories of payments excluded from the determination of annual income for veterans' benefit payment purposes. Requires persons applying for veterans' non-service-connected disability pensions or certain survivors' benefits to report the income and estate of each spouse and child on account of whom added pension is applied for or received. Sets increased flat pension and aid-and-attendance allowance rates, reduced by the amount of a veterans annual income, and in specified instances, by the amount of a spouse's or child's income which is reasonably available to or for such veteran. Sets increased flat benefit rates, with similar reductions, for the surviving spouses and children of such veterans. Requires annual adjustments in such pension and benefit rates in conjunction with cost-of-living increases in social security benefits. Sets increased flat rate payments for specified pensions to certain war veterans reaching the age of 80. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions and Effective Dates - Sets the effective dates for provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1978
Designates the Veterans' Administration hospital in Columbia, South Carolina, as the "Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Hospital."
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1978
Uniformed Services Health Professionals Special Pay Act - Revises the special pay for medical officers, dental officers, veterinary officers, and optometry officers in the uniformed services on active duty.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1978
Directs the Secretary of Defense, in computing incentive pay for medical officers of the uniformed services, to prescribe a system through which variable incentive pay may be reduced or adjusted to reflect amounts the Federal Government has paid to, or benefits received by, medical officers prior to the commencement of their active duty.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1978
Repeals the compensation for members of the Naval Research Advisory Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1978
Supplemental Military Construction Authorization Act - Authorizes supplemental appropriations for various military construction projects and for military family housing.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
Disapproves the Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 transmitted by the President to Congress which recommends creating a Federal Emergency Management Agency to consolidate Federal emergency activities.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1978
Total Force Act - Title I: Amendments to Title 10, United States Code - Revises the structure and purpose of the Reserve components of the armed forces. Declares that it is the intent of Congress that the Reserves shall be an equal element in a partnership with the active components of the armed forces. Requires the Chiefs of Reserve, and Chief, National Guard Bureau to establish a career program for personnel whom they designate as being essential to properly support their component's mission. Stipulates that the paid drill strength of the Selected Reserves shall be authorized annually by Congress. Sets forth minimum authorized strength levels for each of the Reserves. Sets forth mandatory minimum training and active duty requirements for members of the Ready Reserve. Reduces the minimum enlistment period for reservists from six to three years. Requires that the Chiefs of Reserve and the Chief, National Guard Bureau be consulted and have input regarding procedures, policies, or actions which may affect their components. Increases the number of Selected Reserves which may be on active duty at any one time from 50,000 to 100,000. Requires the Secretaries of each of the military departments to make available to their reserve components, equipment, services, supplies, and facilities that are necessary to develop and maintain those components at a level comparable to their active component counterparts. Stipulates that exceptions to this requirement by the Secretary concerned may only be made with the prior approval of Congress. Prohibits the withdrawal of serviceable equipment from the Reserves or National Guard forces for transfer to the active forces for a period of more than 60 days without prior notification to Congress. Requires that such a withdrawal be accompanied by an impact statement from the Chief of Reserves or the Chief, National Guard Bureau. Abolishes the position of Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Establishes the positions of Assistant Secretary of the Army for Mobilization and Reserve Readiness who shall be responsible for supervising the Reserve and National Guard affairs of the Army and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower who shall have overall supervision of the manpower of the Army. Stipulates that the National Guard Bureau shall be the principal supervisory and general staff operating agency for National Guard affairs and shall be responsible for preserving the integrity of the unit and command structure of the Army and Air National Guards as separate and distinct parts of the structure of the Army and the Air Force. Stipulates that the Office of Army Reserve shall be the supervisory and operating agency for the Army Reserve and shall be responsible for maintaining the integrity of the Army Reserve as a separate and distinct part of the structure of the Army. Stipulates that Army reservists may be detailed to Army National Guard positions and that members of the Army National Guard may be assigned to Army Reserve positions. Increases the minimum size of the Marine Corps from three to four combat divisions and from three to four air wings. Stipulates that one combat division and one air wing shall be Reserve. Abolishes the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Establishes the positions of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Mobilization and Reserve Readiness to supervise the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower to supervise manpower within the Navy. Establishes an Office of Naval Reserve within the executive part of the Department of the Navy which shall be the principal supervisory and operating agency for the Naval Reserve and which shall be responsible for maintaining the integrity of the Naval Reserve as a separate and distinct part of the Navy. Establishes an Office of Marine Corps Reserve within the Navy which shall be the principal supervisory and operating agency for the Marine Corps Reserve and which shall be responsible for maintaining the integrity of the Marine Corps Reserve as a separate and distinct part of the Marine Corps. Abolishes the Naval Reserve Policy Board and the Marine Corps Reserve Policy Board and establishes the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Forces Policy Committee which shall review and comment on major policy matters directly affecting the reserve components of the Navy and Marine Corps. Establishes a Subcommittee on Naval Reserve Policy and a Subcommittee on Marine Corps Reserve Policy. Stipulates that where a matter solely affects either the Marine Corps Reserve or the Naval Reserve only the appropriate subcommittee may consider the matter. Abolishes the position of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and establishes the positions of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Mobilization and Reserve Readiness who shall supervise the Reserve and National Guard affairs of the department. Stipulates that the Office of Air Force Reserve shall be the principal supervisory and operating agency for the Air Force Reserve and shall be responsible for preserving the integrity of the Air Force Reserve as a separate and distinct part of the Air Force. Stipulates that the Chiefs of the Reserves shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall hold office for four years. Title II: Amendments to Title 14, United States Code - Establishes within the Department of Transportation an Office of Coast Guard Reserve which shall be the principal supervisory and operating agency for the Coast Guard Reserve and which shall be responsible for maintaining the integrity of the Coast Guard Reserve as a separate and distinct part of the Coast Guard. Stipulates that the Chief, Coast Guard Reserve shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall hold office for four years. Establishes a Coast Guard Reserve Forces Policy Committee which shall review and comment upon major policy matters directly affecting the reserve components of the Coast Guard. Title III: Amendments to Title 32, United States Code - Requires that, before federal benefits may be denied a State's National Guard for failing to comply with or enforce regulations or requirements contained in title 32, USC (National Guard), the Secretary concerned shall report such proposed action to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. Stipulates that such proposed action shall take effect unless either committee reports a resolution rejecting such proposed action within 30 days of continuous session. Stipulates that such proposed action shall take effect unless such resolution is adopted by the House of Representatives or the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1978
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide emergency medical services to specified veterans attending national conventions of certain veterans organizations recognized by the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to contract with such organizations to furnish reimbursable emergency medical services at such conventions to non-veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1978
Uniformed Services Health Professionals Special Pay Act - Revises the special pay for medical officers, dental officers, veterinary officers, and optometry officers in the uniformed services on active duty.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1978
Stipulates that a retired member of the uniformed services who, in lieu of receiving retired pay, is receiving compensation from the Veterans' Administration for a service-connected disability rated as total and who is participating in the Survivor Benefit Plan shall not be required to make payments into the Treasury for such Plan.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 12927 (Military construction funding).
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Expresses the sense of the House that the exchange of the Panama Canal Treaty instruments of ratification should not occur earlier than March 31, 1979, unless implementing legislation has been enacted prior to such exchange. Requires specific Congressional authorization by an Act of Congress prior to any conveyance, relinquishment, or disposition of U.S. property in the Panama Canal Zone to any foreign government.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board to establish minimum rates, fares, and charges for air services provided to the Department of Defense by air carriers through contracts of more than 30 days' duration.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1978
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of any veteran who was rated totally and permanently service-connected disabled for at least ten years as though the cause of death were service-connected.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1978
Includes chiropractic care in the health care which may be provided to members and former members of the armed forces and their dependents in facilities of the uniformed services and under the Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS).
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1978
Entitles certain unremarried former spouses of members of the uniformed services to medical and dental benefits under the Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS).
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1978
Repeals the requirement that specified male line officers in the Navy serve two years at sea or foreign service to be eligible for promotion to the grade of lieutenant commander.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1978
Extends the maximum age for eligibility for the financial assistance program of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps by the period of time that a student previously served on active duty in the armed forces, not to exceed four years.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1978
Entitles former spouses of members of the armed forces who were married to the member for at least ten years to a portion of that member's retired or retainer pay. Entitles such former spouses to a portion of the annuity of the surviving spouse of such member. Stipulates that such a member may not elect not to provide an annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan without the consent of the member's spouse and any former spouses.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1978
Entitles former spouses of members of the armed forces who were married to the member for at least ten years to a portion of that member's retired or retainer pay. Entitles such former spouses to a portion of the annuity of the surviving spouse of such member. Stipulates that such a member may not elect not to provide an annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan without the consent of the member's spouse and any former spouses.