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United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1977
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H. R. 7933 (Defense Department appropriations).
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1977
Declares it the sense of Congress that United States ground forces not be withdrawn from South Korea until Congress has examined the effect of such withdrawal.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977
Guarantees automatically any loan to a qualified veteran for the purchase and installation, of solar heating and/or cooling in a dwelling which he owns and occupies. Authorizes the Veterans' Administration to make loans for such purposes in certain circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1977
Extends the special pay benefits for physicians and dentists in the uniformed services through fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1977
Department of Defense Appropriation Act - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1978 for pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on deposits, and travel expenses for members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, the reserve components of such armed forces; and the Army and Air National Guard. Title II: Retired Military Personnel - Makes appropriations for: (1) retired pay and retirement pay for military personnel on the retired lists of the various military departments and the reserves; (2) retainer pay for personnel of the Inactive Fleet Reserve; (3) the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan; and (4) the Survivor Benefit Plan. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Makes appropriations for operating and maintenance expenses for the various military departments, their reserve components, the Defense Agencies, and the Army and Air National Guard. Makes appropriations for the Army National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, for the payment of claims against the Department of Defense, for emergency expenses within the Department, and for the United States Court of Military Appeals. Title IV: Procurement - Appropriates specified sums to the Army for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other specified equipment. Appropriates specified sums to the Navy for weapons procurement, shipbuilding and ship conversion, and the procurement of other equipment. Appropriates specified amounts to the Marine Corps for weapons procurement and the procurement of other specified equipment. Makes appropriations to the Air Force for aircraft and missile procurement and the procurement of other specified equipment. Makes appropriations for the procurement of equipment by the defense agencies. Title V: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Makes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense Agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation purposes. Makes appropriations for the activities of the Director of Defense Test and Evaluation. Title VI: Special Foreign Currency Program - Makes appropriations for the payment in foreign currencies of expenses in carrying out Department of Defense programs. Title VII: Working Capital Funds - Appropriates specified sums for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Defense Agencies stock funds. Title VIII: General Provisions - Sets forth the activities for which funds may be used under this Act. Establishes limitations on the use of appropriations made available under this Act. Directs the Secretary of Defense to assist American small 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. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for research involving uninformed or nonvoluntary human beings. 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 certain funding level for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1977
Entitles individuals in the armed forces who are entitled to retired or retainer pay and who did not elect to participate in the survivor benefit plan to do so within 270 days after the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1977
Provides to veterans with a total service-connected disability the right to travel on a space-available basis on unscheduled military flights within the continental United States and on scheduled overseas flights operated by the Military Airlift Command.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1977
Denies veterans' retroactively to any individual whose entitlement is based on an upgraded discharge under specified revised standards not made applicable to all persons administratively discharged or released from active military service under less than honorable conditions. Requires the board of review to make a separate determination whether an upgraded individual would have been awarded an upgraded discharge under discharge review standards made applicable to all persons administratively discharged under less than honorable conditions. Entitles to veterans' benefits any individual whose upgraded discharge would have been awarded under previous unrevised review standards. Denies, as of the date of enactment, benefits for any disability incurred or aggravated during a period of service from which a veteran was discharged by reason of a bad conduct discharge. States that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should not promulgate any new or revised regulations providing any unique or special advantage to veterans who have received upgraded discharges under revised standards, or otherwise make any special distinction between such veterans and other veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1977
Provides for payment of a supplemental tuition allowance to each qualified veteran upon application to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Limits such allowance to no more than $800, the first $400 of the tuition cost being paid by the veteran, the Administrator paying 80 percent of the next $1,000 for the school year. Requires assurances from the educational institution that the tuition charged the veteran is equivalent to that charged nonveteran students and that all fees are included in an itemization presented to the Administrator.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, or to the surviving spouse of each such veteran, or when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1977
Removes the present restrictions which prohibit enlisted members of the armed forces on active duty from engaging in a civilian pursuit or business or prohibit members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine bands from receiving, remuneration for furnishing music outside of a military base where such activities are in competition with local civilians.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1977
Prohibits the sale of any defense article classified as Prepositioned Material Configured to Unit Sets or as decrement stock (as defined in this Act). Prohibits, after September 30,1980, the sale of any defense article presently classified as War Reserve Stock, except that the President may sell 15 percent of the stock of such an article under specified conditions. Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a plan to specified committees of Congress for increasing the quantity of Prepositioned Material Configured to Unit Sets and War Reserve Stocks in Europe.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1977
Veterans Disability Compensation and Survivor Benefits Act -- Title I: Veterans Disability Compensation -- Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Title II: Survivors Dependency and Indemnity Compensation -- Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of disabled veterans. Title III: Clothing Allowance and Effective Date Provisions -- Increases the clothing allowance for disabled veterans who wear prosthetic appliances that tear clothes. Declares that the provisions of this Act shall become effective on October 1, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1977
Stipulates that a National Guard technician who: (1) has completed ten years of service in a position in which Guard membership was required; (2) is involuntarily separated from the Guard under honorable technicians; and (3) who continues to meet specified physical fitness standards shall not be required to be a member of the Guard as a condition of employment.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1977
Prohibits denial of employment (except by an employer with no more than ten employees) of any person because of any obligation as a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1977
Extends the special pay provisions for physicians and dentists in the uniformed services until September 30, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1977
Exempts courses which lead to a standard college degree from the "85-15" rule whereby the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is required to disapprove enrollment of any eligible veteran, not already enrolled, in any course offered by an educational institution where more than 85 percent of the students enrolled have their fees paid by either the Veterans' Administration or the institution itself. Limits application of the "85-15" rule to proprietary (that is, private) profit or proprietary nonprofit educational institutions. Grants the Administrator discretion to permit a veteran or an eligible person to continue a course of training, without mitigating circumstances for a reasonable length of time beyond the approved length for the course before progress will be considered unsatisfactory. Consolidates existing provisions of title 38 United States Code relating to the certification of courses required before educational assistance allowances will be paid to otherwise eligible veterans or eligible persons. Exempts from the required two-year minimum of operation prior to approval: (1) any course which is available only to active duty military personnel, civilian employees of the military departments, and dependents of such personnel and employees; (2) any course meeting general criteria of past compliance with regulations, specified academic standards, a 50-percent placement rate (if vocational), and recommendation by the appropriate State approving agency, if the Administrator determines such course should be approved; and (3) any course offered by a branch or extension of an approved institution if the course is identical to a course offered at the main campus of the institution. Prohibits, as of December 1, 1976, the execution of a power of attorney, by an educational assistance allowance payee, giving an attorney-in-fact authority to negotiate a benefit check.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1977
Stipulates that a National Guard technician who: (1) has completed ten years of service in a position in which Guard membership was required; (2) is involuntarily separated from the Guard under honorable technicians; and (3) who continues to meet specified physical fitness standards shall not be required to be a member of the Guard as a condition of employment.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, or to the surviving spouse of each such veteran, or when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1977
Veterans Judicial Review Act - Provides that the decisions of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration providing benefits for veterans and their dependents or survivors shall be subject to judicial review. Repeals the requirement that the Administrator determine and pay fees to agents or attorneys in allowed claims for monetary benefits. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 211; Repeals 38 U.S.C. 3404(c))
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977
Veterans Health Care Amendments Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish initial readjustment professional counseling (including a general mental and psychological assessment) for any veteran with readjustment problems who requests such aid within four years after his discharge or release from service, or within two years after enactment of this Act, whichever is later. Requires further mental health services on an outpatient basis if a physician employed by the Veterans' Administration determines on the basis of initial counseling that such services are necessary for the veteran's successful readjustment. Directs the Chief Medical Director to provide for the training of professional, paraprofessional, and lay personnel necessary to carry out such programs. Directs the Administrator to ensure that all potentially eligible veterans are advised of such potential eligibility. Authorizes the Administrator to provide a preventive health care program to ensure the best possible health care for veterans with service- connected disabilities. Directs the Administrator to provide for a health maintenance pilot program to demonstrate the medical advantages and cost-effectiveness of furnishing comprehensive preventive health care services to veterans with varied types and degrees of service-connected disabilities. Requires a comprehensive annual report to Congress on such programs. Requires the Administrator to carry out programs providing inpatient and outpatient treatment and rehabilitation services on a nationwide basis to eligible veterans suffering from alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities. Directs the Administrator to assist the Secretary of Labor in providing veterans receiving such treatment with appropriate job and training opportunities. Requires the Administrator, when an applicant for such treatment has received a less than honorable discharge from the armed services, to advise such applicant of his right to apply for review and correction of such discharge. Requires the provision of such services to eligible veterans who are charged with or convicted of any criminal offense and who are not confined and not required to participate in such a treatment program; and permits provision of such services, under specified conditions, to eligible veterans similarly charged or convicted, if a court does require participation in such a program. Allows a member of the active armed services with alcohol or drug problems to transfer to any Veterans' Administration facility for treatment within the last 30 days of such member's tour of duty. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to coordinate the Professional Standards Review program carried out under part B of title XI (General Provision) of the Social Security Act and the comparable programs carried out by the Department of Medicine and Surgery to assess the quality of patient care in Veterans' Administration health care facilities. Requires the Chief Medical Director, through the Administrator, to report to Congress on the effectiveness of such coordination. Requires the Chief Medical Director to report to Congress, not later than three months after the end of each fiscal year, on all activities in which he or a designee, as a representative of the Veterans' Administration, has participated in an advisory or coordinating capacity with respect to programs carried out by the executive branch.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977
Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to either (1) request any employee or applicant for employment to provide copies of military discharge papers or other service records; or (2) make inquiries relative to the military discharge of any employee or applicant for employment. Excepts from such prohibition inquiries made for the sole purpose of ascertaining either (1) education or work experience in the Armed Forces; or (2) any conditions by a court-martial.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide special psychological readjustment therapy and counseling services, and such follow-up treatment as may be necessary, to any veteran of the Vietnam era and to the dependents of any such veteran who is having emotional problems in adjusting to civilian life as the result of psychological disturbances experienced during the Vietnam era. Requires the Administrator to conduct a comprehensive study of the psychological and sociological effects of military service in the Vietnam War and the readjustment and rehabilitation problems related thereto, for the purpose of making recommendations for more effective psychological services by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977
Directs the Secretaries of the various armed forces to establish discharge review boards and panels and to geographically disburse such panels on the basis of population concentrations of discharge applicants. Requires such panels to travel to areas where a reasonable number of applications for review have been filed. Directs the discharge review boards and panels to review any discharge or dismissal from the armed forces granted under other than fully honorable conditions upon their own motion or upon the request of the former member or the representative of a former member. Directs the review board or panel to determine whether such discharge was fair and equitable, or in the interest of justice, by standards current at the time of review, taking into consideration all the circumstances of the case. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish guidelines and directives to be followed by the review boards and panels including specified mitigating and extenuating circumstances. Stipulates that the presence of strong mitigating factors shall normally warrant the upgrading of an other than fully dishonorable discharge to an honorable discharge, unless they are offset by serious aggravating factors which have a direct relationship to the issuance of an other than fully honorable discharge. Authorizes a review board or panel to issue an honorable discharge (limited) to individuals who were discharged under less than honorable conditions if such individuals have rehabilitated themselves and their conduct, activities and habits since being granted original discharge have been exemplary. Stipulates that such new discharge certificate shall be the same as a fully honorable discharge for all records and information pertaining to the individual. Stipulates that no benefits under any laws shall automatically be afforded to any individual issued an honorable discharge (limited) unless such an individual would have been entitled to such benefits under the original discharge or dismissal. Sets forth the procedures which review boards and panels must follow regarding review hearings. Requires the Government to furnish legal counsel or assistance as may be necessary to insure that an applicant is competent to present a claim for review, in clear cases of need. Directs the Secretary of Defense to carry out a public information program designed to inform former members of the armed services of the new discharge review program under this Act. Requires each Secretary of the various services concerned to prepare a semiannual report on the functions, problems, and accomplishments of the review boards and panels established under this Act. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1553)
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to disregard cost-of-living increases in social security benefits when determining the amount of a veteran's pension or dependency and indemnity compensation. Requires the inclusion of such disregarded amount in the determination of eligibility and the amount of pension or compensation benefits if, within the 12-month period after any amount is disregarded, an increased in the level of Veterans' Administration benefits provided an individual occurs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977
Declares it the sense of Congress that the President should declare a moratorium on United States manufacture of chemical weapons (lethal and incapacitating nerve and mustard agents and "binary agents') and order the destruction of certain United States stockpiles of such weapons. Urges other nations to destroy their stockpiles. Urges the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to conclude a treaty banning the manufacture and possession of such weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1977
Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments to retain on active duty or return to active duty members or former members of the armed forces suffering from a service-connected disability under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to (1) restore the entitlement of any person who lost their entitlement by reason of certain past increases in monthly social security benefits; and (2) pay in a lump sum to any such person any such compensation or pension that would have been payable to him but to such loss of entitlement.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1977
Extends the delimiting period for completing a veteran's education program until such time as the veteran completes or ends the program, if at the close of the ordinary ten-year delimiting period the veteran is enrolled in a program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. Applies these amendments to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 415(g), adds 38 U.S.C. 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1977
Amends the Veterans' Education and Employment Assistance Act of 1976 to permit an educational institution to negotiate any educational assistance allowance benefit check received by such institution if: (1) such institution negotiates such check under a valid power of attorney authorizing such institution as attorney-in-fact to negotiate such check; (2) such power of attorney was executed by the payee of such benefit check prior to December 1, 1976; and (3) the check is intended by the payee of such benefit check as payment for a course or courses in which the payee was enrolled prior to December 1, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1977
Declares it the sense of the Congress that the United States should oppose United Nations membership of Vietnam and deny diplomatic recognition to Vietnam until that country cooperates in securing a satisfactory accounting of Americans missing in action and unaccounted for in the territory under Vietnamese control.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Veterans and Survivors Pension Adjustment Act - Title I: Veterans' and Survivors' Pensions - Increases the rates of pensions for war veterans with a non-service-connected disability, their surviving spouses and children, and increases the annual income limitations governing payment of such pensions. Title II: Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Parents - Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the parents of veterans who died in active military service. Title III: Miscellaneous and Effective Date Provisions - Increases the monthly rate of death compensation payable to a widow or dependent parent if the payee is a patient in a nursing home or helpless or blind. States that the effective date of this Act shall be January 1, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Eliminates the requirement for inspections of the mobile home manufacturing process by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in connection with the granting of loans to veterans for the purchase of such homes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assist in acquiring specially adapted housing for those veterans who have a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, of one upper and one lower extremity, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Extends from two to six months the hospitalization, institutional, or domiciliary care period required prior to reduction of the stipend of a pensioner who has no dependents.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Veterans Education Reform Act -- Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to discontinue educational assistance to an eligible veteran or survivor or dependent of a veteran if the Administrator finds that the institution of higher learning concerned has failed to enforce its regularly prescribed standards and practices as approved by the appropriate State approving agency with respect to such veteran or person. Denies the Administrator any authority to prescribe educational standards or practices with respect to any institution of higher learning empowered to award a standard college degree. Requires the Administrator to provide individual educational and career counseling and other appropriate services to facilitate the education of any veteran or person whose educational assistance has been discontinued under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assist in acquiring specially adapted housing for those veterans who have a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, of one upper and one lower extremity, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to expand the job classifications to which female members of the armed forces may be assigned.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1977
Designates the Veterans' Administration hospital located at 200 Springs Road, Bedford, Massachusetts, as the "Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans' Hospital."
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1977
Amends the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to authorize the use of Federal civil defense funds by local civil defense agencies for natural disaster or civil disturbance relief. Increases the Federal contribution for travel expenses and per diem allowances for students in civil defense training programs and increases the Federal financial contribution to States for civil defense personnel and administrative expenses. Increases the authorization for appropriations under such Act for travel expenses, for personal equipment for State and local workers, and personnel and administrative expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1977
Amends the National Housing Act to make insurance available under the existing program of mortgage insurance for servicemen only to servicemen whose household income does not exceed 95 percent of the median household income for the area in which the serviceman is seeking housing, unless the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development raises or lowers such ceiling based on his findings that a variation is necessary because of prevailing levels of construction costs or other factors.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1977
Military Construction Appropriation Act - Appropriates specified sums for military construction projects for fiscal year 1978 for: (1) the Army; (2) the Navy; (3) the Air Force; (4) the Defense agencies; (5) the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard; (6) the Army Reserve; (7) the Naval Reserve; (7) the Air Force Reserve; (8) family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Defense agencies; and (9) the Homeowners Assistance Fund. Sets forth restrictions on the use of funds appropriated under this Act. Authorizes the use of funds made available under this Act for the hire of passenger motor vehicles and for advances to the Federal Highway Administration to construct defense access roads which are certified to be important to the national defense. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for any military base closure or realignment unless all the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act have been complied with.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1977
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1977, to repeal the prohibition of expenditure of funds for claims for nonemergency inpatient hospital care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) when such care was available at a facility of the uniformed services within a 40-mile radius of the patient's residence.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, or to the surviving spouse of each such veteran, or when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, or to the surviving spouse of each such veteran, or when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assist any veteran, who has a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, of one arm and one leg, including but not limited to cases of hemiplegia, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair, in acquiring a suitable housing unit with special fixtures or moveable facilities made necessary by the nature of the veteran's disability, and necessary land therefor.