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United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Authorizes the advance payment of the basic allowance for quarters and the variable housing allowance to members of the uniformed services.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1985
Waives the time limitations relating to the awarding of the Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Service Cross to certain named individuals for acts of valor while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1985
Increases the maximum amount of insurance available under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance program and the Veterans' Group Life Insurance program. Extends eligibility under the Veterans' Group Life Insurance program to members of the Individual Ready Reserve and the Inactive National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1985
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to guarantee loans made to veterans for the purchase of residential units held by cooperative housing projects.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Military Family Act of 1985 - Title I: Department of Defense Family Support Programs - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Defense an Office of Family Policy to coordinate programs and activities of the military departments as they relate to military families. Transfers the Military Family Resources Center within the Department of Defense. Makes travel and transportation allowances the same for members of the armed forces as those applicable to civilian employees. Requires temporary lodging expenses to be paid to such military members transferred within the United States or to a duty station outside the United States other than Hawaii or Alaska. Authorizes the payment of a transportation allowance to student dependents of military members assigned a permanent duty station in Alaska or Hawaii. Prohibits such transportation allowance when the dependent child is attending a school in Alaska or Hawaii. Requires the Secretary of Defense to allow members of the Selected Reserve and their dependents to use commissary and exchange stores for one day for each day of training duty performed by the member. Requires the Secretary of each military department to establish a program to provide relocation services to armed forces members who make a permanent change of station. Directs the Secretary concerned to enter into contracts with outside entities for the provision of such services. Establishes at each training installation a youth sponsorship program to facilitate the adaptation of transferred members' children to new surroundings. Directs the Secretary of Defense to allow limited commercial activities to be carried out from military family housing units by members and their dependents. Requires the Secretary to provide child-care facilities on military installations on a 24-hour-a-day basis when needed. Requires the Secretary, within one year of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on ways for spouses of military members to obtain employment at child-care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to establish dental benefit plans for spouses and children of military members who are on active duty for more than 30 days. Requires the member to pay a part of the plan's cost, as determined by the Secretary, to be deducted from the member's basic pay. Outlines the dental benefits to be included in such plan. Title II: Assistance to Military Families - Provides, for Federal income tax purposes, for the deductibility of amounts attributable to tax-free housing allowances. Provides that the Secretary shall require that all Department of Defense non-appropriated fund activities give preference in hiring to dependents of military members. Provides the same hiring preference in Department of Defense civil service positions for spouses of such military members. Outlines conditions for such preference. Repeals Federal law which transferred overseas defense dependents schools to the Department of Education. Provides that, as a condition for States to receive grant assistance to carry out child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment programs, such States must provide the Secretary of Defense with reports of suspected child abuse and neglect where the person having care of the child is a member (or spouse of a member) of the armed forces. Title III: Reports - Requires the Secretary of Defense, within one year of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the availability and affordability of off-base housing for military members. Requires the Secretary, on the same date, to also report to the Congress on recommendations to facilitate the smooth transition between schools with differing graduation requirements of dependent children of military members making a permanent change of station. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Reaffirms U.S. policy stating that the Department of the Navy shall construct on the Pacific coast such U.S. naval vessels as the President deems necessary to protect the requirements of national defense. Requires the President, within 60 days of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on actions taken or planned in order to implement such policy.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Allows an action to be brought in U.S. district court or the District Court for the District of Columbia in the event of a disagreement with respect to any claim for compensation under any law administered by the Veterans Administration on account of disability or death incurred or aggravated in line of duty while serving in the active military or naval service. Provides that any such action must be instituted within two years from enactment of this Act or within two years from the date of the mailing of notice by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs regarding such claim (whichever date is the later). Allows attorney's fees.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Establishes a minimum monthly rate of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain pre-World War II war veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Extends from FY 1985 to 1986 the authority of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to contract for hospital care or medical services in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands without reference to patient loads or incidence of provision of medical services for veterans treated by the Veterans Administration in the contiguous 48 States.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985
Commends Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer for exceptionally distinguished service to the U.S. Air Force, the national and defense intelligence communities, and the national security of the United States. Urges the President to award the National Security Medal to Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Atomic Veterans Relief Act of 1985 - Provides disability benefits to veterans who participated in atomic tests or the occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki after World War II and who, within 40 years, suffer from diseases that may be attributable to ionizing radiation, including: (1) leukemia, (2) polycythemia vera; (3) carcinoma of the thyroid; (4) chromosomal damage; (5) posterior subcapsular cataracts; and (6) other radiogenic cancers. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to promulgate regulations to resolve benefit claims and provide standards for benefit determinations and the inclusion of additional diseases as the basis for benefits. Provides for survivors' benefits. Directs the Administrator to report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees of the Congress whenever legislative action related to the subject matter of the regulations is needed. Requires proposed and final regulations to be published in the Federal Register by the Administrator within specified periods. Establishes a presumption that a disability is service-connected for a veteran exposed to ionizing radiation while on active duty, notwithstanding the absence of Government records documenting any such exposure. Provides medical care for the treatment of genetic or congenital disorders in the natural children of affected veterans. Entitles such children to educational assistance. Requires the Administrator to carry out an outreach, screening, and counseling program to serve those veterans, dependents, and survivors entitled to benefits under this Act. Directs the Administrator to establish a research and training program for the diagnosis and treatment of disabilities caused by exposure to ionizing radiation, including a centralized registry of claims. Directs the Administrator to make a comprehensive report on these programs in the annual report to the Congress under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Requires the Director of the U.S. Information Agency to make available, upon request, to the Department of Defense and to the military departments photographs of military operations and military related activities in Vietnam for purposes of the development and publication of military histories.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Skilled Enlisted Reserve Training Act - Directs the Secretary of each military department to establish a skilled enlisted reserve training program to obtain adequate numbers of enlisted members with critical technical skills. Permits each Secretary to enter into an agreement with a qualified person under which the Secretary agrees to provide educational assistance in a technical field in exchange for that person's agreement to serve either: (1) on active duty for one month for each month of assistance received; or (2) in the reserves for four months for each month of assistance received. Sets a monthly maximum payment of $300 for such assistance and a maximum length of such assistance at 24 months. Sets forth eligibility requirements. Requires accepted members to complete basic training before beginning technical training. Sets forth penalties for noncompletion of training, including possible reimbursement of educational assistance. Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to approve the courses and educational institution before the Secretary may enter into an agreement with a member. Permits the Veterans Administration to provide educational assistance under this Act. Directs the President to make an annual report to the Congress concerning such program. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Commends Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer for exceptionally distinguished service to the U.S. Air Force, the national and defense intelligence communities, and the national security of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985
Atomic Veterans Relief Act of 1985 - Provides disability benefits to veterans who participated in atomic tests or the occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki after World War II and who, within 40 years, suffer from diseases that may be attributable to ionizing radiation, including: (1) leukemia; (2) polycythemia vera; (3) carcinoma of the thyroid; (4) chromosomal damage; (5) posterior subcapsular cataracts; and (6) other radiogenic cancers. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to promulgate regulations to resolve benefit claims and provide standards for benefit determinations and the inclusion of additional diseases as the basis for benefits. Provides for survivors' benefits. Directs the Administrator to report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees of the Congress whenever legislative action related to the subject matter of the regulations is needed. Requires proposed and final regulations to be published in the Federal Register by the Administrator within specified periods. Establishes a presumption that a disability is service-connected for a veteran exposed to ionizing radiation while on active duty, notwithstanding the absence of Government records documenting any such exposure. Provides medical care for the treatment of genetic or congenital disorders in the natural children of affected veterans. Entitles such children to educational assistance. Requires the Administrator to carry out an outreach, screening, and counseling program to serve those veterans, dependents, and survivors entitled to benefits under this Act. Directs the Administrator to establish a research and training program for the diagnosis and treatment of disabilities caused by exposure to ionizing radiation, including a centralized registry of claims. Directs the Administrator to make a comprehensive report on these programs in the annual report to the Congress under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Veterans' Compensation Rate Amendments of 1985 - Increases the rate of veterans' disability compensation additional compensation for dependents, and the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and for children, as well as the rates of supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Entitles the surviving spouse of a commandant of the Coast Guard who dies a service-connected death to an increased rate of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Requires the Veterans Administration to maintain a regional office in each State for the adjudication and processing of claims for benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Authorizes the payment of a bonus of $1,000 to members of the Ready Reserve who agree to extend their enlistment for at least six years and perform annual active duty for training during such period of extension.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Department of Defense Competitive Procurement Act of 1985 - Prohibits the amount of competitive defense procurements made during a fiscal year from being less than: (1) the applicable percentage for that year; and (2) the amount of all applicable procurements made by the Department of Defense during that year. Prohibits the obligation of funds for the purchase of goods or services in an other-than-competitive procedure if in any fiscal year the amount of competitive defense procurements is less than that required. Defines "competitive defense procurements," "applicable percentage," and "applicable procurements" for purposes of such requirement.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to allow members of the Selected Reserve and their dependents to use the commissary and exchange for a period determined by the amount of a reserve member's active duty and inactive-duty training. Authorizes similar commissary and exchange privileges for members of the Retired Reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985
Designates the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, as the Overton Brooks Veterans Administration Medical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1985
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for procurement by the armed forces and the defense agencies of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. Extends through FY 1986 the authority of the Secretary of Defense, in carrying out the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the NATO Ministers of the Defense concerning the NATO AWACS program, to waive reimbursement for the costs of specified functions performed by certain personnel and to assume contingent liability for program losses and specified charges. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for operation and maintenance. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1986 as necessary for unbudgeted increases in fuel costs and as the result of inflation. Title IV: Working Capital Funds - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the working capital fund of each of the armed forces and for the Defense Stock Fund. Title V: Active Forces - Authorizes strengths for active duty personnel as of the end of FY 1986. Title VI: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the selected reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986. Permits the reduction and increase in such strengths as specified. Authorizes a specified number of reserves to serve on full-time active duty in order to organize, administer, instruct, recruit, or train the reserve components. Permits the end strength levels to be increased by two percent in the national interest. Increases the number of certain personnel who may be on active duty in specified grades. Title VII: Civilian Personnel - Provides that Federal law requiring the authorization of end strengths by the Congress as of the end of each fiscal year before funds will be appropriated for the use of civilian personnel of any armed forces component for that fiscal year shall not apply with respect to FY 1986. Title VIII: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for each component of the armed forces for FY 1986. Requires the adjustment of such loads as the manpower strengths of each component are adjusted. Title IX: General Provisions - Removes the requirement that a specified percentage of industrial program funds be used for the acquisition of capital equipment during FY 1986 and 1987. Terminates the Office of Education for Overseas Dependents. Repeals certain functions transfers between the Department of Defense and the Secretary of Education relating to the administration of overseas schools. Terminates the Office of Under Secretary of Education and related offices. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to request from the Secretary of Education information concerning educational programs and practices. Establishes in the Department of Defense an Advisory Council on Dependents' Education to provide information and make recommendations for the operation of the defense dependents' education system. Increases the size of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Repeals the European troop strength limitation contained in the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1985
Commends Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer for exceptionally distinguished service to the U.S. Air Force, the national and defense intelligence missions, and the national security of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1985
Places upon the Secretary of Defense certain restrictions concerning the storage and demilitarization of chemical munitions and lethal chemical agents at Lexington-Bluegrass Army Depot, Kentucky.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1985
Establishes the Veterans Administration as an executive department redesignated as the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Makes technical and conforming changes, including the redesignation of the Administrator as the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery in Maricopa County, Arizona, on the site of and coextensive with the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Arizona. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs, not later than July 1 annually, to report to the appropriate congressional committees a plan to expand the national cemetery system, together with a list of ten areas in the United States with the greatest need for additional burial space for veterans. Provides a contingent reporting date for the first such report.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Condemns all acts of violence in Northern Ireland. Calls upon the United Kingdom to outlaw the Ulster Defense Association and any like terrorist organization.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to assist certain disabled veterans in acquiring a residence already adapted with special features deemed necessary due to the veteran's disability.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Extends medical care, dental care, and commissary and exchange privileges to surviving dependents of certain reserve members of the armed forces who die in connection with military service. (Currently, such privileges are extended to surviving dependents of active-duty personnel only.)
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Selected Reserve Health Professionals Incentive Act of 1985 - Amends Federal law concerning health professions scholarships to include the possibility for such scholarships to members of the Selected Reserve of the armed forces (currently limited to active-duty personnel). Outlines the military service obligations, either active-duty or Selected Reserve, for members of the scholarship program. Increases the total number of persons authorized to be appointed to such program from 5,000 to 7,500. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to pay a stipend to a reserve commissioned officer who is a health professional and who is participating in an internship, residency, or similar program of training in a civilian institution leading to qualification in a specialty. Limits the maximum amount of such stipend to $1,000 per month, with specified increases after FY 1986. Provides that any officer receiving such a stipend incurs a military service obligation in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve to be determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Requires such officer to serve such military training as required. Provides for stipend refund or other military service for officers receiving stipends who fail to successfully complete the required program of training. Provides for credit for time served as a health profession specialist upon appointment as a commissioned officer in the armed forces or reserves. Provides for special pay for reserve medical officers in specified circumstances. Provides for special pay for health professionals of the reserve components (other than reserve medical officers) in specified circumstances. Provides for proficiency pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve engaged in health care specialties in specified circumstances. Provides for a signing bonus to reserve medical officers who sign written agreements to serve in the Ready Reserve for at least three years, with a higher bonus paid to those agreeing to serve in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve. Requires bonus refund by an officer if the agreed-upon service period is not completed. Provides for continuation pay to reserve medical officers for each year of satisfactory service in the Selected Reserve or the Ready Reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Makes unlawful the refusal of any employer to hire a person because such person is a member of: (1) a Reserve component of the armed forces; or (2) the National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Military Selective Service Amendments of 1985 - Directs the President to resume the registration of individuals pursuant to the Military Selective Service Act. Removes the restriction that only males between ages 18 and 26 may be subject to the selective service, and instead requires registration from all males who reach age 18 after December 31, 1977. Requires that the President provide for the induction of not more than 200,000 persons into the armed forces in each fiscal year after FY 1985 for service in the Individual Ready Reserve of the Army Reserve. Provides that individuals so inducted shall be required to serve not less than 12 weeks of active duty for training. Provides that a random sequence drawing shall be conducted for induction for all registrants. Provides that, effective upon the enactment of authority to induct persons into the armed forces, no deferment will be granted to persons enlisting in any reserve component of the armed forces or the Ready Reserve of any such reserve component. Requires that the entire Selective Service System annually participate in training to simulate emergency mobilization procedures. Exempts the Selective Service System from executive reorganization orders.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Increases from $60 to $75 the maximum monthly pension payable to a veteran being furnished hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care by the Veterans Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Extends by one year the application deadline for participation in job training programs under the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations under such Act through FY 1986. Extends the availability for obligation of such amounts as are appropriated through FY 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Requires a presumption of service connection for veterans with syringomyelia developed to a ten percent or greater degree of disability within seven years after separation from active wartime service for purposes of veterans' disability compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Permits certain veterans with service-connected disabilities who are eligible for military retired pay to receive compensation (other than disability retirement pay) from the Veterans Administration concurrently with such retired pay, without deduction from either.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Includes the service-connected loss or loss of use of a kidney or lung among the conditions for which war veterans may receive additional monthly disability compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
World War I Veterans Special Pension Act - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay (in addition to any pension already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service and income requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Reduces from 100 to 50 percent the degree of service-connected disability a veteran must have to be eligible for non-service-connected dental care from the Veterans Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Increases the pension paid to the surviving spouse of a veteran or to the child of a veteran whenever there is no surviving spouse. Increases the disability pension payable to veterans who meet certain disability and service requirements. Prohibits proceeds from certain Government life insurance policies from being considered annual income for purposes of the determination of veterans' death and disability benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Includes lupus erythematosus among the chronic diseases considered to be service-connected for purposes of veterans' benefits if it manifests itself to a degree of ten percent or more within one year of separation from service.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs, not later than July 1 annually, to report to the appropriate congressional committees a plan to expand the national cemetery system, together with a list of ten areas in the United States with the greatest need for additional burial space for veterans. Provides a contingent reporting date for the first such report.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Increases the veterans' burial plot allowance from $150 to $250 for eligible veterans who die in Veterans Administration facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Directs the Secretary of Labor to appoint veterans' employment representatives to supervise and monitor veterans' employment programs on a regional basis.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to furnish prescription drugs prescribed by private physicians to veterans for the treatment of service-connected disabilities.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Reduces from 50 to 30 percent the degree of service-connected disability a veteran must have to be eligible for non-service-connected outpatient care from the Veterans Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Repeals the requirement that a chronic disease becoming manifest in a veteran within one year of the veteran's discharge from military service must be at least ten percent disabling in order to be presumed to be service-connected for purposes of veterans' benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985
Continues mortgage protection life insurance to eligible veterans beyond their 70th birthday. Allows veterans over 70 whose insurance was terminated solely because of such age to reobtain such insurance.