Defence

Bill· HRH.R. 10721 (95th)referred

World War II Veterans' Bonus Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978

World War II Veterans' Bonus Act - Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make a lump-sum bonus payment to each qualified World War II veteran, or their survivor, equal to the sum of (1) $5 times the number of days of active duty performed by the veteran outside the continental United States; and (2) $4 times the number of days of active duty performed by the veteran within the continental United States. Requires applications for such payment to be filed within three years of enactment of this Act. Entitles the survivor of a qualified veteran to receive such payment if such veteran dies before receiving it.

Bill· HRH.R. 10728 (95th)referred

Veterans and Survivors Pension Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 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 catagories of payments excluded from the determination of annual income for benefit payment purposes. Requires persons applying for a non-service-connected disability pension 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 veteran's 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. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions and Effective Dates - Sets the effective dates for provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 10726 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum permissible loan amounts in the case of a Veterans' Administration home loan guaranty.

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978

Increases the amount of a home loan which may be guaranteed by the Veterans Administration from $17,500 to $25,000.

Bill· HRH.R. 10702 (95th)referred

Veterans and Survivors Pension Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 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 catagories of payments excluded from the determination of annual income for benefit payment purposes. Requires persons applying for a non-service-connected disability pension 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 veteran's 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. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions and Effective Dates - Sets the effective dates for provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 10678 (95th)referred

A bill to prevent the reduction of pension benefits for veterans, and survivors of veterans, of the Mexican border period, World War I, World War II, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam era, as the result of adjustment on Social Security annuities.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978

Authorizes increases in certain pensions to veterans and their survivors of the Mexican border period, World Wars I and II, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam era to match increases in social security payments.

Bill· HRH.R. 10703 (95th)referred

Veterans and Survivors Pension Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 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 catagories of payments excluded from the determination of annual income for benefit payment purposes. Requires persons applying for a non-service-connected disability pension 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 veteran's 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. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions and Effective Dates - Sets the effective dates for provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 10672 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to place certain limitations on the exemption of a member of the Armed Forces from the personal property taxes of the jurisdiction in which the member is stationed.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978

Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to require any person seeking exemption from personal property taxes in the State or political subdivision where he abides in compliance with military or naval orders, to file a written statement with such State or subdivision stating: (1) the name of the State or political subdivision claimed as residence or domicile; and (2) evidence of tax compliance with the claimed State or subdivision, if it imposes a personal property tax similar to the one imposed by the State or subdivision of abode.

Bill· HRH.R. 10683 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide transportation to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America in connection with International World Friendship Events or Troops on Foreign Soil meetings, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978

Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide transportation to the Girl Scouts in the United States to international world friendship events or troops on foreign soil meetings which occur outside the United States. Requires the Girl Scouts to reimburse the Government for the actual cost of such transportation.

Bill· HRH.R. 10648 (95th)referred

Defense Economic Adjustment Act

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978

Defense Economic Adjustment Act - States the purpose of this Act to be to provide advance planning for effective conversion of defense-related industries to productive civilian activity and to provide economic adjustment assistance to affected communities, industries, and workers which may be substantially and seriously affected by reductions in defense expenditures. Title I: Defense Economic Adjustment Council - Establishes a Defense Economic Adjustment Council in the Executive Office of the President, membership to include Cabinet officers, representatives of the business-management community, and representatives of labor union organizations. Defines the duties of the Council, including: (1) encouraging preparation of plans for civilian-oriented public projects; (2) supervising the establishment of a Job Information Bank in the Department of Labor to coordinate State, local and Federal employment services; (3) preparing lists of organizations and consultants engaged in civilian-oriented activity for use by local conversion committees; and (4) preparing and distributing a Conversion Guidelines Handbook. Title II: Alternative Use Committees - Establishes local Alternative Use Committees to undertake economic conversion planning and preparation in the event of reductions in defense spending resulting in substantial and serious unemployment. Provides a fund for performing these duties to be derived from the military contract or base operating costs. Title III: Economic Adjustment Fund - Provides for establishment in the Treasury of a Workers Economic Adjustment Reserve Trust Fund. Requires defense contractors to pay to the Fund an amount equal to one and a quarter percent per year of their gross revenue. Title IV: Economic Adjustment Assistance for Workers - Requires that all displacements in defense related facilities affecting more than five percent of the workers be reported to the State employment office or agency acting as agent for administration of employees' benefits programs. Provides eligible workers with two year entitlement to the following applicable benefits: (1) compensation on a weekly basis to maintain an income equal to 90 percent of the first $20,000 per year and 50 percent of the next $5,000 in excess of $20,000; (2) vested pension credit; (3) maintenance of hospital, surgical, medical, disability, and life insurance coverage; (4) retraining for civilian work; and (5) necessary relocation expenses. Requires all managerial and technical employees who have spent more than 50 percent of the ten years preceding implementation of the plan to participate in a professional retraining program in order to be eligible for benefits. Authorizes the Council to reimburse a State or administering agency (acting as agent of the Council) for all benefits paid. Title V: Use of Certain Research Funds - Amends the Defense Authorization Act of 1970 to expand kinds of independent research and development which can be funded in a defense contract to include projects which the Council believes have a potential relationship to an urgent national requirement in a designated non-defense sector. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes the appropriation of sums which may be necessary to carry out provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 10643 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a court of Veterans' Appeals and to prescribe its jurisdiction and functions.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978

Establishes a Court of Veterans' Appeals, appointed by the President, with exclusive jurisdiction to review by appeal all questions involved in decisions of the Board of Veterans' Appeals.

Bill· HRH.R. 10639 (95th)referred

Veterans and Survivors Pension Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 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 catagories of payments excluded from the determination of annual income for benefit payment purposes. Requires persons applying for a non-service-connected disability pension 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 veteran's 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. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions and Effective Dates - Sets the effective dates for provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 10613 (95th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 5, title 37, United States Code, to restructure the rates of special pay for sea duty.

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978

Entitles members of the uniformed services in pay grades E-4 and above who are performing sea duty to special career sea pay.

Bill· HRH.R. 10614 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to extend from six months to nine months the period for which the Veterans Administration may pay for certain nursing home care furnished to eligible veterans by private institutions.

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978

Extends to nine months (now six months) the period for which the Veterans' Administration may pay for certain nursing home care furnished by private institutions to eligible veterans.

Bill· HRH.R. 10592 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to increase from $250 to $400 the maximum allowance provided for the burial and funeral expenses of certain veterans and of patients in Veterans' Administration facilities.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978

Increases from $250 to $400 the burial and funeral expense allowance which may be paid by the Veterans Administration on behalf of certain deceased veterans.

Bill· HRH.R. 10595 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase from 500 dollars to 1,000 dollars the amount by which the annual income of certain disabled veterans may exceed the maximum annual income limitation for pensions without such veterans losing the right to continue to receive drugs and medication from the Veterans' Administration.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978

Increases from $500 to $1,000 the amount by which the annual income of certain disabled veterans may exceed the maximum annual income limitation for pensions without such veterans losing the right to continue to receive drugs and medication from the Veterans' Administration.

Bill· HRH.R. 10567 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to remove the requirement that the twenty years for which a disability rating of total or permanent total disability must be in force for such rating to be preserved must be continuous.

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978

Prohibits the Veterans' Administration from down grading a disability rating of total or permanent total which has been made for compensation, pension or insurance purposes if such rating has been made for 20 years, regardless of whether or not such 20 years were continuous.

Law· SS. 2424 (95th)open