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Bill· SS. 664 (98th)reported

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide certain contract hospital care and medical services in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other territories.

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983

Extends from FY 1983 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.

Law· HRH.R. 1870 (98th)enacted

Vietnam Veterans National Medal Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983

Vietnam Veterans National Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to coin and sell a medal in honor of the members and former members of the Armed Forces who served in Vietnam. Declares that the Secretary shall offer such medals for sale to the public at a price sufficient to cover the cost of minting and distributing of such medals.

Bill· HRH.R. 1918 (98th)open

World War I Veterans Service Pension Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983

World War I Veterans Service 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 requirements and to certain surviving spouses.

Bill· HRH.R. 1927 (98th)open

Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983

Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1983 - Title I: National Security Programs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 to the Department of Energy for operating expenses incurred in carrying out national security programs, including scientific research and development, strategic and critical materials necessary for common defense, military applications of nuclear energy, and additional authorizations for specific projects. Authorizes appropriations for specified plant and capital equipment necessary for national security programs. Title II: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of Congress, unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of Energy has presented to all the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of such requirement where such waiver is approved in writing by each appropriate committee of Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to start any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of such project does not exceed $1,000,000. Sets forth procedures for approval of projects that exceed the 25 percent estimated cost provision, and exempts from such procedures any project which has an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for construction projects in support of national security programs as appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate committees of Congress in writing of specific cost overruns. Authorizes funds for emergency construction design and pay increases.

Bill· HRH.R. 1914 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for service-connected compensation to be paid to veterans (and their families) who were exposed to nuclear radiation or to toxic chemicals and who are suffering from radiological or chemical disabilities, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983

Creates a presumption of service-connected disability for compensation purposes for any veteran who was exposed to radiation or toxic chemicals while actively serving in the armed forces and who is now suffering from a disability or disorder symptomatic of such exposure. Maintains such presumption even in the absence of records. Entitles to disability or death compensation and to dependency and indemnity compensation any children of such a veteran with a disability or defect which may reasonably be determined to have been caused by genetic damage in the veteran. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to carry out a comprehensive program to screen veterans who may have been exposed to radiation or toxic chemicals during their active service to determine whether they incurred a disease or disability from such exposure. Requires the Administrator to provide outreach and counseling services. Directs the Administrator to establish a research and training program in the diagnosis and treatment of disabilities caused by exposure to radiation. Requires the establishment of a centralized registry of claims before the Veterans Administration or other agencies arising out of actual or possible exposure to radiation and toxic chemicals. Requires the Administrator to include in the annual report to Congress a comprehensive report on the administration and implementation of such screening and research activities.

Law· SS. 653 (98th)enacted

An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983

Authorizes the establishment of the Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, a nonprofit corporation to promote teaching, research, academic activities, and medical care for the advancement of military medicine through cooperative efforts of the Foundation, the medical community, and the public. Requires the Foundation to report annually to the President and the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (University). Authorizes the University to contract with the Foundation for cooperative enterprises in medical research, consultation, and education. States that the Foundation shall not for any purpose be an agency or instrumentality of the U.S. Government.

Bill· HRH.R. 1834 (98th)referred

A bill to provide for determination through judicial proceedings of claims for compensation on account of disability or death resulting from disease or injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty while serving in the active military or naval service, including those who served during peacetime, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983

Allows an action to be brought in United States 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.

Bill· HRH.R. 1816 (98th)open

Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983

Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design in connection with military family housing construction and improvements. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units and acquire manufactured home facilities at specified installations. Authorizes expenditures to improve existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Increases the number of irrigable acres which may be leased for agricultural and grazing purposes at the Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units and acquire manufactured home facilities at specified installations. Authorizes improvements to existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units as specified. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design in connection with military family housing construction. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units and acquire manufactured home facilities at specified installations. Permits expenditures to improve existing units. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1983 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total cost of all projects to the total amounts authorized to be appropriated for each military department concerned. States that such authorizations shall expire at the end of FY 1985 except as otherwise specified. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family housing. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1983 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into agreements to occupy privately or State or locally developed rental housing located near military installations that have a shortage of family housing. Sets forth the terms and conditions of such agreements. Increases the number of high cost leases which may be entered into.

Bill· HRH.R. 1763 (98th)referred

A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study whether there may be a relationship between the exposure of members of the Armed Forces of the United States to nuclear radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki immediately after World War II and various symptoms currently exhibited by such members.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study to determine whether there is a relationship between the exposure of members of the U.S. armed forces to nuclear radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and any abnormal health symptoms currently exhibited by such individuals. Requires a report to Congress within two years of enactment of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 1769 (98th)referred

War Resisters Exoneration Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983

War Resisters Exoneration Act of 1983 - Grants general amnesty to persons who violated certain laws between August 4, 1964, and the date of enactment of this Act, including: (1) draft evasion; (2) abetting draft evasion; (3) draft card destruction; (4) refusing induction into the armed forces; (5) desertion; (6) abetting desertion; (7) using contemptuous words against specified governmental officials while a commissioned officer; and (8) causing or attempting to cause disloyalty or mutiny by any member of the armed forces. States that the effect of the amnesty shall be to nullify all legal consequences of any such violation. Establishes an Amnesty Commission, and directs the Commission to grant amnesty to any person who, between August 5, 1964, and the date of enactment of this Act, violated any Federal law not enumerated in this Act or any State or local law if it finds that: (1) such violation was in substantial part motivated by the individual's opposition to United States involvement in Indochina; and (2) the individual was not personally responsible for any significant property damage or substantial personal injury to others. Directs the Commission to grant amnesty to any person whose violation of law resulted in such damage or injury if it finds the violation was justifiable on the basis of a deeply held moral or ethical belief. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 1819 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve survivor benefits in the case of certain veterans who at the time of death had a 100 percent service-connected disability.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983

Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay the burial and funeral expenses of certain totally disabled veterans. Entitles surviving spouses eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation to housing and small business loans.

Bill· HRH.R. 1785 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that veterans' compensation or pension benefits to which an inmate of a State penal institution or State hospital is otherwise entitled may be paid directly to the State as reimbursement for costs incurred in the care of such inmate during the imprisonment or confinement, if the State law requires inmates in such institutions or hospitals to make reimbursement for such costs.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983

Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay to a State any veterans' compensation or pension benefits to which an inmate or patient of a State penal institution or a State hospital would otherwise be entitled.

Bill· HRH.R. 1774 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide certain contract hospital care and medical services in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other territories.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983

Extends from FY 1983 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.

Bill· SS. 636 (98th)open

Veterans Administration Adjudication Procedure and Judicial Review Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1983

Veterans Administration Adjudication Procedure and Judicial Review Act - Title I: Adjudication Procedures - Codifies, for Veterans Administration (VA) adjudication purposes, the burden of proof and reasonable doubt standards currently provided for by VA regulation. States that a claimant has the burden of submitting sufficient evidence to justify his or her claim, and that if an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence exists regarding the merits of a claim, the VA is to resolve such doubt in favor of the claimant. States that VA subpoenas may be served either by personal delivery or by registered or certified mail. Increases the maximum size of the Board of Veterans' Appeals from 50 to 65 members. Requires the chairman of such Board to submit an annual report to the appropriate congressional committees concerning the Board's current handling of cases and projections for the subsequent fiscal year. Requires the Board to: (1) provide notice to a claimant and an opportunity for a hearing before a decision may be based on "additional official information" received after a Board decision has previously been made; and (2) make its decision exclusively on evidence and material of record in the proceeding. Removes the requirement that new material sufficient to allow the Board to reopen a previously disallowed claim be in the form of official reports. Provides that the Board's discretionary authority to reopen a claim will not be diminished by a judicial decision following an appeal as provided for by this Act. Requires the Board to mail to the claimant notice of its decision and the reasons for such decision. Provides that, upon the request of a claimant, the Board shall provide an independent advisory medical opinion when there exists substantial medical disagreement with respect to a material issue in a veteran's appeal. Sets forth new procedural rules for adjudication hearings regarding: (1) oaths, affirmations, and witness examination; (2) admissibility of evidence; (3) procedural rights of claimants; (4) disqualification of a hearing officer; (5) the record of the proceedings and the claimants' right to examine and obtain a copy of such record; and (6) the exclusiveness of veterans' adjudication procedures and rights prescribed by the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to provide at each stage of the appeal proceedings written notice to a claimant of procedural rights and procedures. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study of two alternative claims resolution methods, one a new intermediate-level adjudication process, the other an enhanced schedule of formal Appeals Board hearings. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress on such studies. Title II: Veterans' Administration Rule Making - Includes the VA's rulemaking procedures under the relevant provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. Title III: Judicial Review - Provides for judicial review of VA decisions in the Federal court system. States with regard to jurisdiction: (1) the definition of final decision; (2) that judicial review of a final decision in a claim for benefits may be obtained in a civil action brought within 180 days of the Board's mailing of notice of its decision, and that such action shall be brought in Federal district court; (3) that the VA shall file the various materials constituting the record in a case together with its answer to the claimant's complaint; (4) that the court may render a decision on the pleadings; and (5) that the judicial review procedures established under this Act shall not apply to insurance and home loans. States, with regard to the reviewing court's scope of review, that such court: (1) decide questions of law and interpret constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions, but that questions of fact (unless unsupported by substantial evidence) will not be subject to a trial de novo; and (2) in reviewing a final decision of the VA which is adverse to a party solely because such party failed to comply with VA procedures, such court may only review questions concerning such procedures. Sets out provisions regarding remand, survival of actions, and appellate review. Title IV: Attorneys' Fees - Authorizes the Administrator to allow attorneys' fees above the present $10 maximum if the appealing party's claim is allowed by the VA after an initial denial. States that such fee shall be the lesser of: (1) the fee agreed upon by the party and attorney; (2) $500, unless the Administrator approves a greater amount; or (3) if the party and attorney have entered into a contingent-fee agreement, not more than 25 percent of the total of any past-due benefits awarded on the basis of such party's claim. Provides for the approval of attorneys' fees, in successful veterans' claims brought before a court, as provided for under this Act. States that such fees shall be determined by such court, and in contingent-fee agreements such fees shall not exceed 25 percent of the total of any past-due benefits awarded on the basis of such claim. Authorizes attorneys' fees of up to $750 in certain unsuccessful veterans' claims. Prohibits the VA from authorizing payment to a claimant's attorney based on past-due benefits unless such benefits are owed as of the date of the VA's or a court's award. States that such provisions regarding attorneys' fees shall only apply to claims for benefits under the laws administered by the VA and shall not apply in cases in which the VA is the plaintiff or in which other attorneys' fees statutes are otherwise controlling. Title V: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates for this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 1740 (98th)open

A bill to authorize the President to impose a tariff surcharge on the products of certain countries in order to offset the expense of providing United States defense assistance to such countries.

United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1983

Authorizes the President to impose tariff surcharges on articles imported from Japan, France, or any country within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if the President determines that the cost of providing such country with defense assistance should be offset by tariff surcharges.

Bill· HRH.R. 1721 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that periods of employment of retired members of the Armed Forces employed as administrators and instructors in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs shall be treated as active duty for purposes of recomputation of retired pay and to provide that certain amounts paid such members shall be treated as active duty allowances.

United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1983

Entitles retired members of the armed forces employed by the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps to recompute their retired or retainer pay based on such employment and to treat any amounts received for such employment as an allowance.

Bill· SS. 601 (98th)open

Defense Procurement Training Demonstration Project Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983

Defense Procurement Training Demonstration Project Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry out demonstration projects to provide training in skilled occupations related to defense procurement in which there are substantial shortages of workers. Directs the Secretary of Labor to develop and publish a list of skilled occupations with substantial shortages. Directs the Secretary of Defense to then select from that list occupations which will have an adverse impact on defense procurement if the shortage is not reduced. Requires the Secretary of Defense to carry out demonstration projects with selected contracts for defense procurement, requiring the contractors to provide training in the shortage area. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within two and one-half years on the demonstration projects. Amends the Defense Industrial Reserve Act to authorize the Secretary to donate surplus machine tools and related equipment to specified educational institutions or training schools having loan agreements on such property if it is no longer needed by the Department.

Bill· HRH.R. 1645 (98th)open

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the per diem rate payable by the Veterans Administration to States providing domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care to veterans in State homes, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983

Increases the amount of reimbursement which the Administrator of Veterans Affairs shall pay to a State for furnishing domiciliary, hospital, or nursing home care to eligible veterans who receive such care in State facilities. Directs the Administrator to report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees every three years on the appropriate rates for payments.

Bill· HRH.R. 1654 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that a person who has not been married previously and marries a veteran who has a permanent and total service-connected disability after the disability is determined to exist shall be afforded educational assistance by the Veterans' Administration comparable to that which would have been afforded had the marriage preceded the determination of such disability.

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983

Extends eligibility for educational assistance to the spouse of a veteran with a permanent and total service-connected disability even when such marriage takes places after a determination of such disability if such marriage is the veteran's first.

Bill· HRH.R. 1642 (98th)referred

World War I Veterans Pension Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983

World War I Veterans' Pension Act of 1983 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay (in addition to any pension already paid) a monthly pension of $150: (1) to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements; (2) to the surviving spouse of each such veteran; or (3) when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.

Bill· SS. 578 (98th)open

Veterans Health Care and Programs Improvement Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983

Veterans' Health Care and Programs Improvement Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Adult Day Health Care Services Program - Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program furnishing adult day care health services at Veterans Administration (VA) medical facilities to eligible veterans. Terminates such program after FY 1987. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1987. Directs the Administrator to include a comprehensive report on this program in his annual report to Congress. Title II: Community Residential Care - Authorizes the Administrator to refer veterans eligible for hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, and medical care through the Veterans Administration to community residential facilities. Makes each veteran responsible for the cost of care and services provided by such facilities. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations regarding such facilities to ensure the health and safety of placed veterans. Requires the Administrator's approval of a facility before placement assistance is provided. Title III: Presumption Concerning Dysthymic Disorder - Creates a presumption of service-connection for disability purposes for dysthymic disorder (or depressive neurosis) manifest to a degree of ten percent or more in a veteran who is a former prisoner of war. Title IV: Beneficiary Travel - Permits the Administrator to pay the total travel costs of certain veterans receiving medical care at VA facilities. Title V: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for this Act

Bill· SS. 567 (98th)open

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize reimbursement for the reasonable charge for chiropractic services provided to certain veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983

Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to reimburse eligible veterans for reasonable charges for chiropractic services. Directs the Administrator to establish a schedule of reasonable charges. Requires the Administrator to make annual reports to the Veterans Affairs Committees for four years concerning the use and reimbursement of chiropractic services.

Bill· HRH.R. 1623 (98th)open

A bill to modify the insanity defense in the Federal courts.

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983

Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize a verdict of "guilty but insane" for any criminal defendant who raises the issue of insanity by notice as provided by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Provides that a defendant is "guilty but insane" if his actions constitute all necessary elements of the offense charged other than the requisite state of mind. Provides that if the defendant is found "guilty but insane" the court may commit the defendant to serve all or a portion of a sentence in a suitable facility for treatment of his mental condition. Requires the defendant to serve the remaining portion of his sentence upon release from the mental facility.

Bill· HRH.R. 1622 (98th)open

A bill to delay the effective date for the denial of Federal educational assistance to students who have failed to comply with registration requirements under the Military Selective Service Act from July 1, 1983, to July 1, 1984.

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983

Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1983, to delay until July 1, 1984, the effective date for the denial of Federal educational assistance to students who have failed to comply with the registration requirements under the Military Selective Service Act.

Bill· SS. 553 (98th)open

American Defense Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983

American Defense Education Act - Authorizes a national program to provide incentives to local educational agencies to improve: (1) instruction in mathematics, science, and communication skills, foreign languages, and technology; and (2) guidance and counseling. Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Programs - Requires local education agencies which desire to participate in such national program to develop and carry out a program of improvement of instruction and student achievement. Sets forth requirements for such programs. Entitles participating local educational agencies to receive basic payments for each fiscal year equal to two percent of an established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Entitles agencies which show substantial evidence of meeting program goals to an incentive payment equal to an additional two percent of the established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Sets forth formulae for establishing such payment rate. Sets forth requirements for applications for payments. Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to approve applications which meet such requirements. Title II: Teacher Training and Postsecondary Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education for coordination between such institutions and local educational agencies in improving science and mathematics education, through precollege teacher training, development, and recruitment programs. Sets forth requirements for grant proposals and priorities in grant selection. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 for such grants. Title III: Research to Improve Instruction - Directs the Secretary to administer, through the National Institute of Education (NIE) in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, a program to support research and development into effective education in mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and technology. Authorizes appropriations in the Department of Education to be made available to NIE to carry out such educational research program for FY 1985 through 1987. Title IV: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to administer the program and to pay each local educational agency with an approved application the amount to which it is entitled for each fiscal year under title I provisions. Provides for a joint survey and report to Congress by the Secretaries of Defense and Education, for each year from 1984 through 1987, on the academic achievement levels of U.S. 18-year-olds and the personnel training and educational needs of the armed forces.

Bill· HRH.R. 1573 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 10 of the United States Code to allow members of the Armed Forces of the United States to elect whether they will retire for physical disability or will retire for length of service, if they are eligible for both types of retirement.

United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983

Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to allow members of the armed forces eligible for both types of retirement to elect whether they will retire for physical disability or for length of service.

Bill· HRH.R. 1576 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to allow persons receiving retired pay for the length of their service in the Armed Forces of the United States to concurrently receive any pension or compensation under the laws administered by the Veterans' Administration which they are entitled to.

United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983

Permits certain veterans with service-connected disabilities who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either.

Bill· SS. 523 (98th)open

Veterans Diagnostic Services Experiment Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983

Veterans' Diagnostic Services Experiment Act of 1983 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish an experimental program to determine the economic and functional feasibility of furnishing diagnostic health-care services to eligible veterans in a remote area. States that such program shall run from January 1, 1984, through January 1, 1987. Requires the Administrator to enter into a contract with a health-care facility in Aroostook County, Maine, to serve as a diagnostic clinic. Requires the Administrator to establish an advisory committee to advise him on operating procedures and requirements. Directs such committee to report to the Administrator annually. Directs the Administrator to report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees by July 1, 1986, on the operation of the program.

Bill· SS. 496 (98th)referred

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary concerned to transport to the place of burial the remains of a member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay who dies in a military medical facility.

United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1983

Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to transport to the decedent's place of burial the remains of a member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay who dies in a military medical facility.

Bill· HRH.R. 1443 (98th)open

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend by one year the period during which Vietnam-era veterans may request psychological readjustment counseling from the Veterans' Administration and to direct the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out a comprehensive study of the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and related readjustment problems among Vietnam-era veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Extends by one year, from FY 1984 through FY 1985, the period during which Vietnam-era veterans may request psychological readjustment counseling from the Veterans Administration. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to conduct a comprehensive study of the readjustment of Vietnam-era veterans to civilian life. Requires that such study include a nationwide survey of the prevalence and incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder and related readjustment problems among such veterans and a survey of their health status in relation to that of the general population. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress on such study by December 31, 1984.

Bill· HRH.R. 1499 (98th)open

A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide an immediate annuity to National Guard technicians involuntarily separated from civilian employment as a result of loss of National Guard membership, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Entitles a National Guard technician who has completed five years of Federal civilian service to a civil service annuity when he or she is discharged from the National Guard or transferred to the Retired Reserve by reason of having completed the requisite period of service.

Bill· HRH.R. 1500 (98th)referred

Military Selective Service Amendments of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Military Selective Service Amendments of 1983 - Directs the President to resume the registration of individuals pursuant to the Military Selective Service Act. Removes the restriction that only males may be subject to the selective service. 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 1983 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.

Bill· HRH.R. 1446 (98th)referred

A bill to promote cost-savings and efficiency in government by providing for an independent contract study of certain proposed major expenditures before a final decision is made to proceed with such expenditures.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide for an independent analysis by a private contractor of any major new defense system before a final decision is made to procure such system. Requires that the analysis contain conclusions regarding the impact of the proposed defense system on the public sector and other defense programs. Directs the Secretary to give preference to private contractors: (1) who are not (or whose employees do not include significant numbers of) retired military or retired civilian employees of the Department of Defense; and (2) who are not involved in research and development or production of weapons systems. Provides for a seven-member panel to review each proposed contract and determine the suitability of the proposed contractor. Prohibits the Secretary from awarding a contract to other than a contractor approved by the panel.

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