Defence

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize medical and dental care and related benefits for reservists and members of the National Guard who contract a disease or become ill while on duty for thirty days or less, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Entitles to specified medical and dental benefits members of the uniformed services or the National Guard who become ill in the line of duty while on active duty for a period of 30 days or less, or who become ill while on full-time training duty or inactive-duty training when such illness is incurred or aggravated as an incident of such training.

A bill to clarify the status of members of the National Guard performing certain training or duty.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Prescribes when active duty for members of the National Guard includes training or certain specified duty.

A bill to establish the Veterans' Administration as an executive department.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

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 of Veterans Affairs as the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.

A bill to amend title 10, 32, and 37, United States Code, to authorize medical and dental care, and related benefits for reservists and members of the National Guard under certain conditions, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Entitles specified members of the National Guard, or of a uniformed service on inactive duty training, to the same medical and dental benefits as a member of a uniformed service on active duty.

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize additional medical and dental care for dependents of reservists and members of the National Guard, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Entitles to specified medical and dental care dependents of deceased members of the armed forces reserves or of the National Guard who have died under specified circumstances.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to permit the next of kin of a deceased veteran to designate the style of flag to be furnished at the burial of such veteran.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Permits the next of kin of a deceased veteran to designate the style of flag, draped or mounted, to be furnished at the burial of such veteran.

A bill to amend section 902 of title 38, United States Code, to extend eligibility for burial allowance to certain additional veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983

Extends burial benefits to specified veterans with service-connected disabilities (formerly provided until October 1, 1981).

Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Veterans' Education Assistance Act of 1983 - Establishes a new educational assistance program for the all-volunteer force. Excludes graduates of service academies from eligibility for such assistance. Entitles veterans who are graduates of a secondary school and who have served in the armed forces on continuous active duty for at least three years to basic educational assistance. Entitles veterans of the Selected Reserve who are graduates of secondary school and who have served at least two years of continuous active duty in the armed forces and at least four years of continuous duty in the Selected Reserve to basic educational assistance. Sets forth the formula for determining the length of such assistance based on the length of time served. Entitles such veterans to a monthly assistance allowance of $200 for a full-time approved program of education. Permits the Secretary concerned to establish a higher rate of assistance, but not more than $400 a month, for individuals possessing a skill or specialty designated as being in critical shortage. Permits enrollment, if eligible, in a program of education while an individual continues to perform his duties. Entitles veterans who have served five or more consecutive years of active duty in addition to those required for basic educational assistance to supplemental educational assistance. Entitles veterans of the Selected Reserve who have served two or more consecutive years of active duty and four or more consecutive years of duty in the reserves in addition to that required for basic educational assistance to supplemental educational assistance. Entitles such veterans to a monthly supplemental assistance allowance of $100 a month. Permits the provision of assistance at a higher rate, but not more than $300 monthly, to any individual entitled to basic educational assistance who has a skill or specialty in which there is a critical shortage of personnel. Permits the Secretary of Defense to authorize specified individuals to transfer to a dependent part or all of such individuals' entitlement to educational assistance. Sets forth the conditions under which transferred benefits may be provided. Establishes a ten year delimiting period for educational assistance. Excludes time spent as a prisoner of war subsequent to discharges and time spent physically or mentally disabled. Limits educational assistance to individuals being furnished subsistence to the amount an institution would charge similarly circumstanced nonveterans. Prohibits participation in more than one program of educational assistance. Allocates the administration and costs of such programs to the Veterans Administration, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund. Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator to submit to Congress a biennial report on the operations of such programs. Amends the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1977 to terminate the right to enroll in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program after December 31, 1981. Directs (rather than permits) the Secretary of each military department to establish a program to provide educational assistance to members of the Selected Reserve who agree to remain in such Reserve for at least six years. Sets forth the amount of such assistance. Requires that such assistance be given for pre-degree work at an institution of higher learning. Sets forth further eligibility requirements for such assistance. Establishes a delimiting period of ten years from the date of entitlement or from the date of separation from service, whichever comes first. Prohibits the provision of assistance to any member already receiving assistance as a member of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program or a member who fails to perform satisfactorily in training. Expands the penalties for failure to participate satisfactorily in such program to include orders to active duty. Designates the Veterans Administration to administer such program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress annually rather than quarterly on its operation. Establishes in the Treasury a Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund to be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury for the accumulation of funds to finance Department education liabilities on an actuarially sound basis. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer amounts from the Fund to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs and to the Secretary of Defense as necessary to make required payments. Establishes in the Department of Defense a Department of Defense Education Benefits Board of Actuaries to: (1) report annually to the Secretary on the actuarial status of the Fund; (2) report not less than every four years to Congress and the President on the valuations and status of the fund; and (3) determine the present value of future benefits payable from the Fund. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make periodic actuarial valuations of the educational programs; (2) determine an amortization methodology and schedule for the liquidation of gains or losses to the Fund; and (3) determine the amount necessary to be appropriated for the Fund for each fiscal year. Sets forth other terms and conditions for administering such Fund. Permits the Secretary concerned to grant an eligible member a leave of absence of not more than two years for such member to pursue a program of education. Sets forth the terms and conditions for such leave. Requires the Secretary concerned to provide individual predischarge counseling which includes a discussion of educational benefit entitlements.

World War I Veterans Special Pension Program Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

World War I Veterans Special Pension Program Act of 1983 - 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.

A bill to amend subchapter II of chapter 73 of title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the social security offset against annuities provided for under such subchapter to the extent that the social security benefits of the annuitant are based on the annuitant's own employment.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Eliminates the social security offset against annuities provided under the Survivor Benefit Plan of the armed service when the benefits received are based on the annuitant's own employment.

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize an alternative to the conventional construction of military family housing within the United States, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Permits the Secretary of Defense to lease rather than construct specifically authorized family housing projects within the United States, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Requires that the Armed Services Committees be given 30 days notice of any lease in excess of $250,000 annual rental.

A bill to provide that any award by the Veterans' Administration of compensation for a disease or disability in a veteran resulting from exposure to Agent Orange shall be retroactive to the date the veteran first applied to the Veterans' Administration for compensation for such disease of disability.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Makes an award of disability compensation for service-connected disease or disability incurred or aggravated by exposure to Agent Orange retroactive to the date of the veterans' initial application.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the pension program for survivors of periods of war.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Increases the survivors' benefits for surviving spouses and children of veterans of a period of war.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Veterans' Administration to provide hospital and medical care to certain former members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Authorizes veterans' hospital and medical care for World War I or II members of the Canadian Armed Forces who: (1) have resided in the United States ten years or longer; and (2) are not receiving or are not eligible for equivalent Canadian veterans' benefits.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum pension payable to certain hospitalized veterans from $60 to $75.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

Increases from $60 to $75 the amount of military pension a veteran without dependents being furnished domiciliary care by the Veterans Administration may receive.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a presumption that the disease of syringomyelia developing in a veteran within seven years from the veteran's discharge or release from active duty is service-connected.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

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.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for additional compensation for any veteran who as suffered the service-connected loss or loss of use of one lung or one kidney.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1983

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.

A bill to modify the insanity defense in the Federal courts, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a defense to a Federal prosecution that the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct. Places the burden of providing insanity on the defendant. Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty by reason of insanity." Prohibits witnesses from offering opinions on whether the defendant lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.

A bill to provide for the establishment of a new national cemetery in the State of Florida.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to acquire the necessary land and establish a national cemetery in Florida.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to consider the number of veterans residing in each State, and the projected changes in the number of veterans residing in each State, in acquiring and operating medical facilities.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to consider the current and projected number of veterans residing in each State when deciding where medical facilities should be constructed or acquired. Directs the Chief Medical Director to determine, at the end of each fiscal year, the current and projected number of veterans residing in each State. Requires the Director to report such information to the appropriate committees and to consider it when making recommendations for the apportionment of funds.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase from 50 to 60 the number of associate members of the Board of Veterans' Appeals in the Veterans' Administration.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Increases from 50 to 60 the maximum number of associate members of the Board of Veterans' Appeals in the Veterans Administration.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the time period in which a veteran has to use his educational benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Repeals certain veterans' education provisions requiring the use of such benefits within ten years of eligibility (the delimiting period).

A bill to authorize a new Veterans' Administration hospital in the State of Florida.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Directs the Administrator of Veterans affairs to construct a hospital in Florida. Authorizes appropriations.

A joint resolution urging the United States Postal Service to provide and sell a postage stamp issue to honor all American servicemen and civilians still unaccounted for as a result of the conflict in Indochina.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

Directs the United States Postal Service to provide and sell a postage stamp to honor all American servicemen and civilians still unaccounted for as a result of the conflict in Indochina. Provides that such postage stamp shall be of such denomination, and shall be sold for such a time, as the United States Postal Service shall determine.

A concurrent resolution calling upon the Veterans' Administration and the Congress to implement as expeditiously as possible the recommendations of the study by the Veterans' Administration entitled "A Thirty Year Study of the Needs of Veterans in Florida".

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1983

States that the Administrator of Veterans Affairs should implement as quickly as possible the recommendations of "A Thirty Year Study of the Needs of Veterans in Florida" concerning the health needs of veterans.

A bill to modify the insanity defense in the Federal courts, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a defense to a Federal prosecution that at the time of the offense the defendant, as a result of a mental disease or defect, did not understand the wrongfulness of his conduct. Places the burden of proof of insanity on the defendant. Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty only by reason of insanity." Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to prohibit expert witnesses from offering opinions on the issue of the insanity of the defendant. Provides for an initial screening examination to determine whether there is reasonable cause to believe that the defendant lacks competence. Allows for a more thorough examination of the defendant if the initial results suggest incompetence. Requires a hearing on the issue of competence and further examination on the issue of the likelihood of the defendant's recovery. Allows for appropriate treatment if necessary. Requires in-patient treatment only when the defendant is dangerous, likely to flee, or in custody. Transfers to State officials for State civil commitment certain defendants who have received the maximum treatment under this section or are found incompetent with no substantial probability of improvement. Allows a person serving a sentence of imprisonment to be transferred to a mental institution upon a showing of clear and convincing evidence that the prisoner is in need of treatment. Establishes Federal commitment procedures for persons found "not guilty only by reason of insanity". Provides for a special examination of violent offenders in order to determine their dangerousness. Requires a board of examiners for every Federal penal and correctional institution which shall examine prisoners about whom there is probable cause to believe competence at trial was lacking even though the issue was not raised and determined. Requires the district court concerned to vacate conviction and order a new trial for any prisoner about whom such a board certifies that such probable cause does exist.

A bill to repeal the provision of the Military Selective Service Act prohibiting the furnishing of Federal financial assistance for post-secondary education to persons who have not complied with the registration requirement under the Act.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

Amends the Military Selective Service Act to repeal the prohibition against providing student loans for persons who were required to but have not registered under such Act.

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to waive contributions to the military Survivor Benefit Plan in the case of certain persons whose military retired pay is reduced because of an offsetting increase in compensation paid to such persons by the Veteran's Administration due to an increase in disability rating.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

Amends the Survivor Benefit Plan to waive contributions by certain veterans whose military pension is reduced because of an increase in disability compensation.

A joint resolution with respect to conventional arms transfer limitations.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

States that the United States should reaffirm a commitment to self-restraint with respect to selective conventional arms transfers to developing nations. States that the United States and the Soviet Union should resume conventional arms transfer talks. States that the United States should begin discussions to limit arms transfers by the free world arms supplying nations and other nations selling conventional weapons.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the role of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1983

Expresses the sense of Congress that the Administrator of Veterans Affairs should be a member of and full participant in all activities of the Cabinet.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Administrator of the Veterans' Administration to consider the number of veterans residing in each State and projected changes in the number of veterans residing in each State in acquiring and operating medical facilities, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983

Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to consider the current and projected number of veterans residing in each State when deciding where medical facilities should be constructed or acquired. Directs the Chief Medical Director at the end of each fiscal year to determine the current and projected number of veterans residing in each State. Requires the Director to report such information to the appropriate congressional committees and to consider it when making recommendations for the apportionment of funds.

Air Force Family Housing Build-Lease Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983

Air Force Family Housing Build - Lease Act of 1983 - Permits the Secretary of the Air Force to lease housing facilities for assignment without charge to specified members of the armed forces. Limits such leases as to length, number, number of locations, and per unit monthly cost. Requires the Secretary to give the Armed Services Committees 21 days notice of any such contract.

A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate April 23, 1983, as "Army Reserve Day".

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983

Authorizes and requests the President to designate April 23, 1983, as Army Reserve Day.

A bill to amend title 14, United States Code, to provide for selective pre-appointment travel to the Coast Guard Academy for cadet applicants.

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983

Authorizes the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating to expend funds for orientation visits to the Academy by cadet applicants.

Insanity Defense Limitation Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1983

Insanity Defense Limitation Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it an affirmative defense to a Federal prosecution that the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked the ability to understand the nature and quality of the act or lacked the ability to distinguish right and wrong with respect to the act. Places the burden of proof of insanity on the defendant. Requires that any person found not guilty only by reason of insanity be committed to a facility until eligible for release. Requires the court to commit such person to the custody of the Attorney General upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the person is currently suffering from a mental disease or defect and his release would create a substantial danger to himself or herself or another person or serious damage to the property of another. Directs the Attorney General to release such person to a mental hospital or other suitable facility. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create a substantial danger. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered. Provides for a special verdict of "guilty but mentally ill." Directs the Attorney General to take action to assure that a person found guilty but mentally ill receives appropriate treatment for any mental illness occurring during the term of such sentence.

Vincent Puritano, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Jack R. Borsting, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 2 February 1983

Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Relief Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Relief Act - Establishes a presumption of service-connected disability for veterans exposed to phenoxy herbicides during service who suffer from a disease which may be caused by exposure to such herbicides, developed to a 20 percent degree of disability. Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to determine what diseases may be due to exposure to phenoxy herbicides. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations within 90 days of enactment incorporating such determinations and setting forth the conditions of service during the Vietnam era required to establish exposure.

A concurrent resolution calling upon the Government of the United Kingdom to outlaw the Ulster Defense Association, its membership, activities, and any like terrorist organization.

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

Condemns all acts of violence in Northern Ireland. Calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom to outlaw the Ulster Defense Association and any like terrorist organization.

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

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

Amends Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to require a defendant to give notice if he intends to introduce expert testimony which bears on the issue of whether he had the state of mind required for an offense charged. Amends the Federal criminal code to eliminate "insanity" as a defense to a prosecution under any Federal statute. Excludes from the definition of "mental disease or defect" an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or other anti-social conduct. Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty solely by reason of inability, because of mental disease or defect, to have had the state of mind required as an element of the offense charged." Requires any person acquitted because of such mental disease or defect to be committed to the custody of the Attorney General if found by clear and convincing evidence to be presently suffering from mental disease or defect. Directs the Attorney General to release such person to a State which will assume responsibility for his custody and treatment or otherwise to hospitalize such person in a suitable facility. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create a substantial danger to himself or the person or property of another. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered.

Military Retirement Funding Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1983

Military Retirement Funding Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund to be used for the accumulation of funds to finance on an actuarially sound basis the military pension and survivor benefit programs. Establishes in the Department of Defense a Department of Defense Retirement Board of Actuaries to: (1) review valuations of the Fund; (2) make annual reports to the Secretary of Defense on the actuarial status of the Fund; and (3) report at least quadrenially to the President and Congress on the status of the Fund. Directs the Board to determine present value of future benefits not later than six months after the Board's appointment. Requires the Board to determine an amortization schedule for the liquidation of the original unfunded liability. Requires the Secretary to determine the amount of Department contributions to the Fund on an annual basis for inclusion in budget requests for the following fiscal year. Directs the President to include the full amount in the budget transmitted to Congress. Directs the Secretary to actuarially value the military pension and survivors' benefits programs at least quadrenially. Requires the Secretary to amortize changes in benefits since the last valuation. Directs the Secretary to make monthly payments to the Fund in specified amounts . Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make annual payments, at the beginning of the fiscal year. Requires the Secretary of Defense to certify to the Secretary of the Treasury each year the amounts under the amortization schedules. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to invest certain portions of the Fund in public debt securities.

A bill entitled "The Department of Defense Civilian Air Traffic Controllers Act of 1983".

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983

Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to pay an employee training to be an air traffic controller at the employee's basic pay rate for training hours exceeding 40 hours a week. Prohibits the reduction or termination of the annuity or retired or retainer pay of a civil service annuitant or a former member of the uniformed service who is temporarily reemployed by the Department of Defense to serve as an air traffic controller or to recruit or train others to be controllers during a period when there is an unusual shortage of controllers. Permits the Secretary to pay premium pay to: (1) certain employees directly involved in the operation and maintenance of the air traffic control system; (2) specified flight test pilots; (3) certain controllers who are not required to be certified to perform duties, including the control of air traffic, but who are so certified; (4) controllers assigned to provide on-the-job training in the control of live air traffic; and (5) any controller or flight service training specialist required to work the fourth through sixth hours of an eight-hour day without a meal break. Exempts such employees from provisions limiting premium pay for Federal employees.

Military Career Enlisted Pay Adjustment Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983

Military Career Enlisted Pay Adjustment Act of 1983 - Increases by specified percentages the monthly basic pay of enlisted members of the uniformed services serving in pay grades E-4 through E-9.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish in the Veterans' Administration an Advisory Committee on Women Veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983

Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish an Advisory Committee on Women Veterans to advise the Administrator or on the administration of benefits for and needs of women veterans. Directs Committee to report annually to the Administrator on the activities of the Veterans Administration pertaining to women, together with assessments of needs and recommendations for future action. Directs the Administrator to submit such report to Congress.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to waive the one-year limitation on claims for compensation from the Veterans' Administration for disabilities and diseases incurred in or aggravated by military service in the case of claims by veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era for compensation for disabilities resulting from exposure to the phenoxy herbicide known as agent orange or other phenoxy herbicides.

United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1983

Establishes a presumption of service-connected disability caused by exposure to a phenoxy herbicide (Agent Orange) for veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era. Waives the one-year limitation on claims for compensation for such disabilities.

A bill to amend title 18 to limit the insanity defense and to establish a verdict of not guilty only by reason of insanity.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983

Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a defense to a Federal prosecution that the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked the state of mind required as an element of the offense (current law contains no statutory insanity defense). Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty only by reason of insanity" for any criminal defendant who raises the issue of insanity by notice as provided by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Requires that any person found not guilty only by reason of insanity be committed to a facility until eligible for release. Requires the court to commit such person to the custody of the Attorney General upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that the person is currently suffering from a mental disease or defect and his release would create a significant risk of bodily injury to another person or serious damage to property of another. Directs the Attorney General to release such person to a State which will assume responsibility for his custody and treatment or otherwise to hospitalize such person in a suitable facility. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create significant risk of injury or property damage. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered. Provides for the hospitalization of convicted persons who are found to suffer from mental disease or defect.

Uniformed Services Pay Adjustment Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983

Uniformed Services Pay Adjustment Act of 1983 - Increases by four percent the monthly basic pay of certain members of the uniformed services.

A bill for the relief of certain natives of the Philippines who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1983

Provides for the issuance of immigrant visas to aliens who are natives of the Philippines (and their families) who served with and were honorably discharged from the United States Armed Forces in World War II, whenever such visas are not otherwise available under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Exempts such aliens from certain visa fees. Provides that such aliens in the United States on a nonimmigrant visa, after enactment of this Act, may have their status adjusted to that of an immigrant, and that such status adjustment shall be made without regard to certain foreign residency requirements.

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 · 31 January 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.

A bill to provide for the disposal of silver from the National Defense Stockpile through the issuance of silver coins.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue coins of the United States in two specified series in quantities necessary to meet public demand. Directs the Secretary to sell such coins directly to the public and to numismatic coin dealers and retailers for resale to the public at not less than the fair market value of their silver content on the day before the sale, plus the costs of minting, distributing, promoting, and marketing the coins. Requires deposit of the net proceeds of such sales in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund after the deduction of costs incurred by the Secretary. Limits the aggregate amount of silver in the National Defense Stockpile which may be used to mint the two specified coin series. Declares that disposals of silver from the National Defense Stockpile shall be conducted during calendar years 1984, 1985 and 1986.

A bill to provide for the disposal of silver from the national defense stockpile through the issuance of a special series of bonds which may be redeemed for silver, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983

Amends the Second Liberty Bond Act to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to issue United States silver bonds. Requires the deposit of the net proceeds of any such bonds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund solely for the acquisition of strategic and critical materials. Requires any payment of interest, or any payment at redemption, to be paid in silver, or the current dollar equivalent, except that any payment of silver shall be out of the silver stockpile.