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United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Provides that Army and Air Force National Guard technicians shall not be required to wear the military uniform while performing their duties in a civilian status. (Amends 32 U.S.C. 709(d))
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Extends beyond age 22 under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance), the period during which an individual may be entitled to child's insurance benefits on the basis of full-time student status where such individual was prevented by reason of health, religious service, or service in the Armed Forces (after attaining age 18) from attending school during one or more months prior to attaining age 22.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Removes all limitations on the aggregate period for which a person may receive assistance under two or more of the veterans' education assistance laws. (Repeals 38USC. l795)
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Provides that the retired pay of any member or former member of the Armed Forces who was on active duty or in an active status on or before May 31, 1958, shall be computed at current active duty pay rates and increased to reflect later changes in applicable pay rates.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Provides for the combination of the 11th and 12th Naval Districts. (Amends 10U.S.C. 5221)
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Provides for the establishment of a national cemetery near the Fort Randall Dam, South Dakota. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Veterans' Administration Accountability Act - Modifies those powers exercised by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs with respect to readjustment of the schedule of ratings for the disabilities of veterans. Requires that notice of closing must be given to Congress in writing before the closing of a hospital or domiciliary facility over which the Administrator has direct and exclusive jurisdiction. Prohibits the sale or transfer of Government property under the jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Provides, under the Military Selective Service Act, for reemployment of members and former members of the Armed Forces who were in the employ of a State or of a political subdivision. States that an employee of the United States Postal Service shall be considered an employee of the United States Government for purposes of this Act. (50 App. 459(b)(B))
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
World War I Pension Act - Establishes a monthly pension for qualified World War I veterans of $135 if unmarried and with no children, or $150 if married and living with or contributing to the support of a spouse or with children. Provides an additional monthly payment of $50 if the veteran is permanently homebound, or $125 if he is in need of regular aid and attendance. Provides that no pension shall be paid to a veteran who has income in excess of $3,000 if unmarried or $4,200 if married. Provides that a veteran entitled to another pension shall receive whichever amount is greater. Establishes for widows of qualified World War I veterans a monthly Pension of $100 if there is no child or $125 if there is one child, with an additional $20 for each additional child. Provides that no pension shall be paid if the total annual income of the widow with children exceeds $3,000 or $4,200 in the case of a widow with children. Establishes a monthly pension for the children of qualified World War I veterans when there is no widow. Sets such pension at $45 for the first child and $18 for each additional child. Requires each pension to be equally distributed among the eligible children and makes any child with an annual income, excluding earned income, in excess of $2,000 ineligible for a pension. Exempts increases in Social Security benefits, railroad retirement annuities or pensions, or Federal government employee annuities from the determination of annual income. Gives priority for hospital care to those veterans receiving a pension under the Act. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 513-515; Amends 38 U.S.C. 503, 610)
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973
Provides that the Chief of the Medical Service Corps of the Navy shall be a rear admiral. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 5139)
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973
Revises the definition of "dependent" with respect to a member or former member of a uniformed service by removing the present requirement that the husband or unremarried widower be dependent on the member or former member for over one-half of his support. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1072(2)(c,d)) (Repeals 10 U.S.C. 101(36)) (Amends 37 U.S.C. 401) Provides that a member of a uniformed service may not be paid an increased allowance on account of a dependent for any period (1) during which that dependent is entitled to basic pay or (2) the spouse of such member is being paid an increased allowance on account of that dependent. (Amends 37 U.S.C. 420)
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Provides that under the Military Selective Service Act the States and the political subdivisions thereof are to be considered employers for purposes of the reemployment rights of veterans. States that for purposes of this Act an employee of the United States Postal Service shall be held and considered to be an employee of the United States Government.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to utilize Department of Defense resources for the purpose of providing medical emergency transportation services to civilians. Limits Government and individual liability incident to providing such services.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Provides additional authority for the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to prescribe standards of conduct, and to authorize investigation of, and arrests for, crimes committed, on lands and in buildings under the jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Requires the presentation of full military honors at the burial of veterans. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1489)
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Provides for the treatment of a spinal cord injury or disease of a veteran in a non-Veterans' Administration facility under specified circumstances. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 628)
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Requires an annual authorization from Congress prescribing the maximum number of members of the Armed Forces of the United States that may be deployed in major geographic regions of the world outside the United States. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 133nt)
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army Command and General Staff College under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army to award the degree of master of military art and science upon graduates of the college who have fulfilled specified requirements. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 4314)
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
War Prisoners Retirement Benefits Act - Allows United States military and civilian government employees, who have been held prisoner or who have been missing in action in Southeast Asia, to elect to receive double credit for retirement purposes for the period of confinement or missing status. Requires such individual to claim such credit, if he so desires, within two years after his return to the jurisdiction of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Provides that interest rates under the loan guaranty program for veterans may exceed the interest rates specified under the National Housing Act. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 1803(c)(i))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Veterans' Administration Accountability Act - Modifies those powers exercised by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs with respect to readjustment of the schedule of ratings for the disabilities of veterans. Requires that notice of closing must be given to Congress in writing before the closing of a hospital or domiciliary facility over which the Administrator has direct and exclusive jurisdiction. Prohibits the sale or transfer of Government property under the jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration unless notice of such transfer or sale is first given to congress.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Creates the Military Installation Closing Commission with members from specified Government agencies, the legislative branch, and the private sector. States that the Commission's duties shall be to review and evaluate any decision of the Department of Defense to close any military installation with a view toward determining whether the closing of such installation is in the best interests of national defense, the nation's economy, and military efficiency.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to reimburse employers of veteran trainees for unusual costs incurred in providing on-job training for such veterans. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1504 (c))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Increases the maximum annual income limitation governing payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the parent of a deceased veteran to $5,000, if the parent is an unremarried widow with a child. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4l5 (b) (1))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides that a psychosis developing a 10 percent degree of disability or more within two years after separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service connected. (Amends 38 USC 312)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Authorizes additional training or education for veterans who are no longer eligible for training, in order to restore employability lost due to technological changes. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1503(c))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides that veterans who were prisoners of war for more than 6 months during World War II or the Korean War shall be deemed to have a service-connected disability of 50 percent for purposes of entitlement to veterans' disability compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the widow, children, and parents of deceased veterans who were rated 100 percent disabled by reason of service-connected disabilities for twenty or more years. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 410(a))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Makes the children of veterans having a service-connected disability rated at not less than 50 percent eligible for benefits under the war orphans' educational assistance program. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1701(a)(1),1742; Add 380 U.S.C. 1732(d))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis developing a 10 percent or more degree of disability within seven years after a veteran's separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service-connected. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 312 (4))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Extends wartime benefits to veterans who served in the Armed Forces between February 1, 1955, and August 5, 1964. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 101(29))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Extends the maximum educational benefits for veterans to forty-eight months. Allows additional educational benefits for wives and widows of veterans. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1711(a), 1795)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Authorizes the reimbursement for hospital care or medical service for any disability of a veteran who has a total service-connected disability permanent in nature. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 628)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may furnish medical services for a non-service-connected disability to any war veteran who has a disability rated at 50 percent or more resulting from a service-connected disability. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 612(b)(3))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides for the deferral or cancellation of repayment of student loans under the National Defense Education Act and the Higher Education Act of 1965, for persons held as prisoners of war. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to pay to holders of such loans appropriate amounts due.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Veterans Health Care Expansion Act - Title I: Hospital, Domicilliary, and Medical Care Benefits - Extends the definition of "private facilities" for which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs contracts in order to provide hospital care to include facilities for the wife or child of a veteran who has a total disability, permanent in nature, resulting from a service connected disability, and the widow or child of a veteran who died from such a disability. Includes in the term "hospital care" mental health services, consultation, professional counseling, and training of a veteran or dependent, or survivor if the veteran has no dependents, as may be necessary or appropriate to the effective treatment and rehabilitation of such individual. Adds home health services which the Administrator deems appropriate for the effective and economical treatment of a disability of a veteran, or dependent, or survivor, to the definition of the term "medical services." Extends to all veterans hospital or nursing home care if such veteran is unable to defray the expenses of the necessary care. Allows the Administrator to furnish hospital or nursing home care to the wife or child of a veteran who has a total disability, permanent in nature from a service connected disability, and the widow or child of a veteran who died from such a disability. Permits the Administrator to furnish medical services for any disability on an outpatient or ambulatory basis to persons already described in this act and to any veteran who has a service connected disability rated at eighty percent or more. Authorizes the Administrator, under such regulations as he might prescribe, to reimburse veterans entitled to hospital care as medical services for the reasonable value of such care or services for which such veterans have made payment from sources other than the Veterans' Administration. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 628) Authorizes the President to assist the Republic of the Philippines in providing medical care and treatment for Commonwealth Army veterans and new Philippine Scouts under certain conditions. (Amend 38 U.S.C. 631) Provides that the President may authorize the Administrator to enter into a contract with the Veterans Memorial Hospital, with the approval of the appropriate department of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines under which the United States: (1) will pay for hospital care in the Republic of the Philippines, or for medical services which shall be provided either in Veterans' Administration facilities, or by contract, or otherwise, by the Administrator in accordance with the conditions and limitations applicable generally to beneficiaries under this title, for Commonwealth Army veterans determined by the Administrator to be in need of such hospital care or medical services for service-connected disabilities; (2) will pay for hospital care at the Veterans Memorial Hospital for Commonwealth Army veterans determined by the Administrator to need such care for non-service-connected disabilities if they are unable to defray the expenses of necessary hospital care; and (3) will pay for hospital care, determined by the Administrator to be necessary, at the Veterans Memorial Hospital for new Philippine Scouts for service-connected disabilities and for non-service-connected disabilities, if they are unable to defray the expenses of necessary hospital care. Provides that the total of the payments authorized shall not exceed $2,000,000 for any one fiscal year ending before 1978. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year ending with fiscal year 1978, $100,000 to be used for the education and training of health service personnel at the hospital, and for the upgrading of equipment and in rehabilitating the physical plant and facilities of such hospital. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 632) Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a comprehensive program providing sickle cell anemia screening, counseling, and treatment and to carry out research and research training in the diagnosis, treatment, and control of sickle cell anemia based upon such screening examinations and treatment. Requires the Administrator to include such information in his annual report to Congress. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 651-654) Title II: Amendments to Chapter 73 of Title 38, United States Code Relating to the Department of Medicine and Surgery - Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a major program of recruitment training, and employment of veterans with various medical military occupation specialties in order to provide a complete medical and hospital service for the medical care and treatment of veterans and to assist in providing an adequate supply of health manpower to the nation. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4101(b)) Establishes pay schedules for Assistant Chief Medical Directors, physicians and dentists, and nurses. Provides criteria on which nurses are to receive additional compensation. Enumerates restrictions on physicians, dentists, and nurses, including requirements that no such person may: (1) assume responsibility for the medical care of any patient other than a patient admitted for treatment at a Veterans' Administration facility, except in those cases where the individual, upon request and with the approval of the Chief Medical Director, assumes such responsibilities to assist communities or medical practice groups to meet medical needs which would not otherwise be available for a period not to exceed one hundred and eighty calendar days, which may be extended by the Chief Medical Director for additional periods not to exceed one hundred and eighty calendar days each; (2) teach or provide consultative services at any affiliated institution if such teaching or consultation will, because of its nature or duration, conflict with his responsibilities under this title; and (3) perform, in the course carrying out his responsibilities under this title, professional services for the purpose of generating money for any fund or account which is maintained by an affiliated institution for the benefit of such institution, or for his personal benefit, or both. Provides that temporary full-time appointments of personnel, other than physicians, dentists, and nurses, shall not exceed one year. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4114(a)(3)(A)) Provides that the Administrator may contract with one or more hospitals, medical schools, or medical installations having hospital facilities and participating with the Veterans' Administration in the training of interns or residents to provide for the central administration of stipend payments, provision of fringe benefits, and maintenance of records for such interns and residents by the designation of one such institution to serve as a central administrative agency for this purpose. Permits the Administrator to pay to such designated agency, without regard to any other law or regulation governing the expenditure of Government moneys either in advance or in arrears, all amount to cover the costs for the period such intern or resident serves in a Veterans' Administration hospital. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 4114(b) (2)) Title III: Amendments to Chapter 81 of Title 38, United States Code _ Acquisition and Operation of Hospital and Domicilliary Facilities; Procurement and Supply - Requires the Administrator to provide for no less than an average of 98,500 operating beds in Veterans' Administration Hospitals and to maintain an average daily patient census in such beds of no less than 85,500 in any fiscal year. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and operate not less than eight thousand beds for the furnishing of nursing home care to eligible veterans over which the Administrator has direct and exclusive jurisdiction. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 5001(a)) Requires the Administrator to appoint an Advisory Committee on Structural Safety of Veterans' Administration Facilities to advise him on all matters of structural safety in the construction and remodeling of Veterans' Administration facilities. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 5001(b)) Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments to Title 38 United States Code - Specifies certain miscellaneous amendments to title 38 of the United States Code. Title V: Effective Dates - Specifies the dates on which the provisions of this Act shall become effective.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides a three-year presumptive period of service connection of malignant tumors of cancer which develops within three years from the date of a veteran's separation from active service. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 312 (6))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides that a single break in the continuity of a veteran's total disability rating, for a period of less than one year, followed by restoration to the same or higher disability rating, shall not be considered as disrupting the running of the twenty-year period, for purposes of disability compensation. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 110)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
To amend title 38, United States Code, to stabilize and "freeze" as of January 1, 1973, the Veterans' Administration Schedule for Rating Disabilities, 1945 edition, and the extension thereto.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Expands the authority of the Veterans' Administration to make direct loans to veterans for housing where private capital is unavailable at the statutory interest rate. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1811)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Uniformed Services Retired and Retainer Pay Equalization Act - Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a member or former member of the uniformed service who is entitled to retired or retainer pay in effect after September 30, 1949, and before January 1, 1973, is entitled to have that pay recomputed under the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, l973. Lists provisions for such recomputation.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a national cemetery at Camp Parks or Port Chicago, California, for northern California.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides that Vietnam era veterans shall have the same basic entitlement to vocational rehabilitation as that available to veterans of World War II and the Korean conflict. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1502)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Increases the period of presumption of service connection for cases of multiple sclerosis from seven to ten years after a veteran's separation from the Armed Forces. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 312 (a) (4))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides that a veteran's hypertension developing a 10 percent or more degree of disability within two years after separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service-connected for purposes of disability compensation. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 312(6))
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides that veterans with disabilities rated 10 through 100 percent shall receive additional compensation for dependents in specified amounts. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 315)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Creates, within the Department of Labor, the Veterans' Employment Service, to be headed by the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to assign to each State a Federal veterans' employment representative to assist in job counseling for veterans, to provide employment services, and to help improve working conditions, particularly in regard to disabled veterans. Transfers the duties and responsibilities of the Secretary of Labor in the areas of veterans' job counseling and placement to the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 2002-05)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Declares that, in the selection of persons to participate in federally assisted manpower training programs and to occupy public service jobs, Vietnam veterans shall have priority. Provides that first priority shall be given to Vietnam veterans who have served in a combat zone; second priority to other Vietnam veterans. Sets forth the definition of the terms "veteran", "combat zone", and "Vietnam era". (Amends 42 U.S.C. 2617)
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1973
Permits service-connected and non-service-connected veterans' benefits to be paid for the month in which a veteran dies. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 3012 (b))
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1973
Changes the method of computing retired pay of various enlisted members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 3925 (a))