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Bill· SS. 1576 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1973
Includes as creditable service for purposes of civil service retirement periods of service performed in nonappropriated fund instrumentalities of the Armed Forces. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8332 (b))
Bill· SS. 1575 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1973
Provides for a special monthly payment to veterans who have lost a kidney as the result of a service-connected disability. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314 (k))
Bill· SS. 1554 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to utilize Department of Defense resources for the purpose of providing medical emergency transportation services to civilians. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 2635)
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 98 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Makes it the sense of the Senate that the Civil Aeronautics Board should authorize commercial airlines to provide free air transportation for the former Prisoners of War and their families to and from Dallas, Texas, on June 1, 2, and 3, 1973, for their participation in ceremonies honoring the veterans of the Vietnam War.
Bill· HRH.R. 6935 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Veterans Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Act - Defines "disability" for purposes of hospital, domicilary and medical care for veterans so as to include alcoholism and drug dependence. Makes veterans with undesirable or bad conduct discharges generally eligible for veterans assistance care and makes such care available to those discharged as conscientious objectors, for refusing to obey a lawful order, for desertion, or on resignation from officer status, which discharge the Administrator determines is a product of any disability incurred during services. Defines the term "rehabilitative services" so as to include such services as professional counseling, educational and vocational guidance, education, training and job referral and placement and such other intensive, skilled services applied, on an inpatient or out-patient basis, over a protracted period as may be necessary to assist the individual disabled veteran to achieve maximum utilization of his potential and to return, as soon and as completely as practicable, to his or her family and community as a productive, self-respecting, and self-sustaining member of society. Extends the presumption of service-connected active psychoses to three years and provides that this section shall cover "neuroses" and "personality of character disorders." Provides for special medical treatments and rehabilitation services for alcoholism, drug dependence, and alcohol and drug abuse disabilities for any veteran regardless of the nature of his discharge. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to furnish the most comprehensive treatment and rehabilitative services for such disabilities of a new veteran, regardless of the nature of his discharge or of any determination of service-connected. Provides that the treatment and rehabilitation shall be provided in VA facilities or other Government facilities (Public Health Service or Department of Defense). Provides that when Federal facilities are not available, the Administrator is required to contract with community facilities with special priority, wherever feasible, for community-based multiple modality treatment programs utilizing former addict counselors and stressing outreach efforts to identify and counsel veterans eligible for treatment and rehabilitation under the Act. Directs the Administrator to use all available resources in an outreach effort aimed at attracting into treatment addicted veterans eligible for treatment and rehabilitation under the Act. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into personal services contracts or employ directly former addict veterans to work as counselors in treatment and rehabilitation programs. Authorizes the Administrator to do so without regard to the classification laws and regulations of the Civil Service. Establishes an entitlement to the full benefits of the vocational rehabilitation program under chapter 31 of title 38 of the U.S. Code for veterans accepting treatment and rehabilitation under the Act but only for so long as the veteran countinues to receive such treatment and rehabilitation and for up to one year after he is discharged from the rehabilitation program as recovered. Authorizes the Administrator to arrange for training facilities for vocational rehabilitation trainees in all the following ways: by utilizing and extending VA facilities and those of any other Federal or joint Federal-State agency; by contracting with public or private institutions or establishments for additional suitable facilities; and by cooperating with and utilizing other governmental and State employment agencies for job referral and placement. Provides that each such veteran receive for a maximum of 36 months all necessary counseling, training, and education and a subsistence allowance during the period of treatment and rehabilitation and for up to one year after he is discharged from the rehabilitation program as recovered. Provides that participation in this program will not affect any other rights and interests of a veteran. Directs that a veteran with less than an honorable discharge who has received treatment and rehabilitation under the Act and who the Administrator finds has been successfully recovered for at least one year after his discharge from the rehabilitation program will be deemed as a matter of law to have been discharged from the Armed Forces under honorable conditions for the purpose of establishing eligibility for all title 38 Veterans Administration benefits. Requires the Administrator to offer alternative modalities of treatment under this Act to each veteran depending upon his individual needs. Requires that funds for the VA treatment and rehabilitation program for alcoholism, drug dependence, or alcohol or drug abuse disabilities be set forth in a line item in the VA budget estimate. Provides for the transfer, subject to reimbursement to the VA, to VA hospitals of active military, naval or air servicemen during their tours of duty for treatment pursuant to the Act under terms agreed upon between the Administrator and the Service Secretaries. Requires the Administrator to make periodic progress reports to the appropriate "Service" Secretary on treatment of servicemen transferred to the VA under this Act and to return such servicemen to the appropriate Secretary when the servicemen refuse to cooperate or treatment would otherwise be of not further benefit.
Bill· HRH.R. 6969 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides for the establishment of a national cemetery in the State of Nevada. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6953 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall reimburse any eligible Vietnam veteran enrolled in a full-time or part-time course of education or training for costs incurred by such veteran for tuition, for laboratory, library, health, infirmary, and other similar fees, and for expenses incurred for books, supplies, equipment, and other necessary expenses, exclusive of board, lodging, other living expenses, and travel, as are generally required for the successful pursuit and completion of the course of education or training in which such veteran is enrolled. States that in no event shall payment made to an eligible Vietnam veteran under this section for any expense incurred by such veteran exceed the customary amount paid by other students in the same institution for the same service, privilege, material, or equipment; and in no event shall the total payments made to or on behalf of any veteran under this subsection exceed $3,000 for an ordinary school year, unless the veteran elects to have such customary charges paid in excess of such limitation, in which event there shall be charged against his period of eligibility the portion of an ordinary school year which such excess bears to $3,000.
Bill· HRH.R. 6949 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides that where any veteran having neither wife nor child is being furnished hospital treatment, institutional, or domiciliary care by the Veterans' Administration, no pension in excess of $40 per month shall be paid to or for the veteran for any period after (a) the end of the second full calendar month of admission for treatment or care or (b) readmission for treatment or care within six months following termination of a period of treatment or care of not less than two full calendar months. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 3203(d)(1))
Bill· HRH.R. 6954 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Increases to seventy-five percent the amount of a loan for the purchase of business property by a veteran which will be automatically guaranteed by the Government. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1803)
Bill· HRH.R. 6945 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides an annual clothing allowance of $300 to veterans who, because of a service-connected disability, wear a prosthetic appliance or appliances which tends to wear out or tear their clothing.
Bill· HRH.R. 6950 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides educational assistance at the secondary school level to eligible widows and wives of veterans, without charge to any period of entitlement the wife or widow may have pursuant to present law. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1726)
Bill· HRH.R. 6967 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides for the construction of a Veterans' Administration hospital in the State of Nevada. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6941 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides that for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act, physicians and dentists appointed in the Medical or Dental Service of the Department of Medicine and Surgery who have served therein for not less than ten years shall have included in their years of creditable service four years, and, in the case of a member of the Medical Service, who has completed one year of medical internship or the equivalent thereof, one additional year, the four years and the one year to be reduced by the period of active military, naval, or air service performed during such person's attendance at medical school or dental school or during his medical internship. Provides that each physician, dentist, or nurse in the Department of Medicine and Surgery who has completed ten years of service in such Department shall be granted leave with pay, under such regulations as the Administrator may prescribe, for not more than one year for study in his specialty; and thereafter shall be granted leave with pay for such purpose upon the completion of each additional ten years of such service (disregarding time spent on leave pursuant to this section in the computation of such ten years).
Bill· HRH.R. 6946 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Mustering-Out Payment Act - Provides that each member of the Armed Forces who served on active duty during the Vietnam era and was engaged in: (1) armed conflict; (2) extrahazardous service, including such service under conditions simulating war; or (3) in direct support of such operations, and who is discharged or released from active duty under honorable conditions, shall, subject to the provisions of this chapter, be eligible to receive mustering-out payments of $300, $200, or $100, depending on the place and length of service. Specifies members of the armed forces ineligible for such payment because of severance or retired pay, type of service, or pay grade. Requires applications for mustering-out payments to be made within two years of the enactment of this Act. Authorizes payments to surviving spouses, children, or parents of deceased members of the Armed forces.
Bill· HRH.R. 6937 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides that when a veteran is supplied with drugs from the Veteran's Administration, the Administrator shall permit such veteran to determine whether: (1) such drugs or medicines shall be supplied directly by the Administrator, (2) such veteran shall be reimbursed for such drugs or medicines which he obtains from a source approved by the Administrator, or (3) a source approved by the Administrator shall be reimbursed for supplying such drugs or medicines to such veterans, or such veteran will be supplied with such drugs or medicines by another method approved by the Administrator. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 620A)
Bill· HRH.R. 6942 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides for a pension of $100 per month for unremarried widows of men awarded a Medal of Honor posthumously. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 563)
Bill· HRH.R. 6933 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
National Cemeteries Act - Establishes within the Veterans' Administration a National Cemetery System consisting of all cemeteries of the United States in which veterans of any war or conflict or of service in the Armed Forces may be buried. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials to advise and consult with the Administrator with respect to the administration of the cemeteries. Specifies that the following persons are eligible for interment in any open national cemetery: (1) any veteran; (2) any reservist, whose death occurs under honorable conditions, while undergoing treatment at the expense of the United States for injury or disease contracted while acting within the scope of his reservist duties; (3) any ROTC member whose death occurs under honorable conditions during his training period; (4) any U.S. citizen, who served in the Armed Forces of an allied government and such service terminated honorably; (5) the wife, surviving spouse, minor child, and the unmarried adult child of the above-mentioned persons; and (6) such other persons as may be designated by the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to make all rules and regulations and conduct whatever business is necessary to establish and maintain such cemeteries. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to acquire needed additional land by purchase, gift, condemnation, transfer from other Federal agencies, or otherwise as he determines to be in the best interest of the United States. Directs the Administrator to conduct a comprehensive study and to submit his recommendations to the 93d Congress within six months after such Congress convenes, concerning the criteria which should govern the development and operation of the National Cemetery System, including the concept of regional cemeteries; the relationship between that system to other Federal burial benefits provided serviceman and veterans; and the steps to be taken to conform the existing System to the recommended criteria. Authorizes the Administrator to make necessary rules for the governing of property under his control, and to fix penalties for violations. Provides for the payment of burial costs (up to $250) when an eligible veteran or veteran's relative dies in a VA facility. Stipulates that if the veteran is not buried in a national cemetery or other cemetery under the jurisdiction of the United States, the Administrator, in his discretion, having due regard to the circumstances in each case, may pay a sum not exceeding $150 as a plot or interment allowance to such person as he prescribes. Transfers to the Administrator from the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force the functions and responsibilities of such Secretaries with respect to cemeteries under their jurisdiction. Repeals specified provisions of law dealing with national cemeteries and payment of veterans' burial expenses. Authorizes the burial of an unknown soldier from the Vietnam Conflict at Arlington National Cemetery after the United States has concluded its participation in hostilities in Southeast Asia.
Bill· HRH.R. 6955 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides that the proceeds of, or transfer of proceeds of, United States Government Life Insurance and National Service Life Insurance shall not be considered for Federal estate tax purposes.
Bill· HRH.R. 6938 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Increases the availability of guaranteed home loan financing for veterans. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, when issuing a commitment to guarantee a proposed home mortgage loan for veterans, to issue also a non-assignable commitment to purchase the completed loan. Sets forth terms and conditions for such purchase. Increases the income of the national service life insurance fund. Establishes within the Treasury of the United States a revolving fund known as the national service life insurance investment fund. Authorizes the Administration to transfer from the insurance fund to the investment fund amounts necessary to purchase loans as the consequence of commitments issued or to be issued pursuant to this Act. Directs the Administrator to quarantee the investment fund against loss of interest or principal in the event of a deficiency in the investment fund reserves for expenses and losses. Authorizes the Administrator to sell any loan purchased under the authority of this Act. Requires the Administrator to invest the funds of the investment fund in loans which will represent a broad spectrum of the veteran homebuying population in respect to age, income, and location of the properties which constitute the loan securities. Authorizes the Administrator to adopt standards, policies, and procedures and to promulgate regulations appropriate to carrying out his functions under the Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6951 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Expands eligibility for automobiles and adaptive equipment to include Vietnam era veterans (now such benefits extend only to veterans of World War II and the Korean conflict). (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1901)
Bill· HRH.R. 6934 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Increases the amount of veterans' benefits for burial and funeral expense allowances from the present $250 to 750. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 902, 903)
Bill· HRH.R. 6947 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to insure that veterans be provided employment opportunities after discharge at minimum salary rates. Provides that the salary rate shall not be less than the lower of: (1) the rate of pay (adjusted to take into account all allowances and other personal and family benefits to members of the Armed Forces as well as basic pay) to which he was entitled while holding the highest rank attained by him while on active military service; (2) the highest rate of salary he earned before entering into active military service; or (3) the prevailing salary rate or civil service or wage board pay rate for equivalent employment in the area in which his legal residence, as listed in his official service records, is located.
Bill· HRH.R. 6943 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to annually increase or decrease, in an amount equal to the percentage by which the bureau of labor statistics consumer price index increased or decreased since rates were last changed, the monthly rates of the following veterans' benefits: compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, pensions, subsistence allowance, educational assistance allowances, and special training allowances.
Bill· HRH.R. 6926 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Allows credit under the civil service retirement program for military service performed by a citizen of the United States in the armed forces of any nation allied or associated with the United States during a period of war. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8331(13))
Bill· HRH.R. 6939 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Grants credit for retirement purposes to physicians and dentists employed by the Veterans' Administration for a period of 20 years or more, with service equal to the period of time spent in pursuit of the professional doctorate degree up to a maximum allowance of five years. Provides, before benefits can be credited that the physician or dentist must deposit a determined amount in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4109)
Bill· HRH.R. 6923 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Prohibits the military departments from placing on discharge certificates any codes or other indicators which disclose any reason why members of the Armed Forces are discharged or separated from service.
Bill· HRH.R. 6968 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides for the burial in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, of the remains of an unknown American who lost his life while serving overseas in the Armed Forces of the United States during the Vietnam conflict. Authorizes such appropriations as necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6907 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Authorizes additional general officer rank for officers of the Regular Army Medical Service Corps. Reorganizes the Army Medical Service Corps.
Bill· HRH.R. 6882 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Authorizes the payment of compensation for work performed by specified prisoners of the German Government during World War II who were wartime members of the Royal Army of Yugoslavia and who became United States citizens. Establishes the Yugoslav Claims Commission for determining the eligibility of individuals to receive compensation. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6952 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Extends eligibility for veterans' educational benefits to veterans enrolled in vocational educational courses. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1681(b)(2))
Bill· HRH.R. 6948 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides that veterans who serve two or more years in peacetime shall be entitled to a presumption that chronic diseases becoming manifest within one year from the date of separation from service are service connected. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 333)
Bill· HRH.R. 6944 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Makes available to the veterans of the Vietnam War all benefits available to World War II and Korean conflict veterans. Entitles veterans of the Vietnam era to veterans' home, farm, and business loan benefits, except that such entitlement may not be in addition to benefits derived by the Vietnam veteran because of World War II or Korean conflict service. Provides that entitlement to benefits will expire as follows: 10 years from the date of discharge or release from the last period of active duty of the veteran after August 5, 1964, except that 1 additional year will be granted for each 3 months that the veteran spent in active duty; and 20 years from the date of release for service-connected disability from active duty occurring after August 5, 1964. Specifies that direct loans shall not be made after January 31, 1980. Provides for the payment of a fee by each veteran obtaining a guaranteed loan. Permits certain Vietnam veterans to obtain life insurance from the United States without meeting any requirement of good health, so long as application for such insurance is made within the specified time. Prescribes the plans on which the insurance may be issued and allows the conversion or exchange of an insurance policy for any other type insurance issued under these provisions. Sets forth the terms and conditions under which the insurance will be issued. Permits any person in the active military, naval, or air service to surrender his insurance contract for its cash value. Creates in the Treasury a permanent trust fund known as the Vietnam era vetrans' life insurance fund, wherein all premiums paid for Vietnam veterans' insurance will be deposited.
Bill· HRH.R. 6940 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides that any veteran who receives additional compensation or allowance based on the need of regular aid and attendance or is permanently housebound, or who, but for receipt of retired pay, would be in receipt of this compensation or allowance, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may furnish the veteran such medical services as he finds to be reasonably necessary. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 612(g), Adds 38 U.S.C. 612(i))
Bill· HRH.R. 6936 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 6932 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Veterans Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Act - Requires the Administrator of the Veterans' Administration to furnish to any veteran for a drug dependence or drug abuse disability such special medical treatment and rehabilitative services and such hospital and domiciliary care as he finds to be reasonably necessary to bring about the veteran's recovery and rehabilitation from such disability. Requires that in contracting for treatment and rehabilitative services in non-Veterans' Administration facilities, the Administrator shall, wherever feasible, give priority to community-based, multiple-modality, treatment and rehabilitation programs which employ peer group veterans and stress outreach efforts to identify and counsel veterans eligible for treatment and rehabilitative services under this Act. Directs the Administrator to utilize all available resources of the Veterans' Administration in seeking out and counseling toward treatment and rehabilitation of all veterans eligible for treatment and rehabilitation under this Act. Provides that the Administrator shall, to the maximum extent feasible, contract for the services of or employ former addict veterans. Establishes the Special Rehabilivation Revolving Fund for special rehabilitation programs of education and training of specified veterans. Requires an annual audit of the Fund by the Comptroller General. Requires the Administrator to submit to the Congress six months after the enactment of this Act and thereafter on each February 1 a full report on the implementation of this Act, with respect to drug dependency and abuse, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of alternate treatment and rehabilitation programs provided.
Bill· HRH.R. 6916 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to purchase from one or more life insurance companies a policy or policies of mortgage protection life insurance on a group basis for veterans unable to obtain commercial life insurance at a substandard rate because of a service-connected disability. Sets forth the maximum amount of insurance under a policy provided under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to deduct insurance premiums from any compensation or other cash benefits payable to veterans by the Veterans' Administration, and to pay such premiums to the insurers. Provides that the United States shall bear all of the cost of the insurance provided under this Act, except the amount of premium rates. States that any amount of insurance in force under this Act on the date of death of an insured veteran shall be paid only to the holder of the mortgage loan on the veteran's home as a credit toward loan indebtedness. Requires each policy purchased under this Act to provide for the following: (1) reinsurance with other insurers which meet the Administrator's criteria; (2) that the Administrator may discontinue a whole policy, or exclude from coverage loans made after a date fixed by him; (3) issuance to each insured veteran of a certificate setting forth the benefits to which he is entitled; (4) any other provisions necessary to carry out this Act; and (5) an annual accounting to the Administrator of the amount of premiums paid, the total of all mortality and other claim charges incurred, and the amount of the insurer's expenses and risk charges. States that insurance under this Act shall terminate upon whichever of the following events first occurs: (1) satisfaction of the veteran's indebtedness under the loan upon which the insurance is based; (2) the veteran's 70th birthday; (3) termination of the veteran's ownership of the property securing the loan; (4) discontinuance of payment of premiums by the veteran; or (5) discontinuance of the entire contract or agreement. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 791-95)
Bill· HRH.R. 6884 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Provides that the Chief of the Medical Service Corps and the Chief of the Biomedical Sciences Corps of the Air Force shall be a bragadier general. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 8036)
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 198 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that: (1) the President vigorously press our NATO allies to assume a greater proportion of the cost of their own defense; and (2) the President, as Commander in Chief, take whatever steps he deems necessary to implement this burden-sharing concept. Declares that no action taken pursuant to this resolution should weaken either our resolve or our ability to fulfill our commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty.
Bill· SS. 1545 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Extends from one to three years the period that a member of the uniformed services has following retirement to select his home for purposes of travel and transportation allowances. (Amends 37 U.S.C. 404 (c), (g))
Bill· SS. 1548 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 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 losing of such installation is in the best interests of national defense, the nation's economy, and military efficiency.
Bill· SS. 1544 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Prohibits the further expenditure of funds to finance the involvement of the Armed Forces of the United States in armed hostilities in Cambodia unless specifically authorized by legislation enacted after this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6866 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Restores entitlement to educational benefits to veterans of World War II and the Korean conflict who received no such education or training, or received such benefits for less than the maximum period to which they were entitled. (Amends 38 U.S.C.1651; adds 38 U.S.C.1652(a)(1)(C)
Bill· HRH.R. 6854 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Uniformed Services Retirement Pay Equalization Act - Provides that the retired pay of each retired officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps shall be computed on the basis of rates of pay provided by law at the time of his retirement or subsequently for officers on the active list. Permits retired members of the uniformed service, who were retired by reason of physical disability and who are entitled to retired or retainer pay computed under the Career Compensation Act of 1949, to elect within the one-year period following the effective date of this Act, to receive disability retirement pay under this Act in lieu of that retired or retainer pay to which they are otherwise entitled. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 6149)
Bill· HRH.R. 6846 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 6835 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 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.
Bill· SS. 1522 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Removes the restriction on the use by dependents of Armed Forces personnel private institutions under the dependents' medical care program. States that such private institutions need not be non-profit. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1079(d)(4))
Bill· SS. 1518 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Provides that the Secretary of each military department may, under regulations prescribe by the Secretary of Defense, detail commissioned officers of the armed forces as students at accredited law schools, located in the United States, for a period of training leading to the bachelor of laws or juris doctor. States that not more than twenty-five officers from each military department may commence such training in any single fiscal year. Sets forth the qualifications and conditions which an officer must meet to be considered eligible for such a program. Provides that Officers detailed for legal training under this Act shall be selected on a competitive basis by the Secretary of the military department concerned, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. States that expenses incident to the detail of officers under this Act shall be paid from any funds appropriated for the military department concerned.
Bill· SS. 1509 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Provides that veterans enrolled in vocational educational course shall not receive educational assistance for any day of absence in excess of thirty days in a twelve month period not counting as abscences weekend, or legal holidays established by Federal or State law during which the institution is not regularly in session. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1780(a)(2))
Bill· HRH.R. 6769 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Provides for the payment of a pension of $125 per month to World War I veterans, subject to a $2,400 and $3,600 annual income limitation on unmarried and married veterans, respectively. Provides that retirement income shall not be counted as income for the purpose of such limitation. States that such pension shall be increased by 10 percent where the veteran served overseas during World War I.
Bill· HRH.R. 6762 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Provides for a feasibility study of specified highways from Brunswick, Georgia, or its vicinity to Kansas City, Missouri, or its vicinity for the purpose of including such highways in the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
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