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United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Requires the presentation of full military honors at the burial of veterans upon the request of the next-of-kin of the deceased, if such deceased will be buried within a radius of fifty miles of a military installation or post. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1489)
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Uniformed Services Retirement Modernization Act - States that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a member of an Armed Force who is discharged or released from active duty and who has completed at least 5 but less than 20 years of service immediately before that discharge or release is entitled to a readjustment payment if: (1) his discharge or release from active duty is involuntary; (2) he was not accepted for an additional enlistment for which he volunteered; or (3) he was not accepted for an additional tour of active duty for which he volunteered. States that such a member is entitled to a readjustment payment equal to 5 percent of the product of twelve times the monthly basic pay to which he was entitled at the time of his discharge or release from active duty multiplied by his years of service. Provides that such provisions do not apply to a member who: (1) is discharged or released from active duty at his request; (2) is released from active duty for training; (3) upon discharge or release from active duty, is immediately eligible for retired or retainer pay based entirely on his military service; or (4) is discharged or released from active duty under conditions which the Secretary concerned determines do not warrant payment of readjustment pay. States that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a member of an Armed Force who is discharged or released from active duty, and who has completed at least 5, but less than 20, years of service immediately before such discharge or release, is entitled to deferred retired pay at age 60 or a lump-sum payment in lieu. Allows a member to defer an election instead of making it at time of release or discharge, and to elect at any time before age 60. States that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a member of an Armed Force who is voluntarily discharged or released from active duty, and who has completed immediately before that discharge or release at least 10, but less than 20, years of service is entitled to deferred retired pay computed when he becomes 60 years of age. Sets forth a computation formula for retired pay with physical disability and retired or retainer pay other than with physical disability. Allows a person who is qualified for retirement under more than one provision of law to be entitled to retired pay under the provision that is most favorable to him. Permits a member of an Armed Force who is advanced to a higher grade on the retired list to recompute his monthly retired pay. Entitles a member of an Armed Force who has been retired other than for physical disability, and who while on active duty incurs a physical disability of at least 30 percent for which he would otherwise be eligible for retired pay, upon his release from active duty, to retired pay. Entitles a member of an Armed Force who has become entitled to retired or retainer pay, and who thereafter serves on active duty (other than for training), to recompute his montly retired or retainer pay. Sets forth a method for computing years of service, monthly retired or retainer pay base other than with physical disability, and monthly retired pay base with physical disability. Allows each officer who voluntarily retires with 30 or 40 years of service to retire in the grade in which he was serving at the time of retirement, unless he is otherwise entitled to a higher retired grade. Allows each Regular Navy or Regular Marine Corps officer who retires the highest grade, permanent or temporary, held by him on active duty. Entitles regular female members, if eligible therefor, to readjustment pay and either deferred retired pay or a lump-sum payment. Sets forth retirement provisions for the Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey commissioned officers, and Public Health Service officers. Requires the monthly retired or retainer pay base of a member of a uniformed service who, within the 12-month period after the effective date of this Act, is retired, transferred to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, or retired and advanced to a higher grade on the retired list to be computed under this Act. States that a member or former member of the uniformed services who is retired under any provision of law, or transferred to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, on the effective date of this Act, shall have his monthly retired or retainer pay computed on the basis of the rates of basic pay in effect on the day before the effective date of this Act. Provides that enactment of this Act does not reduce or increase the monthly retired or retainer pay to which a member or former member of a uniformed service was entitled on the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Authorizes an increase in the rates of vocational rehabilitation and educational assistance allowances paid to eligible veterans and other eligible persons.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Authorizes the issuance of immigration visas to any alien and his spouse and children who is a native of the Philippines, who served in any United States Armed Force during World War II, and (if already separated) who was separated under honorable conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Requires the Armed Forces to provide special educational and health services to dependents of members serving on active duty who are deaf, hard of hearing, seriously emotionally disturbed, moderately or severely mentally retarded, crippled, or have a speech or health impairment or specific learning disability requiring special education and related services. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1079 (d))
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, is retired for reasons other than physical disability, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability whose disability was finally determined to be of a permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949, and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972. States that a member or fomer member of a uniformed service who elects to have his retired pay recomputed as authorized under this Act shall be entitled to retired pay based upon such recomputation effective on the first day of the first calendar month following the month in which he makes such election.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Defense Officer Personnel Management Act - States that the total strength of an armed force (other than the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy) in members on active duty is as authorized annually by law. States that the Secretary of Defense may, for any armed force except the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, prescribe the total strength in officers on active duty; and that the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe the numbers of any other category of members of an armed force under his jurisdiction authorized to be on active duty. Sets forth the number of commissioned officers who may serve in each grade . Provides that in time of war, or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after December 19, 1950, the President may suspend the operation of such provisions related to officer strength. States that the Secretary of the military department concerned shall, whenever the needs of the service require, prescribe the number of commissioned officers, that shall be maintained in each of the grades of major through colonel or lieutenant commander through captain (Navy). Provides that original appointments in commissioned grades in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps shall be made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Establishes basic qualifications for commissioned officers. Prescribes procedures to determine service credit for officers. Requires that at least once a year and at such other times as the needs of the service require, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall convene selection boards to recommend for promotion to the next higher grade officers on the active-duty list in each grade from first lieutenant through lieutenant colonel in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, and from lieutenant (junior grade) through commander in the Navy. Sets forth the required composition and procedures of such boards. States that such a board may recommend as best qualified for promotion in each competitive category 15 percent of the total in each such category that the board is authorized to recommend for promotion to the grade concerned. Establishes time-in-rank requirements for promotion. Sets forth requirements and procedures for placing officers' names on the active-duty list in various competitive categories. Allows the President or the Senate to remove names from lists of selectees for promotion. Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned, under regulations prescribed by him to discharge any regular officer on the active-duty list who has less than 5 years of active commissioned service; and requires him to discharge a regular officer serving on the active-duty list in the grade of second lieutenant or ensign who is found not qualified for promotion to the next higher grade. States that officers who have failed of selection for promotion to the next higher grade for the second time, and whose name is not on a recommended list for promotion shall be honorable discharged or retired. Provides that the Secretary of the military department concerned may defer retirement or separation if, because of unavoidable circumstances, evaluation of his physical condition and determination of his entitlement to retirement or separation for physical disability require hospitalization or medical observation that cannot be completed before the date he would otherwise be required to retire or be separated. States that the selection and promotion of medical and dental officers to grades below brigadier general or rear admiral shall be based on the needs of the service as determined by the Secretary of the military department concerned. Provides that in time of war, or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after December 19, 1950, the President may suspend such provisions relating to promotion, separation, and retirement. Entitles officers discharged under this Act to readjustment or retired pay. Requires boards of review, each composed of three or more officers, to be convened by the Secretary of the military department concerned, at such times as he may prescribe, to review the records of cases of regular commissioned officers recommended for removal from active duty by boards of inquiry. Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned to remove an officer of a regular component of an armed force from active duty if his removal is recommended by a board of review under this Act. Allows each officer under consideration for removal to be: (1) notified in writing of the reasons, at least 30 days before the hearing of the case by a board of inquiry; (2) allowed reasonable time, as determined by the board of inquiry, to prepare his defense; and (3) allowed to appear in person and be represented by counsel. Sets forth how rank shall be determined for commissioned officers. States that a regular commissioned officer is not eligible for voluntary retirement until he completes at least 6 months in the grade in which he is to be retired. Requires that each board convened to consider officers in the Navy Medical Corps, the Judge Advocate General's Corps, the Supply Corps, the Chaplain Corps, the Civil Engineer Corps, the Dental Corps, the Nurse Corps, or the Medical Service Corps shall consist of officers in the corps concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Increases from $2,000 to $2,600 the unearned income limitation governing the payment of pensions to children of deceased veterans of the Mexican border period, World War I, World War II, the Korean conflict, or the Vietnam era. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 542(c))
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Directs the Secretary of the Army to pay to each person and survivors of those persons who served as a Philippine Scout after December 6, 1941, and before December 31, 1946, in a lump sum the difference between the basic pay which he would have received for his military service during that period if the rates of pay of the Philippine Scouts had been the same as the rates of basic pay for other members of the Army of the United States of corresponding grades and length of service, reduced by the basic pay actually received by such person.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Authorizes increased production of petroleum from the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve at a rate to help insure that the needs of national defense are met, but not to exceed the maximum efficient rate in accordance with sound engineering and economic principles. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of the production herein authorized by means of sales effected by competitive bid. Provides that full and equal opportunity for acquisition of the oil shall be accorded to all interested companies, including major and independent oil refineries alike. Establishes the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account. States that funds in the Account shall be available for the expenses of: (1) production, including preparation for production, as authorized by this resolution and as may hereafter be authorized; (2) all capital costs necessary for facilities both within and outside the reserve incident to production and delivery of crude petroleum; and (3) exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum and shale oil reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
States in relation to the provision of adaptive equipment for automobiles used by disabled veterans and servicemen, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall provide and repair such equipment for any automobile or other conveyance which an eligible person may previously or subsequently have acquired. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1902(c))
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act - Title I: Vocational Rehabilitation and Educational Assistance Rate Adjustments - Increases the base figures for vocational rehabilitation and Educational assistance by eight per cent. Adjusts three-quarter and half-time rates to provide the same proportion as the amount of training taken. Provides increases for trainees pursuing farm-cooperative apprentice programs or other on the job training. Provides that veterans of the Vietnam era rated 10 percent disabled or greater shall automatically be entitled to vocational rehabilitation benefits. Title II: Educational Assistance Program Adjustments - Extends the current 8-year delimiting date for veterans to complete their programs of education until educational assistance afforded to eligible veterans shall be used. Excludes in computing the delimiting date for those veterans and civilians held as prisoners of war in the Vietnam theater of operations, the period of time which they were detained plus any period of time which they were hospitalized immediately subsequent to their release. Provides those recently discharged from military service up to 6 months of educational assistance to pursue refresher training to update knowledge, skills, and technological advances occurring in their fields of employment during their period of active military service. Provides cost-of-living increases for veterans or eligible persons enrolled in apprenticeship or other on-the-job training. Title III: Veterans' Education Loan Programs - Establishes a veterans' education loan program. Prescribes the eligibility requirements, the amount and conditions, and interest rate of such loans. Requires that a fee shall be collected from each veteran obtaining a loan for the purpose of insuring against defaults on such loans. Title IV: Veterans, Wives, and Widows Employment Assistance and Preference and Veterans' Reemployment Rights - Extends job counseling, training, and placement services for veterans to include among those eligible to receive services, widows of veterans who have died of service-connected causes and wives of totally disabled veterans. Directs the Administrator of Veterans in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Civil Service Commission to establish an affirmative action plan for every Federal department and agency for the preferential employment of disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era. Extends reemployment rights to those who were employed by State or local governments prior to entering the service. Title V: Effective Dates - Specifies the effective dates of the various titles of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Enables the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this Act, the rates of disability compensation payable to persons receiving benefits on December 31, 1958, who are not in receipt of compensation payable for service connected disability or death. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314, 315)
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Authorizes the issuance of immigration visas to any alien and his spouse and children who is a native of the Philippines, who served in any United States Armed Force during World War II, and (if already separated) who was separated under honorable conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Uniformed Services Retirement Pay Equalization Act - Provides that the retired pay of each retired officer of the Navy or 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)
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Enables the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this Act, the rates of disability compensation payable to persons receiving benefits on December 31, 1958, who are not in receipt of compensation payable for service connected disability or death. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314, 315)
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that new efforts should be made by the Government of the United States through appropriate diplomatic and international channels to persuade the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, and the Lao Patriotic Front to comply with their obligations with respect to personnel captured or killed during the Vietnam conflict and with respect to personnel still in a missing status; that every effort should be made to obtain the cooperation of the various Cambodian authorities in providing information with respect to personnel missing in Cambodia; and that further efforts should be made to obtain necessary cooperation for search teams to inspect crash sites and other locations where personnel may have been lost.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Provides that the interest rate on loans guaranteed or insured to veterans for the purchase or construction of homes shall be as agreed to by the lender and borrower, unless the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs determines that such rate is excessive in view of the current interest rates in the mortgage or loan market in the areas involved. Directs the Administrator to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to assure that lenders do not, directly or indirectly, make any charges in the nature of discounts or points in connection with loans guaranteed under provisions for Veterans' Benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Extends medical benefits to the survivors of severely service-connected disabled deceased veterans. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 613(a))
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Provides that dependency and indemnity compensation shall be paid to a widow, based on the pay grade of her deceased husband. Sets forth the monthly rates to be paid. Provides that the dependency and indemnity compensation paid monthly to the widow shall be increased by $25 for each child, below the age of eighteen, of a deceased veteran. Makes an additional compensation of $63 monthly to the widow if she is (1) a patient in a nursing home or (2) helpless or blind, or so nearly helpless or blind as to need or require the regular aid and attendence of another person. Makes provisions for compensation for children of a deceased veteran whenever there is no widow entitled to such compensation. Increases other rates of compensation included in Veterans' Benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1974
Defines the term "veteran", for purposes of determining eligibility for benefits under the Veterans Administration, to mean a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released therefrom other than by a discharge imposed by a court-martial. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide to any claimant for any benefit under law administered by the Veterans' Administrator a list likely need to support his claim. Provides that the Administrator shall recognize any individual admitted to practice law before the highest court in any State or the District of Columbia to act as an agent or attorney in the preparation, presentation, or prosecution of any claim under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. Describes the procedure for review of a case by the Board of Veterans' Appeals and for appeals from the decision of such Board.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Enables the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this Act, the rates of disability compensation payable to persons receiving benefits on December 31, 1958, who are not in receipt of compensation payable for service connected disability or death. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314, 315)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Enables the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this Act, the rates of disability compensation payable to persons receiving benefits on December 31, 1958, who are not in receipt of compensation payable for service connected disability or death.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Provides for the presentation of a flag of the United States for deceased members of the Reserve who die after completing twenty years of service, but before becoming entitled to retired pay. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1482)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Enables the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this Act, the rates of disability compensation payable to persons receiving benefits on December 31, 1958, who are not in receipt of compensation payable for service connected disability or death. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314, 315)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Requires the presentation of full military honors at the burial of veterans if such honors are requested by the next of kin of the deceased. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1489)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy one citizen of the Kingdom of Laos.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1974
Provides for appropriate ceremonies with respect to the burial of deceased veterans in national cemeteries upon the request of the immediate family. Provides that such ceremonies shall be provided without assessment of costs and shall include a chaplain, the use of available cemetery chapel, a U.S. flag to drape the casket, and military personnel to serve in the funeral. (Amends 38, U.S.C. 1004)
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1974
Requires that all Federal retirement or annuity payments be disregarded in determining annual income under the veterans' pension laws. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 415 (g) and 503 (a) (6))
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress: (1) that new efforts should be made by the Government of the United States through appropriate diplomatic and international channels to persuade the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, and the Lao Patriotic Front to comply with their obligations with respect to personnel captured or killed during the Vietnam conflict and with respect to personnel still in a missing status; (2) that every effort should be made to obtain the cooperation of the various Cambodian authorities in providing information with respect to personnel missing in Cambodia; and (3) that further efforts should be made to obtain necessary cooperation for search teams to inspect crash sites and other locations where personnel may have been lost.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II of the Social Security Act.