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Bill· HRH.R. 6109 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1973
Provides under the Interstate Commerce Act, that the court, in its discretion, may allow a reasonable attorney's fee and court costs to the prevailing party in any successful prosecution or defense of an action for recovery of damages sustained in transportation of property.
Bill· HRH.R. 6096 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 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. (Amends 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 enlisted before July 4, 1946, and 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, physicans and dentists, nurses. Provides criteria on which nurses are to receive additional compensation. Enumerates restriction 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 of 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 Facilites; 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 facilites. (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· SS. 1336 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Authorizes the recomputation at age sixty of the retired pay of members and former members of the uniformed services whose retired pay is computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972.
Bill· HRH.R. 6085 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Extends eligibility for coverage under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance to: (1) a person who volunteers for assignment to the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service and is assigned to a unit or position in which he may be required to perform active duty; (2) a person assigned to the Retired Reserve of a uniformed service who has not received the first increment of retirement annuities or has not yet reached 61 years of age and has completed at least 20 years of satisfactory service creditable for retirement purposes; and (3) a member, cadet, or midshipman of the Reserve Officers Training Corps while attending field training or practice cruises. Provides that an insurance policy for a member of the Ready Reserve shall cease 120 days after separation or release from such assignment unless on the date of separation the member is totally disabled, or has completed 20 years of service creditable for retirement purposes. Continues the insurance policy of a member of the Retired Reserve until such time as the member receives the first increment of retirement annuity, or the member's sixty-first birthday, whichever occurs earlier. Makes provisions for the conversion of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance following termination to a policy with a participating life insurance company. Provides for the payment of premiums by a deduction from the pay of a member of the Reserve or Ready Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air Force, as the case may be, to allow a member of the National Guard who is not on active duty to make allotments from his pay for the payment of premiums under a group life insurance program sponsored by the military department of the State in which such member holds his National Guard membership or by the National Guard association of such State. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 765-771; Adds 37 U.S.C. 707)
Bill· HRH.R. 6065 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 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. 6083 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Authorizes veterans' benefits for qualified persons who served in the Local Secruity Patrol Force of Guam during World War II. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 106(f))
Bill· HRH.R. 6066 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 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. (Amends 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 enlisted before July 4, 1946, and 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, physicans and dentists, nurses. Provides criteria on which nurses are to receive additional compensation. Enumerates restriction 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 of 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 Facilites; 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 facilites. (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. 6063 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Provides for cost-of-living increases for veterans' compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation and pension payments equal to the rise in the consumer price index when the Administrator of Veteran's Affairs determines that the Consumer Price Index has increased by 3 percent or more.
Bill· HRH.R. 6034 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Provides that, in the absence of a declaration of war by the Congress, the President of the United States is authorized to commit Armed Forces of the United States to military hostilities only: (1) to repel any attack against the United States, its territories, or possessions; (2) to repel any attack against the Armed Forces of the United States on the high seas, in the air, or lawfully stationed on foreign territory; (3) to protect the lives of United States nationals abroad; and (4) to comply with a national commitment resulting from treaty, convention, or legislative enactment specifically intended to give effect to such commitment. Establishes a Joint Committee on National Security which shall meet within twenty-four hours after the initiation of such hostilities. Directs the President to report the initiation of such hostilities to the joint committee, together with a full account of the circumstances bearing on the necessity for the initiation of such hostilities. Provides that the joint committee shall not have authority to report legislation to the floor of either House, but it shall transmit information under this Act together with its recommendation for legislation to be considered or adopted. States that military hostilities by the Armed Forces of the United States shall not be continued for more than thirty days from the date such hostilities are initiated unless the authority to continue such hostilities for more than thirty days is contained in enabling legislation enacted by the Congress, including a declaration of war.
Bill· HRH.R. 6010 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Prisoner of War Bonus Benefits Act - Entitles members of the armed forces who were in a missing status for any period during the Vietnam conflict to double credit for such period for retirement purposes. Specifies additional pay and allowances and medical benefits to which such persons are entitled. Provides for double retirement credit to Federal employees in such status during the conflict.
Bill· HRH.R. 6023 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish and maintain a national cemetery in each State in which there is no national cemetery as of the date of the enactment of the Act. Provides an additional sum of $400 as a burial allowance with respect to any deceased veteran who is interred in other than a national cemetery.
Bill· HRH.R. 6064 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Increases payments in specified amounts to veterans under non-service-connected disability pension plans. Increases pension payments to widows of veterans who at the time of death were receiving compensation or retirement pay for a service-connected disability. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 521(b),(c); 541(b),(c))
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 456 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Repeals the Military Selective Service Act, effective 60 days after the enactment of this joint resolution.
Bill· HRH.R. 5995 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act - Provides as payment to educational or training institutions for each veteran enrolled in a full-time or part-time course of education or training, the customary cost of tuition and such laboratory, library, health, infirmary, and other similar fees as are customarily charged, as well as pay for books, supplies, equipment, and other necessary expenses, excluding board, lodging, other living expenses and travel. Prohibits payments to exceed $2,000 for an ordinary school year, or to be made to institutions, business, or other establishments furnishing apprentice training on the job. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1686)
Bill· HRH.R. 5937 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Provides that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 5933 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Increases from fifty to sixty-five the percentage of the total cost which may be granted to a State for assistance in remodeling, modifying, or altering existing hospital or domiciliary facilities in State homes providing care and treatment for veterans.
Bill· HRH.R. 5934 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 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. 5913 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Grants eligibility for military retired pay to reservists of the Armed Forces serving in an inactive status before August 16, 1945. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1331(c))
Bill· HRH.R. 5922 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Increases payments in specified amounts to veterans under non-service connected disability pension plans. Increases pensions payments to widows of veterans who, at the time of death, were receiving compensation or retirement pay for a service-connected disability. Increases dependency and indemnity compensation to parents of deceased veterans. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 52(b), (c); 541(b), (c); 415(b), (c), (d))
Bill· HRH.R. 5960 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 5936 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Requires that veterans receiving hospital care from the Veterans' Administration for non-service-connected disabilities be charged for such care to the extent that they have health insurance or similar con- tracts with respect to such care. Prohibits the future exclusion of such coverage from insurance policies or contracts.
Bill· HRH.R. 5920 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 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 servicemen 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. Transfers to the Administrator from the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Airforce 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.
Bill· SS. 1302 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Vietnam Era Veterans' Unemployment Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to enter into agreements with a State or State agency to provide unemployment supplementary compensation of $75 per week for 52 weeks as supplementary compensation for Vietnam era veterans to be paid from Federal funding. Authorizes the Secretary to issue necessary rules and regulations.
Bill· SS. 1305 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Provides for the establishment of the post cemetery at Fort Richardson, Alaska, as a national cemetery. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5881 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Permits attendance, without loss of pay or deduction from annual leave, of United States Postal Service employees who are veterans at funerals of honorably discharged members of the United States Armed Forces.
Bill· HRH.R. 5903 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army to provide for the establishment of a national cemetery in Los Angeles County in the State of California. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the care and maintenance of such national cemetary.
Bill· HRH.R. 5895 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Increases benefits provided to American civilian internees in Southeast Asia to $150 per month (previously $60). (Amends 50 U.S.C. 2004(i) (3))
Bill· HRH.R. 5853 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Extends from one to three years the period that a member of the uniformed services has following his retirement to select his home for purposes of travel and transportation allowances. (Amends 37 U.S.C. 404(c), 406(g))
Bill· HRH.R. 5887 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Provides that totally and permanently disabled World War II servicemen and their dependents are eligible for specified medical and dental benefits. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1086(c)(1))
Bill· HRH.R. 5859 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Extends eligibility for veterans' educational benefits to veterans enrolled in vocational educational courses. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1780(a)(2))
Bill· HRH.R. 5851 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Increases payments in specified amounts to veterans under non-service-connected disability pension plans. Increases pension payments to widows of veterans who at the time of death were receiving compensation or retirement pay for a service-connected disability. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 521(b),(c); 541(b),(c))
Bill· HRH.R. 5896 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Designates the Secretary of Defense (rather than the Secretaries of the Army and the Navy) as the person entitled to receive official notice of the filing of applications in the common carrier service and to provide notice to the Secretary of State where, under the Communications Act of 1934, applications involve service to foreign ports. (Amends 47 U.S.C. 214(b) and 22 (c)(1))
Bill· HRH.R. 5864 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Provides that, in the determination of the annual income of recipients of veterans' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall not reduce the amount of such pension or compensation because of increases in monthly social security benefits under Public Law 92-336 or the 20 percent increase in railroad retirement pensions and annuities provided by Public Law 92-460. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 415(g)(4), 503(d))
Bill· HRH.R. 5844 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Provides for the settlement by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Treasury, as appropriate, under international agreements, of claims incident to the noncombat activities of the Armed Forces. Prohibits consideration of a claim arising out of an act of the Armed Forces while engaged in combat. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 2734(a))
Bill· SS. 1282 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Reserve Forces Benefits Act - Authorizes the same medical, dental, and hospital benefits which are now available to members of the Uniformed Services to reservists and members of the National Guard when such illness was incurred or aggravated incident to duty or training. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1076; Adds U.S.C. 1088)
Bill· HRH.R. 5797 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 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. 5782 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Provides that the proceeds of National Service Life Insurance and United States Government Life Insurance be paid, under specified circumstances, to the estate of the insured if payment to the estate of the insured veteran if payment to the estate of the beneficiary would escheat. Provides that an application for insurance benefits must be made within two years of the date of the enactment of this Act or two years from the date or death of the insured whichever is later. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 717, 750)
Bill· HRH.R. 5778 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Provides for additional wartime disability compensation to members of the Armed Forces of the United States, who, while on active duty, were either missing in action or held as prisoners of war for at least sixty days during the Indochina War. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 363-65)
Bill· HRH.R. 5787 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Provides that the Secretary of Defense may authorize surface transportation at government expense of motor vehicles belonging to members of the armed forces on permanent change of station between customary ports of embarkation and debarkation if such transportation does not exceed the cost to the United States of other authorized means. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 2634a)
Bill· HRH.R. 5783 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Provides educational assistance to war orphans and widows of veterans for farm cooperative training consisting of institutional agricultural courses pre-scheduled to fall within a forty-four week period of any consecutive months whether it is pursued on a full, three-quarter, or half time basis. (Amends 36 U.S.C. 1723, 1732)
Bill· HRH.R. 5771 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Provides for the restoration of medical and dental care to military widows whose remarriage has been terminated. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1072(2)(B))
Bill· HRH.R. 5784 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Extends eligibility for coverage under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance to: (1) a person who volunteers for assignment to the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service and is assigned to a unit or position in which he may be required to perform active duty; (2) a person assigned to the Retired Reserve of a uniformed service who has not received the first increment of retirement annuities or has not yet reached 61 years of age and has completed at least 20 years of satisfactory service creditable for retirement purposes; and (3) a member, cadet, or midshipman of the Reserve Officers Training Corps while attending field training or practice cruises. Provides that an insurance policy for a member of the Ready Reserve shall cease 120 days after separation or release from such assignment unless on the date of separation the member is totally disabled, or has completed 20 years of service creditable for retirement purposes. Continues the insurance policy of a member of the Retired Reserve until such time as the member receives the first increment of retirement annuity, or the member's sixty-first birthday, whichever occurs earlier. Makes provisions for the conversion of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance following termination to a policy with a participating life insurance company. Provides for the payment of premiums by a deduction from the pay of a member of the Reserve or Ready Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air Force, as the case may be, to allow a member of the National Guard who is not on active duty to make allotments from his pay for the payment of premiums under a group life insurance program sponsored by the military department of the State in which such member holds his National Guard membership or by the National Guard association of such State. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 765-771; Adds 37 U.S.C. 707)
Bill· SS. 1263 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations during the fiscal year 1974 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons, and research, development, test and evaluation for the Armed Forces. Prescribes the authorized personnel strength for each active duty component and of the Selected Reserve of each Reserve component of the Armed Forces.
Bill· HRH.R. 5717 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Requires the concurrence of all members of a court-martial to convict any person of violating a punitive article under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 852a)
Bill· HRH.R. 5697 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Veterans Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Act - Defines "disability" for purposes of hospital, domicilary and medical care for veterans under title 38 of the United States Code so as to include alcoholism and drug dependence. Defines "veteran" for purposes of hospital care and medical services for a service connected disability as a person with an other than dishonorable discharge. 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 in-patient or out-patient basis, over a protracted period as may be necessary to assist the individual disabled veteran to return, as soon and as completely rehabilitated 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. Provides for readjustment medical counseling and appropriate followup care to a veteran of the Vietnam era who requests such care. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out specified medical programs providing inpatient treatment, including treatment of the symptoms of detoxification, and outpatient treatment and rehabilitative services on a nationwide basis to the eligible veterans and persons suffering from the disability of alcoholism or alcoholic abuse. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish special medical treatment and rehabilitation services for drug dependence and drug abuse disabilities for any veteran. Describes such services to be provided. 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 which employ peer group veterans and stress outreach efforts to identify and counsel veterans eligible for treatment and rehabilitation under the Act. Provides that a veteran applying for treatment and rehabilitative services, with an other than honorable or general discharge, shall be advised of his right to a review of the nature of his discharge and informed of programs that he would be entitled to with a general or honorable discharge. Provides for the payment for treatment and rehabilitative services for a Vietnam era veteran in a non-Veterans' Administration facility where V.A. facilities are not readily accessible. Authorizes treatment and rehabilitative services for a veteran charged with or convicted of a criminal offense, and not confined. Authorizes the furnishing of drugs and medicines to any veteran incarcerated who had been in a program previously if the attendant physician orders them. Directs the Administrator to utilize all V.A. resources including the use of peer group veterans, in seeking out and counseling veterans, especially Vietnam era veterans. Provides for the employment of former addict veterans to assist in the program wherever feasible. Authorizes the Administrator to carry out an affirmative action program, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, to urge all Federal agencies, private and public firms, organizations, agencies, and persons to provide appropriate employment opportunities for veterans who have received treatment and who have been determined by competent medical authority to be sufficiently rehabilitated to be employable. Provides for a special rehabilitation program of education and training for veterans with alcohol and drug dependence conditions acquired or aggravated while in the service. Provides that the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of his duly authorized representatives, shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, accounts, records, reports, files, and all other things or property of non-Veterans' Administration facilities that are pertinent to payments received pursuant to contracts entered into under this Act. Provides that an active serviceman determined to have drug dependence disability may upon written request be transferred to a V.A. facility within the last 90 days of his tour of duty and be provided services under this Act as if he were a veteran. Requires all records and information divulged in connection with treatment and rehabilitative services under this Act to be kept confidential. Allows disclosure where there is a voluntary waiver, where the individual is a clear and present danger to himself or others, where the individual is deceased and information is necessary for benefits, and where a court order is obtained. Provides for an annual report to the Congress by the Administrator on the implementation of the programs under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5698 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 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. 5699 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 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, 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. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 631) Provides that the President may authorize the Administrator to enter 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 a Veterans Memorial Hospital, 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 and new Philippine Scouts 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, and for new Philippine Scouts if they enlisted before July 4, 1946, determined by the Administrator to need such care for non-service-connected disabilities if they are unable to defray the expense of necessary hospital care; and (3) may pay for hospital care, nursing home care, and medical services determined by the Administrator to be necessary for new Philippine Scouts and for any Commonwealth Army veteran under certain conditions and in specified amounts. Provides that the total of the payments authorized shall not exceed $2,000,000 for any one fiscal year ending before July 1, 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 Veterans Memorial 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. 41019b) 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 Veteran's 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 of 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, provisions 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 amounts 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 or an average daily patient census in such beds of no less than 85,500 in any fiscal year, nor maintain such a census of less than 82,000 in any such 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)) Makes provisions for the partial relinquishment to the States of legislative jurisdiction over lands or interests presently in the Administrator's control. 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.
Law· HRH.R. 5621 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Provides for the presentation of a flag of the United States for deceased members of the National Guard and Selected Reserve who die under honorable circumstances. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1482 (e)
Bill· HRH.R. 5653 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Provides that, for purposes of computing the retired pay of enlisted members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, the years of service are computed by adding the years of active service in the armed forces, the years of service in a medical unit or in medical work, and the years of service credited for special duty in specified assignments. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 3925(a), 6330, 8925(a))
Bill· HRH.R. 5654 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Requires, under the Federal Civil Defense Act, national standard fire hose screw threads on couplings of fire hoses and other equipment used for fire protective purposes.
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