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United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
States that the Congress expresses its approval and encouragement with respect to the establishment of the Naval and Maritime Museum in Charleston, South Carolina.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Military Construction Authorization Act - Titles I, II, III, and IV : Authorizes appropriations to the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense Department for various projects relating to acquisition and construction at specified military installations and for constructing, converting, rehabilitating or installing permanent or temporary public works. Permits the Secretaries to establish or develop installations and facilities by proceeding with construction made necessary by changes in Armed Forces missions and responsibilities which have been occasioned by (1) unforeseen security considerations, (2) new weapons development, (3) new and unforeseen research and development requirements, or (4) improved production schedules. Title V: Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to construct or acquire sole interest in existing family housing units at specified locations. Requires the Secretary to consult first with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as to the availability of suitable private housing at such locations. Permits the Secretary of Defense to acquire sole interest in privately owned family housing units, if he determines that it is in the best interests of the Government to do so. Authorizes appropriations for the construction of family housing. Sets forth cost limitations governing such construction. Authorizes appropriations for modifications of existing public quarters, for construction of family housing units not subject to cost limitations at specific locations, for repairs and improvements to existing public quarters, and for construction of military family housing. Title VI : Authorizes appropriations for public works projects. States that no individual project may be approved if (1) the estimated cost of such project is $400,000 or more and (2) the current working estimates of the Department of Defense exceed by more than 25 percent the amount authorized for such project by the Congress. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit an annual report identifying each individual project which has been placed under contract where the current working estimate based on bids received exceeds the amount authorized for such project by more than 25 percent. Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to report annually to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a breakdown of the dollar value of construction contracts completed by each of the several construction agencies. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Authorization Act - Permits the Secretary of Defense to establish or develop additional facilities for the Guard and Reserve Forces. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Title VIII : Authorizes appropriations to the Secretaries for establishing or developing military installations and facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Provides that when a member of an armed force is ordered to make a change of permanent station he may transport one motor vehicle by State-owned ferry vessel and be reimbursed for the ferry expenses, if transportation by such means is less expensive than other authorized methods of transportation. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 2634 (a)) Provides that when any member of an armed service is authorized to travel by privately owned vehicle and a portion of that travel is accomplished on a State-owned ferry vessel, such member may be reimbursed for the ferry expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Military Construction Authorization Act - Titles I, II, III, and IV: Authorizes appropriations to the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense Department for various projects relating to acquisition and construction at specified military installations and for constructing, converting, rehabilitating or installing permanent or temporary public works. Permits the Secretaries to establish or develop installations and facilities by proceeding with construction made necessary by changes in Armed Forces missions and responsibilities which have been occasioned by (1) unforeseen security considerations, (2) new weapons development, (3) new and unforeseen research and development requirements, or (4) improved production schedules. Title V: Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to construct or acquire sole interest in existing family housing units at specified locations. Requires the Secretary to consult first with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as to the availability of suitable private housing at such locations. Permits the Secretary of Defense to acquire sole interest in privately owned family housing units, if he determines that it is in the best interests of the Government to do so. Authorizes appropriations for the construction of family housing. Sets forth cost limitations governing such construction. Authorizes appropriations for modifications of existing public quarters, for construction of family housing units not subject to cost limitations at specific locations, for repairs and improvements to existing public quarters, and for construction of military family housing. Title VI: Authorizes appropriations for public works projects. States that no individual project may be approved if (1) the estimated cost of such project is $400,000 or more and (2) the current working estimates of the Department of Defense exceed by more than 25 percent the amount authorized for such project by the Congress. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit an annual report identifying each individual project which has been placed under contract, where the current working estimate based on bids received exceeds the amount authorized for such project by more than 25 percent. Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to report annually to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a breakdown of the dollar value of construction contracts completed by each of the several construction agencies. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Authorization Act - Permits the Secretary of Defense to establish or develop additional facilities for the Guard and Reserve Forces. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Title VIII: Authorizes appropriations to the Secretaries for establishing or developing military installations and facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1976 and 1977 for the Coast Guard for the procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments. Authorizes appropriations for bridge alterations. Authorizes for the Coast Guard an end-year strength for active duty personnel, and for average military loads.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66, Public Law 93-233, and subsequent cost-of-living increases under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Authorizes additional appropriations not exceeding $10,194,000 for support of military family housing, including operating expenses and maintenance of real property.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Entitles specified veterans of the Mexican border period and of World War I and their widows and children to a veterans' pension benefit on the same basis as that accorded to veterans of the Spanish American War and their widows and children, respectively. Provides for an increase in pension rates applicable to such classes of veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
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, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, 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 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.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Makes an individual who served any time in the Armed Services during World War I eligible for a pension.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pensions and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits which result from the enactment of Public Law 92-336 or any subsequent cost-of-living increase under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Directs the Secretary of Defense to continue the operation and maintenance of each of the commissary stores of the agencies of the Department of Defense in operation on January 1, 1975. States that the Secretary shall request appropriations for their direct costs.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Veterans Disability Compensation and Survivors Benefits Act - Title I: Veterans Disability Compensation - Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' affairs to adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this Act, the rates of indemnity and dependency compensation payble to specified persons receiving veterans benefits. Title II: Survivors Dependency and Indemnity Compensation - Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation payable to widows. Title III: Effective Date: Provides that this Act shall take effect on the first day of the second month which begins after the date of enactment. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314,315,411,413)
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that the retired or retainer pay of a member of the Armed Forces which is reduced to provide an annuity for the spouse of the member shall, for each full month during which such person is not married, be recomputed and paid as if the the retired or retainer pay of the member had not been so reduced. States that upon remarriage of the member, the retired or retainer pay shall be reduced by the appropriate percentage reduction. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1452 (g))
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Grants a Federal charter to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation with its principal offices in Indianapolis. States such Corporation's purposes, including: historical evidence relating to December 7, 1941, and to stimulate interest in the affairs and future of America so as to "keep America alert".
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Prohibits any change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status as a result of service in Southeast Asia, until the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973, have been fully complied with by North Vietnam or the President has determined and reported to Congress that all reasonable actions have been taken to account for such members.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides for the Federal incorporation of the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Sets forth the powers of such corporation. Provides that the corporation, and its officers and directors shall not contribute to or otherwise support or assist any political party or candidate for elective public office.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Authorizes additional payments to eligible veterans to partially defray the cost of tuition. Limits such payments to $600 for an ordinary school year. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1682).
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
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 existing provisions of law. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1726)
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Veterans Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Act - Defines "disability" for purposes of hospital, domiciliary 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 over a protracted period to assist the individual disabled veteran to achieve maximum utilization of his potential and to return to his or her family and community. 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. Provides that the treatment and rehabilitation shall be provided in VA 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. 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 to employ directly former addict veterans to work as counselors in treatment and rehabilitation programs without regard to the classification laws and regulations of the Civil Service. Establishes an entitlement to the full benefits of the vocational rehabilitation program for veterans accepting treatment and rehabilitation 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: (1) by utilizing and extending VA facilities and those of any other Federal or joint Federal-State agency; (2) by contracting with public or private institutions or establishments for additional suitable facilities; and (3) 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 and who the Administrator finds has been successfully recovered for at least one year after discharge from the rehabilitation program will be deemed to have been discharged from the Armed Forces under honorable conditions for the purpose of establishing eligibility for Veterans Administration benefits. Requires the Administrator to offer alternative modalities of treatment under this Act to each veteran depending upon 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. Requires the Administrator to make periodic progress reports to the appropriate Secretary on treatment of servicemen transferred under this Act and to return such servicemen to the appropriate Secretary when the servicemen refuse to cooperate or treatment would otherwise be of no further benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that the remarriage of the widow of a veteran after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a pension to each veteran who served in the active military, naval, or air service at any time during World War I and who is not eligible for other pension benefits. Defines World War I as meaning the period beginning on April 5, 1917, and ending on July 2, 1921. Provides for a schedule of pension payments under this Act. Provides that if the veteran is married and living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse, or has a child or children, the monthly rate of pension under this Act shall be $150. Provides that if the veteran is unmarried (or married but not living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse) and has no child, the monthly rate of pension shall be $135. Provides that if the veteran has a disability by reason of which he is permanently housebound, the monthly rate hereunder shall be increased by $50. Provides that veterans in need of regular aid and attendance shall have their monthly rates increased by $125. Directs the Administrator to pay to widows of veterans, receiving benefits under this Act at time of death, pension benefits as prescribed in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Permits eligible veterans pursuing full-time programs of education to elect to receive increased monthly educational assistance allowances and have their period of entitlement reduced proportionally. States that such increase may not be more than twice the normal entitlement. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1682(d)).
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
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: (1) 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 duty; and (2) 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 qualified 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 Veterans' Life Insurance Fund, wherein all premiums paid for Vietnam veterans' insurance will be deposited.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
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) direct support of such operations, and who is discharged or released from active duty under honorable conditions, shall 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 serivce, 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 former members of the Armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
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 allowances, educational assistance allowances, and special training allowances.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides additional educational benefits of up to $3000 for an ordinary school year, exclusive of living expenses, to veterans who have served in the Indochina theater of operations during the Vietnam era. Authorizes a monthly subsistence allowance based on the number of dependents and the extent of participation in the educational program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that with regard to 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)).
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Entitles specified veterans of the Mexican border period and of World War I and their widows and children to a veterans' pension benefit on the same basis as that accorded to veterans of the Spanish American War and their widows and children, respectively. Provides for an increase in pension rates applicable to such classes of veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that, for purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act, physicians and dentists appointed in the Medical or Dental Service of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration who have served 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 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. Authorizes leave with pay for service personnel who are pursuing additional studies in their field of speciality or in the field of hospital administration. Permits specified Department personnel to attend one professional meeting per year at Government expense.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to submit any changes in the ratings of reductions in earning capacity due to service-connected disabilities to the Congress which shall have ninety days to disaprove the change or readjustment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides additional educational benefits to Vietnam era veterans, including reimbursement for tuition, books and fees of up to $1,000 for an ordinary school year.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides for a pension of $100 per month for unremarried widows of men awarded a Medal of Honor posthumously. States that such pension shall be paid in addition to all other payments under laws of the United States and shall not be subject to attachment, execution, levy, tax, lien or detention. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 563)
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
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)
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pensions and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits which result from the enactment of Public Law 92-336 or any subsequent cost-of-living increase under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that veterans who serve two or more years in peacetime shall be entitled to a presumption that the chronic disease which is 10 percent or more disabling and which becomes manifest within one year from the date of separation from service is service connected. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 333)
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
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 to be 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 guarantee 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 with 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 this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pensions and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits which result from the enactment of Public Law 92-336 or any subsequent cost-of-living increase under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to authorize direct admission to public or private nursing homes of veterans requiring such care, at the expense of the United States Government. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 620(d))
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Authorizes the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of the veterans of World War I.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides for the payment of pensions of $200 per month to World War I veterans. Entitles such veterans who are in need of regular aid and attendance to an additional $100 monthly, or $35 monthly if such veteran is permanently housebound. Increases the amount of such pension by 10 percent for each such veteran who served overseas. Excludes from the benefits conferred by this Act any unmarried veteran whose annual income exceeds $3000, and any married veteran whose annual income exceeds $4200. Disregards amounts received from retirement plans in computing income eligibility for such pensions. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 513).
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Authorizes the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of the first enlisted women in the United States Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Authorizes the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of the veterans of the Spanish-American War.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides for a minimum enlistment in the Armed Forces of three years. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 615(a))
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
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 10 U.S.C. 1088)
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
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 · 17 March 1975
Provides that time spent by American civilians in enemy prisoner-of-war camps and similar places on or after December 7, 1941, shall be creditable (as though it were military service) toward pensions, annuities, or similar benefits under the Social Security Act, the Railroad Act and other specified Federal retirement programs.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Poland or Czechoslovakia who participated in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States during World War I or World War II, and who have been citizens of the United States for not less than 10 years. Provides that such hospital and medical care shall be available to the same extent as if such service had been performed in the Armed Forces of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Poland or Czechoslovakia who participated in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States during World War I or World War II, and who have been citizens of the United States for not less than 10 years. Provides that such hospital and medical care shall be available to the same extent as if such service had been performed in the Armed Forces of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
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. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations for calendar years after 1974.