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851 records in 1977
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Requires recomputation at a specified rate of the retired pay of any person who completed service as a sergeant major of the Marine Corps before September 16, 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to dispose of approximately 30,000 long tons of grade A tin now held in the national and supplemental stockpiles. Stipulates that such disposal shall be made on the domestic market for consumption within the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to (1) restore the entitlement of any person who lost their entitlement by reason of certain past increases in monthly social security benefits; and (2) pay in a lump sum to any such person any such compensation or pension that would have been payable to him but to such loss of entitlement.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Requires an increase in the annuities payable under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan to spouses or children of deceased members of the armed forces who died before March 20, 1974, whenever retired or retainer pay is increased to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. Makes such adjustments retroactive for retired or retainer pay adjustments since September 21, 1972. Makes adjustments regarding eligibility and the amounts payable under the Survivor Benefit Plan of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pensions and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in social security benefits. Applies to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Makes it unlawful for any individual or entity to solicit to enroll or enroll any member of the armed forces in any labor organization or for any member to encourage others to join or to actively support any military labor organization. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income the first $5,000 received by an individual for service during less-than-30 day periods as a member of the National Guard or a reserve component of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Authorizes the recomputation at age 60 of the retired or retainer pay for members or former members of the uniformed services whose retired or retainer pay was computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972 in order to reflect any retired or retainer pay increases for other members which was based on changes in the Consumer Price Index since that date.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Stipulates that no veteran may be denied care or treatment under the Champus program for any service-connected disability solely because care or treatment for such disability is available at Veterans' Administration medical facilities. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1086)
Germany · German Bundestag · 28 January 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 28 January 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 28 January 1977
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into contracts to include cargo airlift characteristics suitable for defense purposes in new civil aircraft being manufactured for passenger and cargo use and to modify existing civil passenger aircraft to incorporate such characteristics for such purpose. Stipulates that such aircraft shall be used for defense purposes in the event the full Civil Reserve Air Fleet is activated. Sets forth the percentage of the costs of construction or modification which the Federal government shall bear pursuant to such contracts. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives regarding such program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assist any veteran, who has a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, of one arm and one leg, including but not limited to cases of hemiplegia, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair, in acquiring a suitable housing unit with special fixtures or moveable facilities made necessary by the nature of the veteran's disability, and necessary land therefor.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Removes the time limitation within which programs of education for veterans must be completed. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Awards one preference point to qualified National Guard and Armed Forces Reserve veterans applying for employment in the civil service. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 2108, 3309)
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Authorizes the issuance of immigration visas to aliens who are natives of the Philippines, who served in any United States Armed Force during World War II and who were separated from such service under honorable conditions. Exempts such individuals from paying any fees for such visas.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Extends up to three years the delimiting period of educational benefits paid by the Veterans' Administration to any veteran who was enrolled as a full-time student pursuing an approved course of education when his eligibility expired, or was enrolled as a part-time student receiving educational benefits, a loan or compensation under a program provided for in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Authorizes the acceleration of educational assistance allowance payments to veterans whose tuition and fees for the regular academic year or comparable period of enrollment are in excess of $750, and for whom such acceleration will enable the attainment of the veteran's predetermined and identified educational objective within the entitlement period.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide comprehensive counseling services, including but not limited to vocational and educational counseling, to any veteran who requests them. Requires the Administrator to carry out an effective outreach program to acquaint all eligible veterans with the availability of such counseling.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
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 a non-service connected disability pension. Directs the Administrator to pay medical services costs required outside Veterans' Administration facilities if travel to such facilities would be a burden for the veteran. Provides for survivor pensions for the widows of such veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Directs the Administrator of General Services to purchase property which is suitable for use as a training facility by the Texas National Guard equal in value to the interest held by the Texas National Guard Armory Board in specified property. Directs the Administrator and the Texas National Guard Armory Board to exchange such purchased and presently owned properties for one another.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Makes it unlawful for any individual or entity to solicit to enroll or enroll any member of the armed forces in any labor organization, or for any member of the armed forces to join, or encourage other members to join, any labor union. Prescribes a penalty of not more than five years imprisonment for any individual violating this Act, and a fine of not less than $25,000 nor more than $50,000 for any labor organization in violation of this Act. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 975)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Veterans' Pension Act - Reduces the number of items excluded in the determination of income for veterans who have a non-service-connected disability. Sets flat pension rates for specified categories of such veterans and also for widows and children of Mexican border period, World War I, World War II, Korean conflict or Vietnam era veterans. Provides for continuance, even though income status changes, of amount paid to veterans with a permanent and total disability rating or who are in need of regular care and attendance. Requires cost-of-living increases in the rates payable to persons affected by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Permits certain veterans with service-connected disabilities, regardless of disability rating, who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Makes it unlawful for any individual or entity to solicit to enroll or enroll any member of the armed forces in any labor organization, or for any member of the armed forces to join, or encourage other members to join, any labor union. Prescribes a penalty of not more than five years imprisonment for any individual violating this Act, and a fine of not less than $25,000 nor more than $50,000 for any labor organization in violation of this Act. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 975)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Mustering-Out Payment Act - Revises the eligibility requirements for mustering-out payments by removing criteria stipulating active duty during the Korean conflict and an honorable discharge. Grants eligibility to members of the Armed Forces who served on active duty for 90 days or more during the Vietnam era and who were discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable. Denies benefits to any individual on account of service as a commissioned officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Increases the amount of mustering-out payments: (1) from $300 to $350 for persons who, having performed active duty for 60 days or more, have served outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska; and (2) from @200 to $250 for persons who, having performed active duty for 60 days or more have served no part thereof outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska. Changes the time limitations: (1) for entitlement, to discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions before the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) for application, to any time within two years after the date of enactment of this Act. Declares that mustering-out payments shall now be assignable. Disqualifies recipients of mustering-out payments from receiving unemployment compensation with respect to weeks of unemployment completed within 60 days after discharge or release.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make annual adjustments in monthly rates of disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation according to cost-of-living changes in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Stipulates that no veteran may be denied care or treatment under the Champus program for any service-connected disability solely because care or treatment for such disability is available at Veterans' Administration medical facilities. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1086)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Makes it unlawful for any individual or entity to solicit to enroll or enroll any member of the armed forces in any labor organization, or for any member of the armed forces to join, or encourage other members to join, any labor union. Prescribes a penalty of not more than five years imprisonment for any individual violating this Act, and a fine of not less than $25,000 nor more than $50,000 for any labor organization in violation of this Act. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 975)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Provides that pension or compensation payments made to a hospitalized incompetent veteran will not be terminated unless his estate exceeds $3,000 (currently $1,500); and in the event of such termination, payments will be resumed when such veteran's estate has been reduced to $1,000 (currently $500).
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a national cemetery in each State in which there is no national cemetery and to provide for the maintenance and care of each such cemetery. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire such land as may be necessary to establish each such cemetery, leaving location and size to the Secretary's discretion. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay, in addition to any other burial allowance authorized to be paid, an additional burial allowance of $400 for any deceased veteran interred in other than a national cemetery. Prohibits any deduction for any reason from this additional burial allowance.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Requires an increase in the annuities payable under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan to spouses or children of deceased members of the armed forces who died before March 20, 1974, whenever retired or retainer pay is increased to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. Makes such adjustments retroactive for retired or retainer pay adjustments since September 21, 1972. Makes adjustments regarding eligibility and the amounts payable under the Survivor Benefit Plan of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Northern Irish Relief Act - Authorizes the issuance of 25,000 special immigrant visas to British citizens who are residents of Northern Ireland and who are seeking admission into the United States to avoid the consequences of war, armed conflict, civil disorder or persecution. Authorizes such special visas to aliens from Northern Ireland who would be eligible to enter the United States pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act but for the fact that a visa is not immediately available under such Act. Exempts the provisions of this Act from British citizens who are residents of Northern Ireland seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor. Exempts aliens receiving a visa under this Act from paying the fees required by the Immigration and Nationality Act. Allows an alien already in this country on a nonimmigrant visa who is eligible for a visa under this Act to adjust his status to that of a permanent resident.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should establish a Presidential task force to advise the President with respect to actions which may be taken to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans who are prisoners of war or missing in Southeast Asia as a result of the Vietnam conflict and to recommend to the President the adoption of national policies with respect to prisoners of war and individuals who are missing in action.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1977
Directs that National Guard technicians rendering certain services prior to January 1, 1969 be considered to have been in the employment of the Department of the Army or the Department of the Air Force for the purposes of computing civil service retirement benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1977
Authorizes the establishment of a National Guard for Guam. (Amends 32 U.S.C. 101)
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to retain reserve officers of the Army in an active status until age 60 except first lieutenants, captains, and majors who have not been recommended for promotion by two selection boards.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1977
Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments, under such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe, to reimburse non-appropriated fund instrumentalities in the Ryukyu Islands and Daito Islands, Japan, for increased costs in severance pay entitlements of their Japanese employees whose severance pay computation was changed effective May 15, 1972 pursuant to the treaty which reverted such islands to Japan. Authorizes appropriations in such amounts as may be necessary for such reimbursements.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1977
Provides to veterans with a total service-connected disability the right to travel on a space-available basis on unscheduled military flights within the continental United States and on scheduled overseas flights operated by the Military Airlift Command.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Declares that time spent by civilian citizens and permanent residents of the United States in prisoner-of-war camps, internment centers, or similar places, on or after December 7, 1941 shall be considered; (1) service in the active military or naval service for purposes of certain veterans' benefits; (2) military service during war for purposes of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937; (3) military service for purposes of Civil Service retirement; and (4) active service for purposes of Armed Forces retirement pay.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Amends the Maritime Academy Act of 1958 to increase the subsistence payments to students at State maritime academies from $600 to $1200 per academic year.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a pension to each veteran who served in the active military, naval, or air service for 90 days or more during World War I; during World War I and was discharged or released for a service-connected disability; or for a period of 90 consecutive days or more and such period began or ended during World War I; and who is not eligible for a non-service connected disability pension. Directs the Administrator to pay medical services costs required outside Veterans' Administration facilities if travel to such facilities would be a burden for the veteran. Provides for survivor pensions for the widows of such veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Removes the requirement that a dependent of, or a member of the uniformed services go to a nonprofit medical facility to receive institutional care in order to be eligible for medical benefits. Allows pregnant wives of members who died while eligible for hostile fire pay to receive medical care for that pregnancy on the same basis as that prescribed for dependents of members who are on active duty.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide chiropractic care to any eligible veteran for outpatient medical treatment upon the request of the veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Declares it the sense of Congress that all portions of the officially designated National System of Interstate and Defense Highways shall be free from tolls. Entitles each State having any portion of a free or toll highway bridge or tunnel which is part of the Interstate System to receive additional funds from the Highway Trust Fund for the removal of such toll facilities and the completion of the Interstate System within such State. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to deliver to Congress an estimate of the September 30, 1978, depreciated value of toll and free facilities incorporated in the Interstate System. Specifies criteria for determining such depreciation value. Allows a reimbursement of 90 percent of such depreciated value which remove tolls or presently operate free highway facilities Decreases Federal-aid highway apportionments for States not electing to eliminate tolls from facilities within the Interstate System. (Adds 23 USC 156)
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require air carriers to provide half-fare air transportation on a space-available basis to disabled veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Extends outpatient dental services and treatment to any veteran who has a service-connected disability rated 60 percent or more.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assign and pay the applicable rate of compensation for full service-connected disability to a veteran who has suffered the loss or loss of use of one limb such as to cause total disability, as a result of a non-service-connected disability not the result of his own willful misconduct.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Entitles members of the armed forces reserves who were on active duty after August 13, 1961, and before May 31, 1963, or after August 4, 1964, and before March 28, 1973, or who completed at least 20 years of service after August 15, 1945, to retired pay.