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Bill· SS. 364 (95th)referred

Veterans Administration Administrative Procedure and Judicial Review Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Veterans' Administration Administrative Procedure and Judicial Review Act - Provides that the decisions of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration providing benefits for veterans and their dependents or survivors shall be subject to judicial review. Directs that all rules, regulations, orders and any other determination of any kind made by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs be subject to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. Repeals the requirement that the Administrator determine and pay fees to agents or attorneys in allowed claims for monetary benefits.

Bill· SS. 326 (95th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 34 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to extend, under certain circumstances, the period within which a veteran must complete a program of education under such chapter.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Extends the delimiting period within which a veteran must complete a program of education when such veteran can demonstrate a compelling reason for his or her inability to complete a program within the delimiting period otherwise applicable.

Bill· HRH.R. 2230 (95th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 49 of title 10, United States Code, to prohibit union organization in the Armed Forces.

United States · United States Congress · 19 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)

Bill· HRH.R. 2231 (95th)referred

Comprehensive Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Comprehensive Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act - Title I: Educational Assistance Program Amendments - Redefines the qualifying service period of an "eligible veteran" to be the period from August 4, 1964 to January 1, 1977; and redesignates as an "eligible peacetime post-Korean veteran" anyone whose qualifying service period fell between January 31, 1955, and August 5, 1964; and entitles both "eligible veterans" and "eligible peacetime post-Korean veterans" to all benefits, services and loans available under the educational assistance program. Extends from 36 to 45 months the period of eligibility for receiving educational assistance (this provision currently exist, 38 U.S.C. 1661 (a)). Sets conditions for extending the ten-year delimiting period for receipt of assistance up to a maximum of two additional years. Provides that counseling offered by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to veterans eligible for educational assistance may include assisting any veteran: (1) to select the occupation or training objective suitable to personal circumstances, characteristics, financial resources, dependent responsibilities and other relevant factors; (2) to select the occupation or training objective which will provide reasonable opportunities for employment and with job satisfaction after development of the required job skills; (3) to select the educational institution that will effectively assist in attaining educational or vocational objectives; and (4) to develop a program of education that will lead to a recognized and predetermined educational, vocational, technical, or professional objective within the veteran's period of entitlement. Directs the Administrator to take such measures as may be necessary, including denial of applications or disapproval of courses, to insure that no aspect of the educational assistance program is used for the purpose of income supplementation, unemployment compensation, or adjusted compensation. Allows continued payments to veterans enrolled in institutions not complying with provisions of the Act if such veterans are not at fault for the noncompliance. Provides an accelerated educational assistance allowance, not to exceed twice the ordinary monthly amount, to be granted, after appropriate counseling, to an eligible veteran or person who demonstrates need for the acceleration. Stipulates the categories of persons most likely to need a program of acceleration. Limits any program of accelerated assistance allowances to five years. Title II: War Orphans' and Widows' Educational Assistance Program Amendments - Allows the ten-year period of eligibility for educational assistance for the spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability to run from the wedding date of the spouse and such veteran. Entitles eligible war orphans and widows to accelerated educational assistance allowances. Title III: Administration of Educational Benefits - Extends the coverage of existing administrative provisions of the educational assistance program to all branches and extensions of an educational institution. Directs the Administrator to establish between the Administration, the State approving agencies and nationally recognized accrediting agencies and associations, an exchange of information pertaining to activities of educational institutions, especially to the enforcement of approval standard and enrollment restrictions and fraudulent and other criminal activities on the part of persons connected with the institution; and directs the Administrator to furnish the U.S. Attorney General, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and other Federal, State and local agencies such information and assistance as may be necessary to preclude abuses or enhance the effectiveness of the programs established hereunder. Requires educational institutions to transmit to State approving agencies catalogs or bulletins certified as true, current and correct both in content and policy by an authorized school official. Requires the State approving agencies to find as a condition of approval, adequate standards of progress established and clearly defined, and to find that an institution and its programs of education are in every aspect, portion, element, and division in full compliance with the law. Revises the criteria for approval of nonaccredited courses. Requires all advertising, promotion, sales techniques, claims and personnel employed by or representing the institution and branches or extensions offering nonaccredited courses to be in compliance with all applicable State and Federal licensing regulations and laws. Permits the Administrator to disapprove any institution of program of education approved as accredited if it fails to comply with any of specified provisions of law. Makes any advance payment of initial educational assistance or subsistence allowance conditional, and denies such advance payments to those entitled to receive accelerated payments. Requires the application for conditional advance payments to indicate that the eligible veteran or person had requested such, that it is necessary and appropriated to meet specific expenses, and that such expenses shall reasonably equal or exceed the amount of conditional advance payment. Requires the Administrator to set up an appeals procedure for administrative proceedings involving property loss resulting from a decision to terminate or modify an eligible veteran's or person's educational benefits. Increases from $3 and $4 to $8 and $10 respectively the fees paid to educational institutions in reimbursement for reports and certifications. Directs the Administrator to refer to the U.S. Attorney General any deliberate, premeditated, or willful misconduct or illegal action of a significant nature or involving a significant sum of money stemming from overpayments occasioned by a false or misleading report by an educational institution. Sets new conditions for the enrollment of an eligible veteran or person in a program of correspondence or residence-correspondence. Denies approval of enrollment in an institution in any way affiliated with a proprietary institution or profitmaking operation which affects any program of education provided eligible veterans and persons unless such program meets all the requirements of the law. Requires the Administrator to notify any eligible veteran or eligible person of any available vocational assistance alternatives and of any legal recourse when it disapproves an institution or discontinues anyone's educational assistance. Requires the Administrator, upon determination that the interruption of failure of a person's program was due in whole or in part to problems of personal adjustment, to advise such person of available counseling services and vocational, educational and psychological assistance. Establishes with the Veterans Administration an Interagency Veterans' Advisory Task Force to advise and assist the Administrator, among other things, in: (1) the review of the effectiveness and coordination of all rights and services authorized for veterans; (2) the development and implementation of studies of the effectiveness of laws applicable to veterans and eligible persons; (3) the monitoring and evaluation and preclusion of abuses of veterans' adjustment assistance programs; (4) the investigation of allegations indicating that veterans are being denied rights, benefit,or assistance; and (5) the appraisal of Federal laws, appropriations, and policies meeting the readjustment needs of veterans. Directs the Task Force to serve as a national clearinghouse for information and assistance relating to the needs of veterans, and to serve as an advocate for the correction of problems and the preclusion of abuses. Establishes within the Task Force a section on enforcement and implementation of laws, a section on the evaluation and accreditation of military experience, and an Advisory Committee to take over the duties and responsibilities of the current advisory committee, with special emphasis on the inclusion and participation of veterans receiving or requiring readjustment assistance. Empowers the Task Force and its sections to issue subpenas. Requires the Task Force to report to Congress within one year of enactment its findings and recommendations for post-Vietnam era readjustment assistance programs. Sets maximum aggregate education loan amounts for eligible persons with no, one, two, or more dependents. Title IV: Miscellaneous Veterans Program Amendments - Requires the Veterans' Administration to adjust its adjudication criteria and under no circumstances to determine eligibility for veterans' benefits for ex-servicemen with other than honorable discharges with either less lenient or more restrictive criteria and procedures that those used by the various military departments in the review and upgrading of other than honorable discharges. Title V: Employment and Training of Disabled and Vietnam-era Veterans - Creates within the Department of Labor a separate agency to be known as the Veterans' Employment Service which shall be headed by an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment. Title VI: Veterans' Administration: Miscellaneous Amendments - Directs the Administrator to initiate a comprehensive outreach and information program to inform veterans of the programs and services made available by this Act. Directs the veterans' representatives to carry out such outreach and information assistance services. Requires both the Administrator and the veterans' representatives especially to assist veterans whose educational benefits have ended because of the expiration of their delimiting period to obtain alternative means of completing their education and training.

Bill· HRH.R. 2117 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that monthly social security benefit payments and annuity payments under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 shall not be included as income for the purpose of determining eligibility for certain veterans' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Provides that monthly social security benefit payments and annuity payments under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 shall not be included as income for the purpose of determining eligibility for certain veterans' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation paid by the Veterans' Administration.

Bill· HRH.R. 2120 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to provide that monthly social security benefit payments and annuity and pension payments under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 shall not be included as income for the purpose of determining eligibility for, and the amount of, veterans' or widows' pensions, and parents' compensation.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Provides that monthly social security benefit payments and annuity payments under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 shall not be included as income for the purpose of determining eligibility for certain veterans' and widows' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation paid by the Veterans' Administration.

Bill· HRH.R. 2114 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code so as to provide that public or private retirement, annuity, or endowment payments, including monthly social security insurance benefits, shall not be included in computing annual income for the purpose of determining eligibility for a pension under chapter 15 of that title.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Provides that public or private retirement, annuity, or endowment payments (including monthly social security insurance benefits) shall not be included in computing annual income for the purpose of determining eligibility for a service pension or a non-service-connected disability pension paid by the Veterans' Administration.

Bill· HRH.R. 2119 (95th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 15 of title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of pension of $150 per month to World War I veterans, subject to a $3,540 and $4,760 annual income limitation; to provide that retirement income such as social security shall not be counted as income; to provide that such pension shall be increased by 10 percent where the veteran served overseas during World War I.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Authorizes the payment of $150 per month as a pension to World War I veterans, subject to a $3,540 or a $4,760 annual income limitation, depending on marital status. Provides that retirement income shall not be counted as income in the determination of annual income for purposes of pensions under this Act. Provides that such pension shall be increased by ten percent where the veteran served overseas during World War I.

Bill· HRH.R. 2098 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 19 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 1976.

Bill· HRH.R. 2072 (95th)referred

A bill to insure 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.

United States · United States Congress · 19 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.

Bill· HRH.R. 2079 (95th)referred

A bill to repeal a restriction on the availability of health care under the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services (CHAMPUS).

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Amends the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1977, to repeal the prohibition of expenditure of funds for claims for nonemergency inpatient hospital care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) when such care was available at a facility of the uniformed services within a 40-mile radius of the patient's residence.

Bill· HRH.R. 2025 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to provide that the fees payable to agents or attorneys who represent veterans in allowed claims under the veterans laws shall be paid by the Administrator rather than deducted from amounts awarded under the claims.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Provides that the fees payable to agents or attorneys who represent veterans in allowed claims under the veterans laws shall be paid by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs rather than deducted from amounts awarded under the claims.

Bill· HRH.R. 2039 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the regionalization and traveling of discharge review panels; to establish guidelines for review and correction of military discharge; to provide for legal counsel for discharge applicants; to provide for the recognition of exemplary post-service conduct through the issuance of an honorable discharge (limited); and to otherwise expand and enhance the effectiveness of the Armed Forces discharge review procedures.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Directs the Secretaries of the various armed forces to establish discharge review boards and panels and to geographically disburse such panels on the basis of population concentrations of discharge applicants. Requires such panels to travel to areas where a reasonable number of applications for review have been filed. Directs the discharge review boards and panels to review any discharge or dismissal from the armed forces granted under other than fully honorable conditions upon their own motion or upon the request of the former member or the representative of a former member. Directs the review board or panel to determine whether such discharge was fair and equitable, or in the interest of justice, by standards current at the time of review, taking into consideration all the circumstances of the case. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish guidelines and directives to be followed by the review boards and panels including specified mitigating and extenuating circumstances. Stipulates that the presence of strong mitigating factors shall normally warrant the upgrading of an other than fully dishonorable discharge to an honorable discharge, unless they are offset by serious aggravating factors which have a direct relationship to the issuance of an other than fully honorable discharge. Authorizes a review board or panel to issue an honorable discharge (limited) to individuals who were discharged under less than honorable conditions if such individuals have rehabilitated themselves and their conduct, activities and habits since being granted original discharge have been exemplary. Stipulates that such new discharge certificate shall be the same as a fully honorable discharge for all records and information pertaining to the individual. Stipulates that no benefits under any laws shall automatically be afforded to any individual issued an honorable discharge (limited) unless such an individual would have been entitled to such benefits under the original discharge or dismissal. Sets forth the procedures which review boards and panels must follow regarding review hearings. Requires the Government to provide legal counsel or assistance as may be necessary to insure that an applicant is competent to present a claim for review, in clear cases of need. Directs the Secretary of Defense to carry out a public information program designed to inform former members of the armed services of the new discharge review program under this Act. Requires each Secretary of the various services concerned to prepare a semiannual report on the functions, problems, and accomplishments of the review boards and panels established under this Act. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1553)

Bill· HRH.R. 2015 (95th)referred

A bill to require the discharge certificates issued to members of the Armed Forces not indicate the conditions or reasons for discharge, to limit the separation of enlisted members under conditions other than honorable, and to improve the procedures for the review of discharges and dismissals.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Directs the Secretary of Defense to take such action as may be necessary to insure that military discharges only indicate that a member of the armed forces has been discharged without any indication of the conditions under which such discharge occurred and that all records or documents pertaining to the reasons for discharge be kept confidential and not disclosed without the prior approval of the member concerned, except where such separation was pursuant to a sentence of a court-martial. Sets forth the conditions under which a member of the armed forces may be separated from the service under less than honorable conditions. Sets forth procedures for the establishment of review panels to determine whether a member should be separated under less than honorable conditions. Establishes procedures which the review boards must follow regarding such determinations. Allows members to appeal review board decisions to appeal boards to be established by the Judge Advocate General concerned or the General Counsel of the Department of Transportation, as appropriate. Directs each of the Secretaries concerned to establish regional boards of review to review military discharges within 15 years after such separation either on its own motion or the motion of the member concerned or the representative of such member. Establishes procedures for such review.

Bill· HRH.R. 2011 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize appropriations during the fiscal year 1978 for procurement of naval vessels.

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977

Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for fiscal year 1978 for the procurement of naval vessels for the armed forces. Prohibits the obligation of funds authorized under this Act for the DD6-47 guided missile destroyer program for material or components which are not suitable for use in a nuclear powered strike cruiser until the President has made certain determinations and has reported them to the Congress.

Bill· SS. 317 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to provide service pensions to certain veterans of World War I and pensions to the widows of such veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 18 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.

Bill· SS. 309 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize recomputation of age 60 of the retired pay of members and former members of the uniformed services whose retired pay is computed on the basis of the pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972.

United States · United States Congress · 18 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.

Law· SS. 274 (95th)open

An Act to amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit union organization of the armed forces, membership in military labor organizations by members of the armed forces, and recognition of military labor organizations by the Government, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 18 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.

Bill· HRH.R. 1957 (95th)referred

Veterans and Dependents Psychological Readjustment Assistance Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1977

Veterans and Dependents Psychological Readjustment Assistance Act - States that for purposes of this Act the term "veteran" means any person who served in the active military service since August 10, 1964, who was discharged under conditions other than dishonorable, and who is in need of the services provided under this Act because of performance of such service, because of a service-connected disability, or because of problems attributable to or caused by readjustment from such service. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out a program for the treatment, readjustment, and rehabilitation of veterans and their dependents who are experiencing psychosocial readjustment problems as a result of military service, or as a result of problems evolving from readjustment from such service. States that such program shall include such psychiatric, psychological, and counseling services as may be necessary to provide for the successful treatment of the veteran or dependent. Allows such services to be provided outside Veterans' Administration facilities under certain circumstances. Directs the Administrator to conduct or contract for comprehensive studies of the psychological and sociological effects of the Vietnam war upon veterans and their dependents. Stipulates that participation in the program established by this Act shall be completely voluntary and shall not be a prerequisite to receipt of any other veterans' services.

Bill· HRH.R. 1951 (95th)referred

A bill to revise the laws governing appointments to the service academies so as to relieve Members of Congress from the responsibility of making nominations for appointments thereto.

United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1977

Terminates the authority of Members of Congress and Delegates to Congress from the various territories to make appointments to the various service academies. Terminates the authority of the Secretaries of the military departments to appoint members of the reserve components of the armed forces to the academies except under certain circumstances. Directs the Board of Visitors of the Military, Naval, and Air Force academies to inquire into the admission policy and procedure of these academies on their annual visit and to send their annual report to the Congress as well as the President. Directs the Board of Visitors of the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine academies to inquire into specified subject areas including admission policies and procedures on their annual visit and to report to the Congress as well as the President regarding their findings. Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to accomplish the purposes of this Act with respect to the Merchant Marine Academy.

Bill· SS. 229 (95th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 35 of title 38, United States Code, to permit children who are eligible for educational assistance under such chapter to pursue a program of education under such chapter exclusively by correspondence.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977

Permits education assistance for correspondence programs of education to children of certain categories of veterans and members of the Armed Forces on active duty. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1734(b))

Bill· SS. 221 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to set aside and clear a certain portion of the Island of Kahoolawe, Hawaii, as a pilot project to determine the feasibility and cost factors of clearing the entire island and surrounding waters of naval ordnance which is on such island and in such waters as the result of such island being used as a target range.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977

Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Navy to conduct a pilot project on the island of Kahoolawe, Hawaii, to determine the feasibility and cost of clearing the island and surrounding waters of naval ordnance and other debris resulting from the use of such island as a target range by the United States Navy. Authorizes appropriations in such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Bill· SS. 236 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Veterans' Education and Employment Assistance Act of 1976.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977

Eliminates the provision in the Veterans' Assistance and Employment Act of 1976 which prohibits colleges and universities from receiving Veterans' Administration educational benefits for classes in which more than 85 percent of the enrollment is composed of students having their fees paid either by the Federal Government or the institutions themselves.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 5 (95th)referred

A concurrent resolution relating to diplomatic recognition of Vietnam.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977

Declares it the sense of the Congress that the United States should oppose United Nations membership of Vietnam and deny diplomatic recognition to Vietnam until that country cooperates in securing a satisfactory accounting of Americans missing in action and unaccounted for in the territory under Vietnamese control.

Bill· HRH.R. 1897 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 1903 of title 38, United States Code, to provide a direct long term low interest loan for the replacement of an automobile or other conveyance previously provided under chapter 39 of this title.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Provides to each eligible person for whom the Veterans' Administration has purchased an automobile with specially adapted equipment a loan, not to exceed $5,000, for the purpose of replacing the automobile or conveyance so purchased. Limits the interest on such loan to no more than six percent annually, repayable over a term of four years, and limits the number of such loans to one per eligible person.

Bill· HRH.R. 1893 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 to provide for preferential enrollment of disabled veterans in programs under that Act.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Amends the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 to require that disabled veterans be given opportunities to participate in the comprehensive manpower services programs and the public service employment programs thereunder at a rate in excess of the rate of unemployment among such veterans. Directs that special consideration be given disabled veterans in the public service employment programs. Specifies disabled veterans as a group eligible for additional manpower services under such Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 1889 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 3104 of title 38, United States Code, to permit certain service-connected disabled veterans who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either.

United States · United States Congress · 13 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.

Bill· HRH.R. 1918 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to make certain that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 13 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.

Bill· HRH.R. 1869 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 3012 of title 38, United States Code, to extend to 120 days the period between notice of, and the effective date for, the reduction or discontinuance of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Extends from 60 to 120 days the period between notice of, and the effective date for, the reduction or discontinuance of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension paid by the Veterans' Administration.

Bill· HRH.R. 1888 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code with respect to the computation of the ten year period in which wives and widows may pursue programs of education.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to compute the ten-year period in which wives and widows of veterans may pursue programs of education as beginning at the date of death of the spouse from whom eligibility is derived (such authority currently exists).

Bill· HRH.R. 1898 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the repayment of the Federal excise tax on gasoline which is used for personal purposes by certain disabled veterans who are entitled to grants for automobiles with special equipment.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide either a refund or an income tax credit for Federal gasoline excise taxes paid by disabled veterans for fueling specially equipped motor vehicles for their personal use.

Bill· HRH.R. 1894 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to authorize a presumption of service connection for cause of death in certain cases involving veterans who had been rated permanently and totally disabled due to service-connected disability for at least 1 year immediately preceding death.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Authorizes a presumption of service connection for cause of death for the purposes of payment of dependency and indemnity compensation in the case of a veteran who had a service-connected disability rated permanent and total for at least one year immediately preceding death, if death was due to natural causes not the result of misconduct on the part of such veteran.

Bill· HRH.R. 1880 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include synthetic fuels which may be used as fuels under title III.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to authorize the President to make commitments to purchase or otherwise encourage the use or development of synthetic fuels which are produced by the conversion of renewable and nonrenewable resources into fuel. Authorizes the President to make subsidy payments for domestically-produced raw materials necessary for national defense where the market price of such materials is inadequate so as to assure maximum production. Authorizes the President to install additional equipment, facilities, and processes in industrial facilities when the President deems such action necessary for the national defense. Authorizes the President to transfer excess products obtained under this Act to the national stockpile. Establishes a ceiling of $2,000,000,000 on all obligations incurred under this Act, which may not be exceeded without the approval of Congress.

Bill· HRH.R. 1890 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that certain persons with a service-connected disability of 30 percent or more, will have two years in which to apply for service Disabled Veterans Insurance (RH).

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Authorizes a person who has been released from active service and who suffers an increase in a service-connected disability to 30 percent or more to apply for National Service Life Insurance anytime within two years from the date that the increase in the service-connected disability is determined by the Veterans' Administration.

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