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951 records in 1973
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Makes a veteran eligible for a pension allowance if he was in active military duty for any period of time during World War I (presently 90 days required). (Amends 38 U.S.C. 521(g)(1),(2),(3))
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Provides for the burial in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, of the remains of an unknown American who lost his life while serving overseas in the Armed Forces of the United States during the Vietnam conflict. Authorizes such appropriations as necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Provides that, in determining the annual income of any individual for veterans' pension and compensation purposes, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall disregard any increase in benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) brought about by Public Law 92-336 to which a veteran might be entitled, or any subsequent cost-of-living increase in such benefits occurring pursuant to the Social Security Act. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 415(g)(4), 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Requires termination by July 1, 1975, of all weapons range activities conducted on or near the island of Culebra complex of the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range. Prohibits funds from being appropriated by the Congress after such date.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Requires termination by July 1, 1975, of all weapons range activities conducted on or near the island of Culebra complex of the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range. Prohibits funds from being appropriated by the Congress after such date.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Authorizes members of the Armed Forces and Federal employees who were in a missing status for any period during the Vietnam conflict to receive double credit for such period for retirement purposes. Provides for the payment of pay and allowances for such period to individuals in an amount equal to that which they would have received if they has been stationed during such period in Saigon, South Vietnames and had no Government quarters furnished and no Government messing facilities available. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1405(b), 559; 5 U.S.C. 8332(l), 5562(e))
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Declares that the Senate supports a broad interpretation of the Geneva protocol and in so doing it recommends that the United States be willing, on the basis of reciprocity, to refrain from the use in war of all toxic chemical weapons whether directed against man, animals, or plants.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Authorizes the apportionment of funds for the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for fiscal years 1974 and 1975, based on the factors contained in table 5, House Committee Print numbered 92-29.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay to each veteran of World War I who meets service requirements a specified pension. Provides for pension payments to the widow, or to the children of World War I veterans if there is no widow. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 512, 536, 537)
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Authorizes the apportionment of funds for the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for fiscal years 1974 and 1975, based on the factors contained in table 5, House Committee Print numbered 92-29.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Provides that, in determining the annual income of any individual for veterans' pension and compensation purposes, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall disregard any increase in benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) brought about by Public Law 92-336 to which a veteran might be entitled, or any subsequent cost-of-living increase in such benefits occurring pursuant to the Social Security Act. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 415(g)(4), 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
National Overseas Education Act - Creates within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Overseas Education Board consisting of 8 members having responsibility for the elementary and secondary eduction of overseas dependents of military and civilian personnel. Gives the Board powers to carry out the provisions of this act. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Transfers the Coast Guard to the Department of Defense, and vests in the Secretary of Defense all functions, powers, and duties of the Secretary of Transportation and of other officers and offices of the Department of Transportation relating to the Coast Guard. Provides that the Coast Guard shall operate as a part of the Navy in time of war or when the President shall so direct. States that a member of the Coast Guard on active duty may be assigned to any position in the Department of Defense for which members of the Armed Forces are otherwise eligible. Provides that so much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended appropriations available in connection with the functions transferred by this Act shall be transferred to the Department of Defense.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Uniformed Services Retirement Pay Equalization Act - Provides that the retired pay of each retired officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps shall be computed on the basis of rates of pay provided by law at the time of his retirement or subsequently enacted for officers on the active list. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 6149)
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Deems disabilities involving the loss of one or more limbs by an individual and incurred pursuant to State National Guard service during World War I to be service-connected for purposes of veterans compensation for service-connected disabilities. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make specified lump-sum payments to such individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Restores the wartime recognition of specified Filipino veterans of World War II. Entitles such veterans to those veterans benefits, rights, and priviliges which result from such recognition.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Increases the amount of coverage under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance plan: (1) from $15,000 to $50,000 automatic insurance for any member of the uniformed service on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training scheduled in advance by competent authority; (2) from $10,000 and $5,000 to $25,000 and $10,000 respectively, the amount of insurance coverage servicemen may elect in lieu of (1) above; and (3) from $15,000 and $10,000 to $50,000 and $25,000 respectively, the amount of insurance that may be elected subsequent to an initial waiver of all insurance. Provides that the United States shall bear all cost attributable to the increase in the amount of insurance coverage made available by reason of this Act. Provides that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall pay to any individual who after September 28, 1965, and before the effective date of this Act was a beneficiary of a Servicemen's Group Life Insurance policy: (1) $35,000 if the individual received, or was entitled to, the amount of $10,000 as such beneficiary; or (2) the amount of $5,000 if the individual received, or was entitled to, the amount of $5,000 as such beneficiary. Provides that each policy of United States Government Life Insurance or National Service Life Insurance in force on the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have been issued in the amount of $50,000. Provides that the total expense for such increase shall be borne by the United States. Provides that the Administrator shall pay to any individual who after June 27, 1950, and before the date of the enactment of this Act was a beneficiary of a United States Government Life Insurance or National Service Life Insurance policy an amount which shall be equal to $50,000 less the amount which such individual received, or was entitled to, as such beneficiary. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Provides, for purposes of computing retired pay for members of the Armed Forces, an additional credit of service equal to all periods of time spent by any such member as a prisoner of war.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Limits the procurement of California and Arizona lettuce by the Department of Defense during the 1973-74 fiscal years to the amount procured from such States in fiscal year 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Provides that in the absence of a declaration of war by the Congress or of a military attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, the Armed Forces of the United States shall not be committed to combat or introduced into a situation where combat is imminent or likely at any place outside of the United States, its territories and possession, without prior notice to and specific prior authorization by the Congress, except in case of emergency or necessity, the existence of which emergency or necessity is to be determined by the President of the United States. Provides that whenever, in the absence of a declaration of war by the Congress or of a military attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, the President of the United States nevertheless determines that an emergency or necessity exists which justifies such action, and shall, by consequence, commit the Armed Forces of the United States to combat or shall introduce them into a situation where combat is imminent or likely at any place outside of the United States, its territories or possessions, without prior notice to and authorization by the Congress, the President shall report such action to the Congress in writing, as expeditiously as possible and, in all events, within twenty-four hours from and after the taking of such action. States that not later than ninety days after the receipt of the report of the President the Congress by the enactment with such period of a bill or resolution appropriate to the purpose, shall either approve, ratify, confirm, and authorize the continuation of the action taken by the President and reported to the Congress, or shall disapprove and require the discontinuance of the same.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Includes as creditable service for purposes of civil service retirement those periods of imprisonment and missing in action status of members of the Armed Forces and of civilian employees where engaged in actions against hostile foreign forces. (Adds 5 U.S.C. 8332 (l))
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Expands the authority of the Veterans' Administration to make direct loans to veterans for housing where private capital is unavailable at the statutory interest rate. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1811)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides for the construction of a Veterans' Administration hospital of one thousand beds in the county of Queens, New York State. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides that a veteran's hypertension developing a 10 percent or more degree of disability within two years after separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service-connected for purposes of disability compensation. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 312(6))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the widow, children, and parents of deceased veterans who were rated 100 percent disabled by reason of service-connected disabilities for twenty or more years. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 410(a))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Permits periods of less than six months spent on active duty for training to be counted as active duty for purpose of entitlement to educational benefits for veterans who served in the Reserves or National Guard of any State after August 4, 1964. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1661(a)(2))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis developing a 10 percent or more degree of disability within seven years after a veteran's separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service-connected. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 312 (4))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Increases the period of presumption of service connection for cases of multiple sclerosis from seven to ten years after a veteran's separation from the Armed Forces. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 312 (a) (4))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Extends wartime benefits to veterans who served in the Armed Forces between February 1, 1955, and August 5, 1964. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 101(29))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
National Cemeteries Act - Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to plan and maintain a system of national cemeteries, and to establish a program of existing cemeteries and creation of additional cemeteries. Provides that each grave in each national cemetery shall be marked with a small headstone bearing the name of the person buried in such grave. Specifies the persons to be buried in national cemeteries, including: (1) any veteran who served on active duty (other than for training) and whose last such service terminated honorably; (2) any member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces, and any member of the Army National Guard, whose death occurs under honorable conditions while he is on active duty, authorized inactive duty training, or in a hospital at the expense of the United States. (3) any member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps of the Army, Navy, or Air Force whose death occurs under honorable conditions while he is attending an authorized training camp or undergoing hospital treatment at the expense of the United States; (4) any citizen of the United States who served in the Armed Forces of any U.S. ally in a war in which the United States was engaged and whose last service terminated honorably; and (5) the wife, husband, surviving spouse, minor child, and unmarried adult child of any of the persons listed in paragraphs (1) through (4). States that no person who on the date of his death was a member of a Communist-elected organization shall be buried in any national cemetery. Provides that the Administrator shall set aside, when applicable, suitable plots in national cemeteries to honor the memory of members of the Armed Forces missing in action. Authorizes the Administrator to furnish, when requested, appropriate Government headstones or markers for the graves of: (1) soliders of the Union and Confederate Armies of the Civil War; (2) members of the Armed Forces dying in the service and veterans whose last service terminated honorably; (3) persons buried in cemeteries and national cemeteries; and (4) persons specified in provisions (2) and (3) in the above section on eligibility. Requires superintendents of national cemeteries to be selected from among trustworthy veterans with a service- connected disability. Authorizes the Administrator to acquire additional lands as needed and to convey approach roads to national cemeteries to State and local authorities. Prescribes a fine of between $25 and $100, or imprisonment of between 15 and 60 days, for defacing a national cemetery, and authorizes the superintendent to arrest a person engaged in committing such act. Authorizes to the Administrator to send annual recommendations to Congress with respect to the memorials to be erected, and the remains of deceased members of the Armed Forces to be entombed in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Transfers jurisdiction and responsibility for any cemetery under the jurisdiction of the Secretaries of the Interior and the Army to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 218, 951-58)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Includes the Nicaraguan campaign (between August 27, 1926, and January 2, 1933) as a period of war for all purposes of veterans' service and benefits. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 101, 521, 541-42, 612)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides that a psychosis developing a 10 percent degree of disability or more within two years after separation from active service during a period of war shall be presumed to be service connected. (Amends 38 USC 312)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides that veterans with disabilities rated 10 through 100 percent shall receive additional compensation for dependents in specified amounts. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 315)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides a three-year presumptive period of service connection of malignant tumors of cancer which develops within three years from the date of a veteran's separation from active service. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 312 (6))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Enables permanently and totally disabled veterans with a service-connected disability of 10 percent or more, to receive concurrent payments of service-connected disability compensation and a non-service-connected pension. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 3104(d))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Increases the maximum annual income limitation governing payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the parent of a deceased veteran to $5,000, if the parent is an unremarried widow with a child. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4l5 (b) (1))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides that the retired pay of any member or former member of the Armed Forces who was on active duty or in an active status on or before May 31, 1958, shall be computed at current active duty pay rates and increased to reflect later changes in applicable pay rates.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Increase the statutory rates for anatomical loss or loss of use for veterans from $47 per month to $80 per month. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314 (k))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Makes disabled veterans of World War I eligible for the automobile assistance allowance provided for veterans of World War II and the Korean conflict. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1901 (a))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Disregards specified amounts received as an annunity, under the Railroad Retirements Act of 1937, for purposes of determining a veteran's annual income and pension eligibility. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 503 (b))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Increases payments in specified amounts to veterans under non-service-connected disability pension plans. Increases pension payments to widows of veterans who at the time of death were receiving compensation or retirement pay for a service-connected disability. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 521(b),(c); 541(b),(c))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to reimburse employers of veteran trainees for unusual costs incurred in providing on-job training for such veterans. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1504 (c))
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides that a single break in the continuity of a veteran's total disability rating, for a period of less than one year, followed by restoration to the same or higher disability rating, shall not be considered as disrupting the running of the twenty-year period, for purposes of disability compensation. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 110)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides that veterans who were prisoners of war for more than 6 months during World War II or the Korean War shall be deemed to have a service-connected disability of 50 percent for purposes of entitlement to veterans' disability compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides that the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate shall take such steps as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of Senate Resolution 24, 93d Congress, agreed to January 23, 1973, relating to the payment of expenses with respect to the attendance at the funeral of former President Lyndon B. Johnson. Provides that necessary expenses in carrying out such resolution shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides for cost-of-living increases for veterans' compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation and pension payments equal to the rise in the consumer price index when the Administrator of Veteran's Affairs determines that the Consumer Price Index has increased by 3 percent or more.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides that when a veteran is supplied with drugs from the Veteran's Administration, the Administrator shall permit such veteran to determine whether: (1) such drugs or medicines shall be supplied directly by the Administrator, (2) such veteran shall be reimbursed for such drugs or medicines which he obtains from a source approved by the Administrator, or (3) a source approved by the Administrator shall be reimbursed for supplying such drugs or medicines to such veterans, or such veteran will be supplied with such drugs or medicines by another method approved by the Administrator. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 620A)
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Entitles a veteran to monthly compensation of $616 if the veteran, as the result of service- connected disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands, or both feet, or of one hand and one foot, or is blind in both eyes, with 5/200 visual acuity or less, or is receiving regularly scheduled hemodialysis, or is permanently bedridden or so helpless as to be in need of regular aid and attendance. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 314)
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides that any veteran of the United States Armed Forces who has been held as a prisoner of war, or was detained by an enemy agent of the United States, shall be deemed to have suffered a permanent disability and entitled to a disability rating of not less than 10 percent following such service. (Adds 38U.S.C. 363).
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides that when a member of the uniformed services dies while he is on active duty for a period of more than thirty days, his dependents who are receiving benefits for a moderate or severe mental handicap or a serious physical handicap shall continue to be eligible for such benefits until they pass their twenty-first birthday. (Amends 10 USC 1079(g))