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Bill· HRH.R. 1876 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend eligibility for automobile adaptive equipment to certain additional veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide automobile adaptive equipment to any veteran receiving compensation for ankylosis of one or both knees, or one or both hips, which resulted from any injury incurred or disease contracted in or aggravated by active military, naval, or air service during World War II or thereafter.

Bill· HRH.R. 1886 (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. Applies these amendments to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 415(g), adds 38 U.S.C. 503(d))

Bill· HRH.R. 1895 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that certain veterans who were prisoners of war shall be deemed to have a service-connected disability of 50 percent; to deem certain prisoners of war to be permanently and totally disabled for the purposes of receiving wartime disability compensation; to provide hospital care and medical treatment for certain nonservice-connected disabilities of former prisoners of war; to provide a ten year presumptive period of service connection for chronic diseases of certain prisoners of war.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Provides that any veteran who, while on active duty, was held as a prisoner of war for not less than six months shall be deemed to have a service-connected disability of 50 percent rated as permanent for purposes of entitlement to wartime disability compensation and other veterans' benefits. Provides for a ten-year presumptive period of service connection for chronic diseases of such veterans.

Bill· HRH.R. 1872 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 315 of title 38, United States Code, to provide an additional compensation benefit to a veteran rated not less than 50 percent disabled on account of a child requiring regular aid and attendance.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Provides to a veteran rated not less than 50 percent disabled an additional compensation benefit paid by the Veterans' Administration on account of a child requiring regular aid and attendance.

Bill· HRH.R. 1891 (95th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 35 of title 38 of the United States Code in order to provide educational benefits, on a prorated basis, to children of veterans having permanent service service-connected disabilities rated at not less than 50 percent but less than total.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Provides educational benefits, on a prorated basis, to children of veterans having permanent service-connected disabilities rated at not less than 50 percent but less than total.

Bill· HRH.R. 1868 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the 20-year protection to ratings for children permanently incapable of self-support.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Extends indefinitely, barring a showing of fraud, the ratings for children permanently incapable of self-support, for compensation or pension purposes under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration, if such ratings have been continuously in force for 20 years or more.

Bill· HRH.R. 1874 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 362 of title 38, United States Code, to extend the annual clothing allowance to veterans with service-connected blindness and those who are required to wear hearing aids as a result of service-connected disability.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Extends the annual clothing allowance provided by the Veterans Administration to veterans with service-connected blindness and those who are required to wear hearing aids as a result of service-connected disability.

Bill· HRH.R. 1864 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide an automobile assistance allowance and to provide automotive adaptive equipment to certain veterans not now qualifying for such benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Includes among those disabled veterans eligible for assistance for automobiles and automobile adaptive equipment: (1) veterans of World War I; and (2) any other veteran who is not eligible but who has a service-connected disability which constitutes a permanent loss or impairment of the use of an anatomical part which is rated at not less than 30 percent and which impairs his ability to operate an automobile or other conveyance.

Law· HRH.R. 1862 (95th)open

Veterans Disability Compensation and Survivor Benefits Act of 1977

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Veterans Disability Compensation and Survivor Benefits Act - Title I: Veterans Disability Compensation - Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Title II: Survivors Dependency and Indemnity Compensation - Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of disabled veterans. Title III: Effective Date - Declares that the provisions of this shall become effective on October 1, 1977.

Bill· HRH.R. 1870 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to assist veterans with a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss or loss of use of one upper and one lower extremity to acquire specially adapted housing.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Authorizes the Administrator of Veteran's Affairs to assist veterans with a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss or loss of use of one upper and one lower extremity in acquiring specially adapted housing.

Bill· HRH.R. 1866 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 360 of title 38, United States Code, to provide increased awards of service-connected compensation to certain veterans who have suffered the loss or loss of use of paired extremities.

United States · United States Congress · 13 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 as a result of a service-connected disability, and has suffered the loss or loss of use of the other limb such as to cause total disability, as a result of a non-service-connected disability not the result of his own willful misconduct.

Bill· HRH.R. 1875 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 312 of title 38, United States Code, by providing that malignant tumors (cancer) which develop within five years from the date of separation from wartime service shall be presumed to have been incurred in, or aggravated by, such service.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Provides, for purposes of qualifying veterans for wartime disability compensation, a five-year presumptive period of service connection for malignant tumors (cancer) which develop within five years from the date of separation from wartime active service.

Bill· HRH.R. 1871 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 312 of title 38, United States Code, by providing a 2-year presumptive period of service connection for the psychoses which develop within 2 years from the date of separation from active service.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Provides, for purposes of qualifying veterans for wartime disability compensation, a two-year presumptive period of service connection for psychoses which develop within two years from the date of separation from active service.

Bill· HRH.R. 1863 (95th)referred

Veterans and Survivors Pension Adjustment Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Veterans and Survives Pension Adjustment Act - Title I: Veterans' and Survivors' Pensions - Increases the rates of pensions with a non-service connected disability for war veterans, their surviving spouses and children, and increases the annual income limitations governing payment of such pensions. Title II: Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Parents - Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the parents of veterans who died in active military service. Title III: Miscellaneous and Effective Date Provisions - Increases the monthly rate of death compensation payable to a widow or dependent parent if the payee is a patient in a nursing home or helpless or blind. States that the effective date of this Act shall be January 1, 1978.

Bill· HRH.R. 1836 (95th)referred

Uniformed Services Retired and Retainer Pay Equalization Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Uniformed Services Retired and Retainer Pay Equalization Act - Authorizes the recomputation of the retired or retainer pay for members and former members of the uniformed services if such pay was computed under the rates of basic pay in effect after September 30, 1949, and before January 1, 1971. Stipulates that such recomputation shall be based on the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1974. Sets forth the age at which such individuals become entitled to the recomputed pay. Increases the basic pay for specified officers.

Bill· HRH.R. 1808 (95th)referred

World War I Pension Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, or to the surviving spouse of each such veteran, or when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.

Bill· HRH.R. 1814 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from taxation the pay received by members of the National Guard or of Reserve components of the Armed Forces to the extent that such pay does not exceed $5,000.

United States · United States Congress · 13 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.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 136 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to restore the Congressional Medal of Honor to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker.

United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1977

Directs the President of the United States to issue a citation restoring to Doctor Mary Edwards Walker the Congressional Medal of Honor which was awarded to her in 1865 and revoked in 1917. Expresses the sense of Congress that the citation be displayed at the Richardson-Bates House, Oswego, New York, with the Medal of Honor presented to Doctor Walker in 1865.

Bill· HRH.R. 1755 (95th)referred

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

United States · United States Congress · 12 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.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 57 (95th)referred

Concurrent resolution endorsing the publicly declared Vietnam-era reconciliation program of the President-elect and urging the President-elect to extend that program to include all Vietnam-era selective service offenders and all Vietnam-era veterans who received less than honorable discharges or who deserted or were absent without leave during such era.

United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1977

Expresses the endorsement of Congress for the President-elect's pardon program for persons who, during the Vietnam era, failed to report for induction into, or refused induction into, the armed forces and have not been prosecuted for such violation. Requests the President-elect to extend his reconciliation program by: (1) granting amnesty to all persons convicted under the Military Selective Service Act of offenses committed during the Vietnam era; (2) upgrading all the general and undesirable discharges issued to those who served during that era to honorable discharges; (3) reviewing on a case-by-case basis each bad conduct and dishonorable discharge issued during that period; and (4) granting amnesty to all those who were convicted or charged with desertion and to those convicted of absence without leave.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 4 (95th)referred

A concurrent resolution regarding amnesty.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Endorses the President-elect's program of pardoning Vietnam-era draft resisters who have not been prosecuted under the Military Selective Service Act. Requests the President-elect to extend the program to grant amnesty to all Vietnam-era resisters convicted under such Act, and to each member and former member of the Armed Forces who during the Vietnam era deserted, whether or not he or she was tried and convicted by a court-martial, or was convicted by a court-martial for being absent without leave. Urges the President-elect to upgrade to honorable discharges all general and undesirable discharges issued to former members of the Armed Forces who served during the Vietnam era, and to review on a case-by-case basis every bad conduct and dishonorable discharge to determine whether such discharge should be upgraded.

Bill· HRH.R. 1617 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to provide mortgage protection life insurance to certain veterans unable to acquire commercial life insurance because of service-connected disabilities.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to purchase from one or more life insurance companies a policy or policies of mortgage protection life insurance on a group basis for veterans (other than permanently and totally disabled veterans), who are unable to obtain commercial life insurance because of a service-connected disability. Sets forth the maximum amount of insurance under a policy provided under this Act at no more than $30,000. Authorizes the Administrator to deduct insurance premiums from any compensation or other cash benefits payable to veterans by the Veterans' Administration, and to pay such premiums to the insurers. Provides that the United States shall bear all costs of the insurance provided under this Act, except the amount of premium rates. States that any amount of insurance in force under this Act on the date of death of an insured veteran shall be paid only to the holder of the mortgage loan on the veteran's home as a credit toward loan indebtedness. Requires each policy purchased under this Act to provide for the following: (1) reinsurance with other insurers which meet the Administrator's criteria; (2) that the Administrator may discontinue a whole policy, or exclude from issuance to each insured veteran of a certificate setting forth the benefits to which he is entitled; (3) any other provisions necessary to carry out this Act; and (4) an annual accounting to the Administrator of the amount of premiums paid, the total of all mortality and other claim charges incurred, and the amount of the insurer's expenses and risk charges. States that insurance under this Act shall terminate upon whichever first occurs: (1) satisfaction of the veteran's indebtedness under the loan upon which the insurance is based; (2) the veteran's 70th birthday; (3) termination of the veteran's ownership of the property securing the loan; (4) discontinuance of payment of premiums by the veteran; or (5) discontinuance of the entire contract or agreement.

Bill· HRH.R. 1632 (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 · 11 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· HRH.R. 1623 (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 · 11 January 1977

Makes it unlawful for any individual or entity to enroll, or solicit to enroll, any member of the armed forces or National Guard, in any labor organization where the function of such organization is related to membership in the armed forces. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 975)

Bill· HRH.R. 1618 (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 · 11 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. Applies these amendments to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 415(g), adds 38 U.S.C. 503(d))

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 55 (95th)referred

Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress in favor of eliminating the reduction in veterans' pensions which results when cost-of-living increases in social security or railroad retirement benefits occur.

United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977

Declares it to be the sense of Congress that the Veterans' Affairs Committees of the House and the Senate consider and report without delay legislation eliminating the possibility of any reduction in veterans' pensions on account of increases in social security or railroad retirement benefits.

Bill· SS. 129 (95th)referred

A bill to restore the wartime recognition of certain Filipino veterans of World War II and to entitle them to those benefits, rights, and privileges which result from such recognition.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Restores to their status as bona fide recognized veterans of World War II those Filipino veterans who served in either the Army of the United States in the Philippines (Commonwealth Army) or in the United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE), but whose wartime records were subsequently nullified by the removal of their names from the official records of the United States Army after the war.

Bill· SS. 119 (95th)referred

A bill to incorporate the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Grants a Federal charter to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Declares that the purposes of such corporation are to encourage the study of events relating to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and to shield from neglect the graves of those who served there during the attack.

Bill· SS. 100 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 1003 of title 38, United States Code, relating to memorial areas and appropriate memorials to honor the memory of certain deceased members of the Armed Forces whose remains were buried at sea, have not been identified, or were nonrecoverable.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to set aside, when available, suitable areas in national cemeteries to honor the memory of members of the Armed Forces whose remains have been donated for use in medical research or training.

Bill· SS. 84 (95th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 31 of title 10, United States Code, to prohibit the requirement for furnishing certain information as a condition to enlisting in the armed forces.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Stipulates that no individual, as a condition for enlisting in the armed forces, shall be required to furnish any information relating to an offense for which such individual was arrested, charged, or convicted if such charge has been dismissed or the record of such arrest, charge or conviction has been sealed or expunged. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 502)

Bill· SS. 13 (95th)referred

A bill to amend chapter 13 of title 38, United States Code, to make eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation widows of veterans who die of non-service-connected causes but who were at the time of death totally disabled as the result of one or more service-connected disabilities.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Extends eligibility for dependency and indemnity compensation to widows of veterans who die of non-service-connected causes but who were at the time of death totally disabled as the result of one or more service-connected disabilities. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 410,411)

Bill· SS. 27 (95th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may furnish outpatient dental services and treatment for a non-service-connected disability to any war veteran who has a service-connected disability of 80 percent or more.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Extends outpatient dental services and treatment for a non-service-connected disability to any war veteran who has a service-connected disability of 80 percent or more. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 612 (b))

Bill· SS. 24 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize the widows of certain former members of the Armed Forces of the United States to use the services and facilities of post exchanges and commissaries.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Entitles the surviving spouse of a former member of the armed forces, whose spouse's death was service-connected or whose spouse was totally disabled at the time of death as a result of a service-connected disability, to use the services and facilities of post exchanges and commissary stores operated under the jurisdiction of any military department. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1041)

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 3 (95th)referred

A concurrent resolution to urge the establishment of a Presidential task force on MIAs and POWs.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Declares the sense of Congress that, simultaneously with the issuance of a general amnesty or pardon for United States draft evaders of the Vietnam era, a Presidential Task Force on Missing in Action and Prisoners of War should be established to propose courses of action to achieve the fullest possible accounting for all Americans listed as missing in Southeast Asia, including the return of remains, and to make recommendations concerning Federal policies relating to prisoners of war and missing in action.

Bill· HRH.R. 1601 (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 · 10 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 surviving spouses of such veterans.

Bill· HRH.R. 1565 (95th)referred

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

United States · United States Congress · 10 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.

Bill· HRH.R. 1592 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from taxation the pay received by members of the National Guard or of Reserve components of the Armed Forces to the extent that such pay does not exceed $5,000.

United States · United States Congress · 10 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.

Bill· HRH.R. 1599 (95th)referred

A bill to provide that veterans be provided employment opportunities after discharge at certain minimum salary rates.

United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977

Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to take action (including the making of monetary grants) to insure employment in a Federal, State, local, or private nonprofit agency or institution to veterans with other than dishonorable discharges, who do not avail themselves of veterans' educational benefits, during the 24 month period following their discharge. Establishes a formula for determining the salary rates of positions in which such veterans can be employed.

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