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101 records in 1977
United States · United States Congress · 11 November 1977
Increases the limitation on the aggregate of direct housing loans to any veteran by the Veterans' Administration from $33,000 to $48,000.
United States · United States Congress · 11 November 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide for automatic annual cost-of-living increases in benefits payable to individuals under title 38, United States Code, or the Veterans' Pension Act of 1959.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1977
Prohibits denial of employment (except by an employer with no more than ten employees) to any person because of any obligation as a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Forbids the Secretaries of the Army, Air Force, and Navy from prohibiting the assignment of any female personnel to any duty for which such a member has volunteered and is otherwise qualified.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay $150.00 per month to certain former members of the United States Army, or a specified percentage of such sum to surviving unremarried widows of such members, who participated in the dengue fever experiments in the Philippine Islands.
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 November 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 November 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 November 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 November 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 November 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 November 1977
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
Increases the minimum grade held by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau from major general to lieutenant general.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
Increases the period of veterans' education assistance from 45 to 54 months, and eliminates the delimiting period. Grants eligibility for such assistance to any veteran of World War II, the Korean conflict, or the Vietnam era whose previous entitlement terminated without such veteran's availing himself of all the assistance to which he was entitled.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of any veteran who was rated totally and permanently service-connected disabled for at least ten years, as though the cause of death were service-connected.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, to the surviving spouse (who meets specified requirements), or, when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children (who meet specified requirements).
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
Repeals the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to establish an office in Europe, and permits him to pay specified travel, subsistence, and sale and purchase of residence expenses of employees of the Veterans' Administration serving at its offices in the Republic of the Philippines.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, l978 to repeal the provision of such Act which prohibits the payment of lodging expenses for individuals away from their post of duty on official business when adequate government quarters are available but are not occupied by such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in regard to the eligibility for educational benefits of a veteran or other person enrolled in a farm cooperative program, to prescribe for the agricultural employment requirement standards of relevance to the courses taken which allow such veteran or person to work: (1) in establishments engaged in the processing, distribution, or sale of agricultural products; (2) less than full-time; and (3) regardless of whether such employment is expected to be the principal source of income of the veteran or person so employed.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to not consider specified housing benefits available to veterans in determining eligibility of veterans for housing financing from sources other than the Farmers Home Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
Defense Economic Adjustment Act - States the purpose of this Act to be to provide advance planning for effective conversion of defense-related industries to productive civilian activity and to provide economic adjustment assistance to affected communities, industries, and workers which may be substantially and seriously affected by reductions in defense expenditures. Title I: Defense Economic Adjustment Council - Establishes a Defense Economic Adjustment Council in the Executive Office of the President, membership to include Cabinet officers, representatives of business-management community, and representatives of labor union organizations. Defines the duties of the Council, including: (1) encouraging preparation of plans for civilian-oriented public projects; (2) supervising the establishment of a Job Information Bank in the Department of Labor to coordinate State, local and Federal employment services; (3) preparing lists of organizations and consultants engaged in civilian-oriented activity for use by local conversion committees; and (4) preparing and distributing a Conversion Guidelines Handbook. Title II: Alternative Use Committees - Establishes local Alternative Use Committees to undertake economic conversion planning and preparation in the event of reductions in defense spending resulting in substantial and serious unemployment. Provides a fund for performing these duties to be derived from the military contract or base operating costs. Title III: Economic Adjustment Fund - Provides for establishment in the Treasury of a Workers Economic Adjustment Reserve Trust Fund. Requires defense contractors to pay to the Fund an amount equal to one and a quarter percent per year of their gross revenue. Title IV: Economic Adjustment Assistance for Workers - Requires that all displacements in defense related facilities affecting more than five percent of the workers be reported to the State employment office or agency acting as Agent for administration of employees' benefits programs. Provides eligible workers with two year entitlement to the following applicable benefits: (1) compensation on a weekly basis to maintain an income equal to 90 percent of the first $20,000 per year and 50 percent of the next $5,000 in excess of $20,000; (2) vested pension credit; (3) maintenance of hospital, surgical, medical, disability, and life insurance coverage; (4) retraining for civilian work; and (5) necessary relocation expenses. Requires all managerial and technical employees who have spent more than 50 percent of the ten years preceding implementation of the plan to participate in a professional retraining program in order to be eligible for benefits. Authorizes the Council to reimburse a State or administering agency (acting as agent of the Council) for all benefits paid. Title V: Use of Certain Research Funds - Amends the Defense Authorization Act of 1970 to expand kinds of independent research and development which can be funded in a defense contract to include projects which the Council believes have a potential relationship to an urgent national requirement in a designated non-defense sector. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes the appropriation of sums which may be necessary to carry out provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 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.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
Requires, upon application by the insured, waiver of the payment of premiums for National Service Life Insurance during any time after which the insured has attained the age of 70 and has paid premiums on the insurance for not less than 25 years.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
Authorizes a two year extension of the delimiting period for any eligible veteran receiving or entitled to receive educational benefits from the Veterans' Administration for a continuation of the last program of education such veteran commenced but did not complete before the expiration of the normal ten-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, l978 to repeal the provision of such Act which prohibits the payment of lodging expenses for individuals away from their post of duty on official business when adequate government quarters are available but are not occupied by such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
Requires, upon application by the insured, waiver of the payment of premiums for National Service Life Insurance during any time after which the insured has attained the age of 70 and has paid premiums on the insurance for not less than 25 years.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
Defense Dependents' Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a program of free public education through secondary school for dependents of military and civilian personnel overseas and on certain military bases. Transfers certain authority of the Commissioner of Education regarding schools on domestic military installation to the Secretary of Defense. Establishes within the Department of Defense: (1) the Office of Dependents' Education; and (2) an Advisory Council on Dependents' Education. Stipulates that such overseas schools shall be eligible for assistance under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1977
Eliminates the requirement that students in Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps units be citizens of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1977
Prohibits disclosure of information identifying or tending to identify a person as a present or former participant in United States foreign intelligence operations if (1) the information has been designated by statute or Executive Order as requiring some degree of protection or (2) the person disclosing the information knows or has reason to believe that such disclosure may prejudice the safety or well-being of the person identified.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1977
Forbids the Secretaries of the Army, Air Force, and Navy from prohibiting the assignment of any female personnel to any duty for which such a member has volunteered and is otherwise qualified.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1977
Requires the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned, prior to closing or realigning a military base, to inform the local government officials in any area which would be affected by such action that such an installation is a candidate for closure or realignment. Lengthens the period after notification to Congress of such proposed action that such a closure or realignment may occur.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1977
Establishes a Court of Veterans' Appeals, appointed by the President, with exclusive jurisdiction to review by appeal all questions involved in decisions of the Board of Veterans' Appeals.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1977
Establishes a loan program to provide educational assistance to Vietnam-era veterans and their eligible dependents who either did not commence or were unable to complete a program of education before the expiration of the delimiting period.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1977
Defense Economic Adjustment and Recovery Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a program to make grants to units of local government whose economy is adversely affected by the closure or major realignment of a military base. Stipulates that such program shall be made through existing Federal programs. Requires that applications for such a grant shall include a comprehensive local economic recovery plan describing the plans of the local community to recover from the economic impact of such closure or realignment. Stipulates that the amount of funds available under this Act shall be equal to ten percent of the total projected savings to be realized by the Department of Defense in the first ten years following the closure or realignment of such a military base. Requires units of local government receiving financial assistance under this Act to submit a report to the Secretary concerning the local community's progress toward economic recovery. Authorizes appropriations in such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, to the surviving spouse (who meets specified requirements), or, when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children (who meet specified requirements).
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1977
Makes eligible for veterans' educational assistance any person who served before January 1, 1977, as a cadet or midshipman at one of the service academies, and as a result of such service served on active duty for more than 180 days, any part of which commenced within 12 months after January 1, 1977, and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1977
Increases from $528 to $560 the amount of additional wartime disability compensation payable to a veteran in need of regular aid and attendance. Requires the payment of an additional monthly allowance of $860 to any such veteran in need of constant aid and attendance because of severe helplessness.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1977
Establishes eligibility for educational assistance for children of a veteran with a service-connected permanent disability rated 80 percent or more. Makes the parent or guardian of such children eligible for a special restorative training allowance. Requires any veteran or institution seeking approval for a sales management course to show that at least one-half of the persons who enrolled in it successfully completed their programs of instruction. Requires each State approving agency to notify the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs of any educational institution which has been cited for, terminated because of, or is under investigation for illegal or improper practices, or for unsatisfactory performance or academic standards. Requires approval of correspondence-residence training programs by appropriate nationally recognized accrediting agencies. Provides for readjustment professional educational and vocational counseling.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 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.
Germany · German Bundestag · 21 October 1977
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1977
Removes the present restrictions which prohibit enlisted members of the armed forces on active duty from engaging in a civilian pursuit or business or prohibit members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine bands from receiving remuneration for furnishing music outside of a military base where such activities are in competition with local civilians.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish counseling (including a general mental and psychological assessment in connection therewith) to any veteran with emotional or psychological problems related to the adjustment of such veteran from military to civilian life.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1977
Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act Amendments - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to direct the President to appoint an interagency committee to determine which materials are to be acquired under such Act and what classification each such material shall be assigned. Stipulates that there are three such classifications as follows; (1) Class A materials are those essential and necessary materials not produced or produced in limited quantities in the United States which are obtained primarily from foreign sources; (2) Class B materials are those essential and necessary materials produced in the United States but which are not available in sufficient quantities and are obtained to a substantial extent from foreign sources; and (3) Class C are those essential and necessary materials which are produced in substantial quantities in the United States and are obtained to a lesser extent from foreign sources. Stipulates that the stockpile objectives for Class A materials shall be equal to three years domestic net imports; for Class B materials two years' domestic net imports; and for Class C materials one years' net imports of such material. Requires that such objectives be reviewed every four years by the interagency council. Stipulates that a revised objective for such material shall be made only if the average annual quantity of imports of such material during the previous five years increased or decreased by more than ten percent. Directs the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to direct the Administrator of General Services to establish a barter program for the acquisition of strategic and critical materials. Stipulates that no funds may be appropriated or obligated for the procurement of materials under such Act unless funds have been specifically authorized for such purpose. Establishes within the Treasury a Strategic and Critical Materials Procurement Fund. Stipulates that all moneys received on account of sales of materials under such Act shall be covered into the fund. Sets forth the uses for which funds may be expended. Directs the Administrator of General Services to submit an annual report to the Congress regarding such fund.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1977
Grants a Federal charter to the American Ex-Prisoners of War, Incorporated. Stipulates that the purposes of such organization are to assist the widows and orphans of deceased ex-prisoners of war and to assist ex-prisoners of war who have been injured or handicapped as a result of their service.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 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 · 17 October 1977
Extends the delimiting period for an eligible veteran prevented from initiating or completing a chosen program of education within the normal ten-year period because of a physical or mental disability. Requires any veteran or institution seeking approval for a sales or sales management course to show that at least one-half of the persons who enrolled in it successfully completed their programs of instruction. Requires each State approving agency to notify the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs of any educational institution which has been cited for, terminated because of, or is under investigation for illegal or improper practices, or for unsatisfactory performance or academic standards. Requires approval of correspondence-residence training programs by appropriate nationally recognized accrediting agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1977
Establishes a Court of Veterans' Appeals, appointed by the President, with exclusive jurisdiction to review by appeal all questions involved in decisions of the Board of Veterans' Appeals.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1977
Declares it the sense of the Congress that no Federal agency should consider the value of military exchange and commissary privileges in determining the entitlement of any retired or former member of the armed forces to any other Federal benefits or the amount of such benefits.
Germany · German Bundestag · 14 October 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 14 October 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 14 October 1977