Defence

World War II Veterans' Bonus Act

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977

World War II Veterans' Bonus Act - Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make to each qualified World War II veteran who applies within three years following enactment of this Act a lump-sum payment which shall be the lesser of (1) $500 or (2) the product of (A) the number of days of active duty performed by such veterans during World War II and (B) $5. Entitles the survivor of a qualified veteran to receive such payment in the event that such veteran dies before receiving it.

A bill to amend section 1448 of title 10, United States Code, to provide survivor benefits in case of death of certain members or former members of the Armed Forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-Regular service.

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977

Grants survivor benefits to dependents of present or former members of the armed forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-regular service. Stipulates that such amount be 55 percent of the retired pay to which such member would have been entitled. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1448(e))

A bill to provide for the establishment of Veterans' Administration outpatient clinic in Broward County, Fla.

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977

Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide an outpatient dispensary facility in Broward County, Florida, for veterans entitled to medical services.

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code relating to the recognition of representatives of the Polish Legion of American Veterans as claims agents for claims arising under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1977

Provides that representatives of the Polish Legion of American Veterans are recognized as claims agents for claims arising under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.

World War I Pension Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 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).

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of supplemental tuition allowances to certain veterans pursuing educational programs for purposes of offsetting the differences in State educational costs.

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1977

Provides for payment of a supplemental tuition allowance to each qualified veteran upon application to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Limits such allowance to no more than $900 with the first $400 of the tuition cost being paid by the veteran, and the Administrator paying 75 percent of the next $1,200 for the school year.

A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit the assignment of international security assistance management teams, defense attaches, or other U.S. Armed Forces personnel to the Republic of South Africa.

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1977

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit the assignment of members of the United States Armed Forces to South Africa.

A bill to prohibit exports to the Republic of South Africa under the Arms Export Control Act of defense articles or services, to prohibit exports to the Republic of South Africa under the Export Administration Act of 1969 of items which might be used for military, law enforcement, or internal security purposes, and to prohibit exports to the Republic of South Africa under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 of nuclear materials, facilities, and technology.

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1977

Prohibits the sale or licensing for export to South Africa of defense articles or services under the Arms Export Control Act. Prohibits the exportation to South Africa of articles controlled under the Export Administration Act of 1969 if such articles could be used for military, law enforcement, or internal security purposes. Prohibits the issuing of licenses for export to or distribution within South Africa of any source material, special nuclear material, by-product material, production facility, utilization facility, or restricted data, under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide for the payment of supplemental tuition allowances for certain veterans pursuing educational programs.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1977

Provides for payment of a supplemental tuition allowance to each qualified veteran upon application to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Limits such allowance to no more than $800, the first $400 of the tuition cost being paid by the veteran, the Administrator paying 80 percent of the next $1,000 for the school year. Requires assurances from the educational institution that the tuition charged the veteran is equivalent to that charged nonveteran students and that all fees are included in an itemization presented to the Administrator.

Veterans Health Care Amendments Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1977

Veterans Health Care Amendments Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish initial readjustment professional counseling (including a general mental and psychological assessment) for any veteran with readjustment problems who requests such aid within four years after his discharge or release from service, or within two years after enactment of this Act, whichever is later. Requires further mental health services on an outpatient basis if a physician employed by the Veterans' Administration determines on the basis of initial counseling that such services are necessary for the veteran's successful readjustment. Directs the Chief Medical Director to provide for the training of professional, paraprofessional, and lay personnel necessary to carry out such programs. Directs the Administrator to ensure that all potentially eligible veterans are advised of such potential eligibility. Authorizes the Administrator to provide a preventive health care program to ensure the best possible health care for veterans with service-connected disabilities. Directs the Administrator to provide for a health maintenance pilot program to demonstrate the medical advantages and cost-effectiveness of furnishing comprehensive preventive health care services to veterans with varied types and degrees of service-connected disabilities. Requires a comprehensive annual report to Congress on such programs. Requires the Administrator to carry out programs providing inpatient and outpatient treatment and rehabilitation services on a nationwide basis to eligible veterans suffering from alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities. Directs the Administrator to assist the Secretary of Labor in providing veterans receiving such treatment with appropriate job and training opportunities. Requires the Administrator, when an applicant for such treatment has received a less than honorable discharge from the armed services, to advise such applicant of his right to apply for review and correction of such discharge. Requires the provision of such services to eligible veterans who are charged with or convicted of any criminal offense and who are not confined and not required to participate in such a treatment program; and permits provision of such services, under specified conditions, to eligible veterans similarly charged or convicted, if a court does require participation in such a program. Allows a member of the active armed services with alcohol or drug problems to transfer to any Veterans' Administration facility for treatment within the last 30 days of such member's tour of duty. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and the Administrator to coordinate the Professional Standards Review program carried out under part B of title XI (General Provision) of the Social Security Act and the comparable programs carried out by the Department of Medicine and Surgery to assess the quality of patient care in Veterans' Administration health care facilities. Requires the Chief Medical Director, through the Administrator, to report to Congress on the effectiveness of such coordination. Requires the Chief Medical Director to report to Congress, not later than three months after the end of each fiscal year, on all activities in which he or a designee, as a representative of the Veterans' Administration, has participated in an advisory or coordinating capacity with respect to programs carried out by the executive branch.

A bill to amend chapter 67 of Title 10, United States Code, to grant eligibility for retired pay to certain reservists who did not perform active duty before August 16, 1945.

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 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.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that the recipient of a veterans' pension or dependency and indemnity compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of cost-of-living increases in social security benefits, railroad retirement annuities, or other retirement benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1977

Provides that the recipient of a veterans' pension or dependency and indemnity compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of cost-of-living increases in social security benefits, railroad retirement annuities, or other retirement benefits.

World War I Pension Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 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.

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code so as to protect and preserve determinations by the Veterans' Administration with regard to service connection and disability ratings.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1977

Reduces under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration: (1) from ten to five years the minimum period before January 1, 1962, the service connection for any disability or death must have been in force to preserve it from severance; and (2) from twenty to ten years the period during which a total disability or permanent total disability rating made for compensation, pension, or insurance purposes must be continuously in force to preserve it from reduction.

A bill to amend sections 1662 and 1663 of title 38, United States Code, in order to provide for a conditional extension of the delimiting period for receiving educational assistance in the case of certain Vietnam era veterans, and to improve counseling for certain veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1977

Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to extend for a maximum of two years the delimiting period for a Vietnam-era veteran whose enrollment in a program of education was previously terminated by reason of such delimiting period, and for whom an extension of such period is necessary for the completion of his or her program. Directs the Administrator to provide readjustment professional counseling to assist any veteran to select a suitable occupation or training objective, an educational institution, a program of education, and a reasonable employment objective.

A bill to amend title 10 of the United States Code to provide essential medical and dental care to members or former members of a uniformed service and their dependents where the member is entitled to retired or retainer pay or equivalent pay.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1977

Requires that, upon request, members or former members of the uniformed services or their dependents be given essential medical and dental care in any facility of the uniformed services. Allows such individuals to receive nonessential care subject to the availability of space and facilities and the capabilities of the medical and dental staff. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1074, 1076)

Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the value of military exchange and commissary privileges should not be considered by any Federal agency in determining the entitlement of any retired or former member of the Armed Forces to any other Federal benefit or in determining the amount of any other Federal benefit.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 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.

Standardisierung im Rüstungsbereich und Verzicht auf einige Beschaffungsvorhaben für die Bundeswehr wegen nicht ausreichender finanzieller Mittel (G-SIG: 00042564)

Germany · German Bundestag · 9 September 1977

Diebstahl und Verbleib von Waffen und Munition aus Beständen der Bundeswehr, insbesondere des Transportbataillons 861 Achern (G-SIG: 00042651)

Germany · German Bundestag · 9 September 1977

Manöverschäden in der Land- und Forstwirtschaft durch Truppenübungen von Bundeswehr und NATO; Veranstaltung der Herbstmanöver nach der Getreideernte (G-SIG: 00042650)

Germany · German Bundestag · 9 September 1977

World War I Pension Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 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).

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to extend to 45 days the period between semesters, terms, or quarters during which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may continue to pay educational assistance or subsistence allowances to eligible veterans and eligible persons if the educational institution is closed during such period for more than one full calendar month as part of an energy conservation program or as a result of a fuel curtailment.

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1977

Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to continue to pay educational assistance or subsistence allowances to eligible veterans and persons during periods between a semester, term, or quarter when the educational institution is closed for more than one full calendar month as part of an energy conservation program or as a result of a fuel curtailment, and the period between semesters, terms, or quarters does not exceed 45 days.

A bill to provide for the construction of a Veterans' Administration hospital in Broward County, Fla.

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1977

Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to construct a new 500-bed general medical, surgical, and psychiatric Veterans' Administration hospital in Broward County, Florida. Authorizes such appropriations as may be necessary.

A bill to amend section 1448 of title 10, United States Code, to provide survivor benefits in case of death of certain members or former members of the Armed Forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-Regular service.

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1977

Grants survivor benefits to dependents of present or former members of the armed forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-regular service. Stipulates that such amount be 55 percent of the retired pay to which such member would have been entitled. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1448(e))

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 · 7 September 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))

Finanzierung der Beschaffungsvorhaben für die Bundeswehr sowie Einführung einer kostensparenden Kooperation und Standardisierung im Rüstungsbereich (G-SIG: 00042479)

Germany · German Bundestag · 2 September 1977

Informatives Gewicht des Kommunistischen Bundes Westdeutschland in der Bundeswehr (G-SIG: 00042470)

Germany · German Bundestag · 2 September 1977

Veröffentlichung geheimzuhaltender Informationen über Beschaffungs- und Entwicklungsfragen in der Bundeswehr in der Zeitschrift "Wehrtechnik" (G-SIG: 00042534)

Germany · German Bundestag · 2 September 1977

Verteidigung der Menschenrechte und des Selbstbestimmungsrechts des deutschen Volkes gegenüber der UdSSR auf dem Belgrader KSZE-Folgetreffen (G-SIG: 00042326)

Germany · German Bundestag · 22 August 1977

Ablehnung der Errichtung von Ausbildungsplätzen in Werkstätten und Verwaltungsstellen der Bundeswehr (G-SIG: 00042378)

Germany · German Bundestag · 22 August 1977

Gewährung von Aufwandsentschädigung und Umsatzsteuerbefreiung für das in die USA entsandte Personal der Bundeswehr (G-SIG: 00042294)

Germany · German Bundestag · 17 August 1977

A bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Navy from requiring an employment contract in excess of one year for civilian employees at Adak Naval Station.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from requiring any individual who is to perform services as a civilian employee at the United States Naval Station, Adak, Alaska, to enter into an employment contract for a term of service in excess of one year.

A resolution relating to transitional accommodations in connection with abolition of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Establishes within the Senate the Office of Classified National Security Information having responsibility for safeguarding such restricted data and other classified information as any Senate committee may assign to it. Authorizes the Senate committees which receive certain information from the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy to utilize such Office. Authorizes the Office to perform the administrative functions necessary to (1) classify and declassify information relating to the national security considerations of nuclear technology; (2) provide facilities for Senate committee hearings involving restricted or classified information; and (3) establish a central repository in the Capitol for safeguarding such information. Requires the Office to furnish specified Senate committees with a listing of all records of the joint committee on Atomic Energy which are to be transferred to such committees. Sets forth a procedure for transferring certain staff members of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy to specified other Senate committees or to the Office upon the abolition of the Joint Committee.

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 · 5 August 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.

Veterans Education Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Veterans Education Reform Act -- Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to discontinue educational assistance to an eligible veteran or survivor or dependent of a veteran if the Administrator finds that the institution of higher learning concerned has failed to enforce its regularly prescribed standards and practices as approved by the appropriate State approving agency with respect to such veteran or person. Denies the Administrator any authority to prescribe educational standards or practices with respect to any institution of higher learning empowered to award a standard college degree. Requires the Administrator to provide individual educational and career counseling and other appropriate services to facilitate the education of any veteran or person whose educational assistance has been discontinued under this Act.

A bill to amend title 38 United States Code, to provide that a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces shall not be denied certain employment because of a membership in such Reserve component.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Prohibits denial of employment (except by an employer with no more than ten employees) of any person because of any obligation as a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces.

A bill to extend commissary and exchange privileges to World War I veterans.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Entitles World War I veterans to commissary and exchange privileges.

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to exempt from determinations with respect to annual income payments made to member employees of State soldier's homes.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Exempts from determinations of annual income, for veterans' pension purposes, payments to member employees made by State soldier's homes which are qualified to receive assistance from the Veterans' Administration.

Veterans Health Care Amendments Act

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Veterans Health Care Amendments Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish initial readjustment professional counseling (including a general mental and psychological assessment) for any veteran with readjustment problems who requests such aid within four years after his discharge or release from service, or within two years after enactment of this Act, whichever is later. Requires further mental health services on an outpatient basis if a physician employed by the Veterans' Administration determines on the basis of initial counseling that such services are necessary for the veteran's successful readjustment. Directs the Chief Medical Director to provide for the training of professional, paraprofessional, and lay personnel necessary to carry out such programs. Directs the Administrator to ensure that all potentially eligible veterans are advised of such potential eligibility. Authorizes the Administrator to provide a preventive health care program to ensure the best possible health care for veterans with service-connected disabilities. Directs the Administrator to provide for a health maintenance pilot program to demonstrate the medical advantages and cost-effectiveness of furnishing comprehensive preventive health care services to veterans with varied types and degrees of service-connected disabilities. Requires a comprehensive annual report to Congress on such programs. Requires the Administrator to carry out programs providing inpatient and outpatient treatment and rehabilitation services on a nationwide basis to eligible veterans suffering from alcohol or drug dependence or abuse disabilities. Directs the Administrator to assist the Secretary of Labor in providing veterans receiving such treatment with appropriate job and training opportunities. Requires the Administrator, when an applicant for such treatment has received a less than honorable discharge from the armed services, to advise such applicant of his right to apply for review and correction of such discharge. Requires the provision of such services to eligible veterans who are charged with or convicted of any criminal offense and who are not confined and not required to participate in such a treatment program; and permits provision of such services, under specified conditions, to eligible veterans similarly charged or convicted, if a court does require participation in such a program. Allows a member of the active armed services with alcohol or drug problems to transfer to any Veterans' Administration facility for treatment within the last 30 days of such member's tour of duty. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and the Administrator to coordinate the Professional Standards Review program carried out under part B of title XI (General Provision) of the Social Security Act and the comparable programs carried out by the Department of Medicine and Surgery to assess the quality of patient care in Veterans' Administration health care facilities. Requires the Chief Medical Director, through the Administrator, to report to Congress on the effectiveness of such coordination. Requires the Chief Medical Director to report to Congress, not later than three months after the end of each fiscal year, on all activities in which he or a designee, as a representative of the Veterans' Administration, has participated in an advisory or coordinating capacity with respect to programs carried out by the executive branch.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, so as to require that appointments as members of the Board of Veterans Appeals shall be limited to those who have had a period of active duty, or active duty for training, with the military, naval, or air services.

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1977

Requires that persons recommended for appointment as a member of the Board of Veterans Appeals have served a period of active duty, or active duty for training, with the military, naval, or air service of the United States.

A bill to amend section 1448 of title 10, United States Code, to provide survivor benefits in case of death of certain members or former members of the armed forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-Regular service.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1977

Grants survivor benefits to dependents of present or former members of the armed forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-regular service. Stipulates that such amount be 55 percent of the retired pay to which such member would have been entitled. Adds 10 U.S.C. 1448(e).

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide counseling for certain veterans; to permit acceleration of monthly educational assistance payments to eligible veterans and dependents; to revise the criteria for nonaccredited courses; to provide alternative financial and educational assistance to peacetime post-Korean veterans affected by the expiration of their delimiting period; to provide for a conditional extension of the delimiting period for certain Vietnam-era veterans; to provide for the development of additional educational, employment, and readjustment assistance programs for veterans; to provide for the correction and preclusion of, and protection against, abuses and misuse of veterans benefits; and to otherwise enhance and improve the effectiveness, integrity, and utilization of veterans readjustment assistance programs.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 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.

Veterans Education Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1977

Veterans Education Reform Act -- Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to discontinue educational assistance to an eligible veteran or survivor or dependent of a veteran if the Administrator finds that the institution of higher learning concerned has failed to enforce its regularly prescribed standards and practices as approved by the appropriate State approving agency with respect to such veteran or person. Denies the Administrator any authority to prescribe educational standards or practices with respect to any institution of higher learning empowered to award a standard college degree. Requires the Administrator to provide individual educational and career counseling and other appropriate services to facilitate the education of any veteran or person whose educational assistance has been discontinued under this Act.

A bill to provide for the personal safety of those persons engaged in furthering the foreign intelligence operations of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 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.

World War I Pension Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 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.

Einstellung hauptamtlicher Lehrer bei Bundeswehr und Bundesgrenzschutz anstelle der nebenamtlichen Lehrkräfte (G-SIG: 00042205)

Germany · German Bundestag · 3 August 1977

Verzicht der französischen Streitkräfte auf die Benutzung des Truppenübungsplatzes Münsingen sowie Zahl der Übungstage mit scharfem Schuß durch Einheiten der Bundeswehr (G-SIG: 00042223)

Germany · German Bundestag · 3 August 1977

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the tax treatment of an individual who receives a retroactive determination of eligibility for disability compensation from the Veterans' Administration.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1977

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude certain military retirement pay from gross income when such pay is essentially equivalent to a veteran's disability pension which is excludable.

GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1977

GI Bill Improvements Act - Title I: GI Bill Rate Increases - Increases the rates of educational assistance, vocational rehabilitation subsistence, survivors' and dependents' educational assistance, flight training, correspondence course, and on-the-job training assistance allowances, and of education loans. Title II: Educational Assistance Program Adjustments - Excludes from the computation, pursuant to the "85-15" rule, of the percentage of students in a course who are receiving Government educational assistance those students whose fees are paid by Federal agencies other than the Veterans' Administration. Exempts from the two-year minimum period of operation rule courses offered on or immediately adjacent to a military base which are available to civilians as well as to active duty military personnel and their dependents, but only when such courses are offered outside the United States. Permits waiver of the two-year minimum period of operation rule for courses offered by branches or extensions of specified educational institutions where the Administrator finds it to be in the best interest of the eligible veteran and the Federal Government. Authorizes the Administrator to permit a person's educational progress to extend a reasonable time beyond the approved length of time without being declared unsatisfactory progress. Lowers from 30 percent to ten percent the disability rating necessary to qualify a disabled veteran for employment and training assistance. Title III: Effective Date - Makes October 1, 1977, the effective date of this Act.

A bill to deny entitlement to veteran's benefits to certain persons who would otherwise become so entitled solely by virtue of the administrative upgrading under temporarily revised standards of less than honorable discharges for service during the Vietnam era.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1977

Denies veterans' benefits retroactively to any individual whose entitlement is based on an upgraded discharge under specified revised standards not made applicable to all persons administratively discharged or released from active military service under less than honorable conditions. Requires the board of review to make a separate determination whether an upgraded individual would have been awarded an upgraded discharge under discharge review standards made applicable to all persons administratively discharged under less than honorable conditions. Entitles to veterans' benefits any individual whose upgraded discharge would have been awarded under previous unrevised review standards. Denies, as of the date of enactment, benefits for any disability incurred or aggravated during a period of service from which a veteran was discharged by reason of a bad conduct discharge. States that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should promulgate any new or revised regulations providing any unique or special advantage to veterans who have received upgraded discharges under revised standards, or otherwise make any special distinction between such veterans and other veterans. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should take all necessary action to provide that less than honorable discharges and releases of former members of the Armed Forces with respect to any period of war be reviewed under specified revised standards, if they have not been so reviewed previously.