A bill to deny entitlement to veterans' 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 from service during the Vietnam era, and for other purposes.

Summary

Denies veterans' benefits to individuals whose discharge from service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions are administratively upgraded under the revised standards for review as implemented on or after April 5, 1977, under the Department of Defense's special discharge review program, or implemented subsequent to such date and not made generally applicable. Provides that such an individual shall be entitled to veterans' benefits if a military board of review makes an independent determination that such individual would have been awarded an upgraded discharge under specified generally applicable standards of review. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should not promulgate or amend any regulation which would provide any special advantage to veterans who have received upgraded discharges under the Department of Defense's special discharge review program.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 14 March 1979

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