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.

Summary

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.

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Timeline

1. 2 August 1977

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 2 August 1977

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 2 August 1977

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 5 August 1977

   Reported

   Reported to House from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, H. Rept. 95-580.

   Source: Committee

5. 5 August 1977

   Reported

   Reported to House from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, H. Rept. 95-580.

   Source: Committee

6. 12 September 1977

   Floor

   Measure called up under motion to suspend rules and pass in House.

   Source: Floor

7. 12 September 1977

   Vote

   Measure passed House, roll call #537 (321-75).

   Source: Floor

8. 12 September 1977

   Vote

   Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, roll call #537 (321-75).

   Source: Floor

Votes

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Versions

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 2 August 1977

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Rep. Roberts, Ray [D-TX-4] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3] · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Teague, Olin E. [D-TX-6] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Satterfield, David E., III [D-VA-3] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Montgomery, G. V. (Sonny) [D-MS-3] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Carney, Charles J. [D-OH-19] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Danielson, George E. [D-CA-30] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Brinkley, Jack [D-GA-3] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Mottl, Ronald M. [D-OH-23] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Hefner, W. G. (Bill) [D-NC-8] · D · Cosponsor
• Rep. Wylie, Chalmers P. [R-OH-15] · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Hillis, Elwood H. [R-IN-5] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Abdnor, James [R-SD] · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Walsh, William F. [R-NY-33] · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Guyer, Tennyson [R-OH-4] · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Hansen, George V. [R-ID-2] · R · Cosponsor
• Rep. Sawyer, Harold S. [R-MI-5] · R · Cosponsor
• · hsvr00 · Standing

Related records

• related to ← An Act 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 other than honorable discharges from service during the Vietnam era; to require case-by-case review under uniform, historically consistent, generally applicable standards and procedures prior to the award of veterans' benefits to persons administratively discharged under other than honorable conditions from active military, naval, or air service; and for other purposes.