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Veterans' Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982

Introduced: July 19, 1982 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 23 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Oct 14, 1982

Became Public Law No: 97-306.

Oct 14, 1982

Signed by President.

Oct 2, 1982

Presented to President.

Oct 1, 1982

Measure Signed in Senate.

Sep 29, 1982

Senate agreed to the House amendments to the Senate amendment. By Voice Vote.

Sep 29, 1982

Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendments to the Senate amendment. By Voice Vote.

Sep 28, 1982

House Concurred, in Senate Amendments , with Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

Sep 28, 1982

Resolving differences -- House actions: House Concurred, in Senate Amendments , with Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

Sep 24, 1982

Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2913 with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.

Sep 24, 1982

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2913 with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.

Sep 24, 1982

Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 2913 amended.

Jul 30, 1982

Received in the Senate, read twice and held at the desk per the order of July 27, 1982.

Jul 27, 1982

Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 400 - 0 (Record Vote No: 215).

Jul 27, 1982

Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 400 - 0 (Record Vote No: 215).

Jul 27, 1982

Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.

Jul 23, 1982

Placed on Union Calendar No: 407.

Jul 23, 1982

Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Report No: 97-660.

Jul 22, 1982

Ordered to be Reported (Amended).

Jul 22, 1982

Provisions of H.R.5710 Incorporated in This Measure as a Committee Amendment.

Jul 22, 1982

Provisions of H.R.6315 Incorporated in This Measure as a Committee Amendment.

Jul 22, 1982

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Jul 19, 1982

Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Jul 19, 1982

Introduced in House

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Veterans Disability Compensation and Survivors' Benefits Amendments of 1982 - Title I: Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses; (5) dependency and indemnity compensation for children; and (6) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children.

Title II Program Changes - Includes within the term "active duty for training" annual training duty performed by a member of a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program as ordered for 14 or more days.

Entitles veterans with service-connected, total blindness without light perception in both eyes to the same rate of monthly disability compensation as is paid for the anatomical loss of both eyes.

Entitles to an increased rate of monthly compensation veterans with service-connected anatomical loss or loss of use of a hand or of a foot.

Requires that additional compensation for dependents be adjusted downward to the nearest dollar.

Extends dependency and indemnity compensation to survivors of veterans who were entitled to but did not receive service-connected disability compensation.

Eliminates the four year cut-off for payment of claims under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs.

Prohibits the escheat of payments to the State.

Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish a flag for burial (and subsequent retention by the next of kin) for persons designated by the Administrator as eligible for burial in a national cemetery.

Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay the burial expenses of certain veterans of war whose bodies are held by a State and not claimed.

Eliminates the requirement that the superintendent of a national cemetery under the jurisdiction of the Army be a disabled veteran.

What's happening now October 14, 1982

Became Public Law No: 97-306.

Related & companion bills 12

Bill text 1 version

Public Law PDF

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

Committees of jurisdiction 1

Veterans' Affairs Committee
House of Representatives

Cosponsors 1

Smith, Christopher H.

New Jersey · Jul 19, 1982

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