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HR 1408 99th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Civil service employment Employment and training programs Federal employees Federal employees and officials Korean War, 1950-1953 Labor and Employment Veterans' benefits Veterans' employment Veterans' rehabilitation Vietnam veterans

Veterans' Employment Amendments of 1985

Introduced: March 5, 1985 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 16 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 22, 1985
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.
May 20, 1985
Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
May 20, 1985
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
May 20, 1985
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
May 15, 1985
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Report No: 99-108.
May 15, 1985
Placed on Union Calendar No: 66.
May 7, 1985
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
May 7, 1985
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 3, 1985
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).
Apr 3, 1985
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 2, 1985
Executive Comment Received From VA.
Mar 19, 1985
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Mar 19, 1985
Referred to Subcommittee on Education, Training and Employment.
Mar 11, 1985
Executive Comment Requested from VA, OPM.
Mar 5, 1985
Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Mar 5, 1985
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Veterans' Employment Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act of 1983 to extend through July 1, 1986, the provisions of such Act. Increases the eligibility for job training assistance to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts by lowering the required period of unemployment necessary for such eligibility.

Increases to GS-11 the level to which veterans may be appointed for veterans readjustment appointments and career-conditional appointments (currently to GS-9). Eliminates the disability requirement as a condition to such appointments for Vietnam-era veterans.

What's happening now May 22, 1985

Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · May 14, 1985
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Mar 5, 1985
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1408: Veterans' Employment Amendments of 1985. 99th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/99-HR-1408/
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"H.R. 1408: Veterans' Employment Amendments of 1985." 99th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/99-HR-1408/.
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H.R. 1408, 99th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/99-HR-1408/.
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