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(d) Section 1612 (c) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

"(c) For the purposes of this section and section 1613 of this title, the date of an eligible veteran's discharge or release shall be the date of his discharge or release from the last period of active duty which began before the end of the induction period."

(e) Section 1613 of title 38, United States Code, is amended (1) by striking out "the end of his basic service period, whichever is earlier" and inserting in lieu thereof "the date of enactment of the Veterans' Educational Benefits Act, whichever is later"; and (2) by striking out "January 31, 1965" and inserting in lieu thereof "ten years after the end of the induction period".

(f) The table of chapters at the head of title 38, United States Code, and the table of chapters at the head of part III of such title, are each amended by striking out

"33. Education of Korean conflict veterans"

and inserting in lieu thereof

"33. Education and training".

(g) The title at the head of chapter 33 of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

"CHAPTER 33-EDUCATION AND TRAINING".

[H.R. 4788, 86th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To extend educational benefits now provided for Korean conflict veterans to persons serving in the Armed Forces after January 31, 1955, and before the termination of compulsory military service under existing laws of the United States

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Veterans' Educational Benefits Act of 1959".

SEC. 2. (a) Section 160(a) (1) of title 38 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows:

"(1) The term 'basic service period' means the period beginning on June 27, 1950, and ending on the day before the date of termination of compulsory military service under the laws of the United States, except that with respect to a person in the active service in the Armed Forces on such day, such term means the period beginning on June 27, 1950, and ending on the date of the person's first discharge or release from such service after such day."

(b) Section 1601(a) (2) (A) of such title is amended by striking out "Korean conflict", and inserting in lieu thereof "basic service period".

(c) Section 1601 (a) (2) (C) of such title is amended by striking out "Korean conflict", and inserting in lieu thereof "basic service period".

(d) Subsection (a) of section 1601 of such title is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:

"(10) The term 'date of termination of compulsory military service under the laws of the United States' means the day following the last day on which involuntary induction of civilians into the Armed Forces of the United States is authorized under (A) the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as now in effect or hereafter amended, or (B) any law enacted after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, if such law is enacted within six months after the Universal Military Training and Service Act ceases to be effective."

(e) Subsection (c) of section 1601 of such title is amended by striking out "Korean conflict", and inserting in lieu thereof "basic service period".

SEC. 3. (a) Subsection (a) of section 1612 of title 38 of the United States Code is amended by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "; except that an eligible veteran who first entered active service in the Armed Forces after January 31, 1955, and who was discharged or released from such service prior to the date of the enactment of the Veterans' Educational Benefits Act of 1959 shall be entitled to initiate a program of education or training under this chapter at any time within three years after the date of the enactment of the Veterans' Educational Benefits Act of 1959."

(b) Subsection (c) of such section is amended by—

(1) striking out "February 1, 1955" the first time it appears therein, and inserting in lieu thereof "the date of termination of compulsory military service under the laws of the United States"; and

(2) striking out "February 1, 1955" the last time it appears therein, and inserting in lieu thereof "such date".

SEC. 6. (a) The amendments made by this Act shall take effect as of February 1, 1955.

(b) The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall prescribe regulations to assure payment of benefits under chapter 33 of title 38 of the United States Code to persons who, by reason of the amendments made by this Act, become entitled to receive payment of such benefits with respect to any period prior to the date of the enactment of this Act.

[H.R. 5319, 86th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To provide readjustment assistance to veterans who serve in the Armed Forces between January 31, 1955, and July 1, 1963

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the "Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1959".

SEC. 2. (a) Title 38 of the United States Code is amended by adding after chapter 39 the following new chapter:

"CHAPTER 40-EDUCATION OF VETERANS WHO SERVE BETWEEN JANUARY 31, 1955, AND JULY 1, 1963

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"1943. Cooperation.

"1942. Approval of courses.

"1944. Use of Office of Education and other Federal agencies.

"1945. Reimbursement of expenses.

"SUBCHAPTER VI-APPROVAL OF COURSES OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

"1951. Apprentice or other training on the job.

"1952. Institutional on-farm training.

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"1955. Notice of approval of courses.

"1956. Disapproval of courses and discontinuance of allowances.

"SUBCHAPTER VII-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

"1961. Authority and duties of Administrator.

"1962. Educational and vocational counseling.
"1963. Control by agencies of United States.
"1964. Conflicting interests.

"1965. Reports by institutions.

"1966. Overpayments to veterans.

"1967. Examination of records.

"1968. False or misleading statements.

"1969. Information furnished by Federal Trade Commission.

"1970. Effective date of chapter.

"§ 1908. Definitions

"SUBCHAPTER I-DEFINITIONS

"(a) For the purpose of this chapter

"(1) The term ‘eligible veteran' means any veteran who is not on active duty and who

"(A) served on active duty at any time between January 31, 1955, and July 1, 1963;

"(B) was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable; and

"(C) served on active duty for ninety days or more (exclusive of any period he was assigned by the Armed Forces to a civilian institution for a course of education or training which was substantially the same as established courses offered to civilians, or as cadet or midshipman at one of the service academies), or was discharged or released from a period of active duty, any part of which occurred between January 31, 1955, and July 1, 1963, for an actual service-connected disability.

"(2) The term 'program of education or training' means any single unit course or subject, any curriculum, or any combination of unit courses or subjects, which is generally accepted as necessary to fulfill requirements for the attainment of a predetermined and identified educational, professional, or vocational objective.

"(3) The term 'course' means an organized unit of subject matter in which instruction is offered within a given period of time or which covers a specific amount of related subject matter for which credit toward graduation or certification is usually given.

"(4) The term 'dependent' means—

"(A) a child of an eligible veteran;

"(B) a parent of an eligible veteran, if the parent is in fact dependent upon the veteran; and

"(C) the wife of an eligible veteran, or, in the case of an eligible veteran who is a woman, her husband if he is in fact dependent upon her. "(5) The term 'educational institution' means any public or private elementary school, secondary school, vocational school, correspondence school, business school, junior college, teachers college, college, normal school, professional school, university, scientific or technical institution, or other institution furnishing education for adults.

"(6) The term 'training establishment' means any business or other establishment providing apprentice or other training on the job, including those under the supervision of a college or university or any State department of education, or any State apprenticeship agency, or any State board of vocational education. or any joint apprentice committee, or the Bureau of Apprenticeship established in accordance with chapter 4C of title 29, or any agency of the Federal Government authorized to supervise such training.

"(7) The term 'State' includes the Canal Zone.

"(8) The term 'Commissioner' means the United States Commissioner of Education.

"(b) Benefits shall not be afforded under this chapter to any individual on account of service as a commissioned officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or of the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service.

"(c) The Congress of the United States hereby declares that the veterans' education and training program created by this chapter is for the purpose of providing vocational readjustment and restoring lost educational opportunities to those service men and women whose educational or vocational ambitions have been interrupted or impeded by reason of active duty between January 31, 1955, and July 1, 1963, and for the purpose of aiding such persons in attaining the educational and training status which they might normally have aspired to and obtained had they not served their country.

"SUBCHAPTER II-ELIGIBILITY

"$ 1910. Entitlement to education or training generally

"Each eligible veteran shall, subject to the provisions of this chapter, be entitled to the education or training provided under this chapter.

"§ 1911. Duration of veteran's education or training

"(a) Each eligible veteran shall be entitled to education or training under this chapter for a period equal to one and a half times the duration of his service on active duty between January 31, 1955, and July 1, 1963, and, with respect

to an eligible veteran on active duty on June 30, 1963, service on active duty after such date until his first discharge or release from such active duty after such date (or to the equivalent thereof in part-time training), except that

"(1) in computing the duration of such service, there shall be excluded (A) any period of active duty which is creditable to an eligible veteran in determining entitlement to education or training under chapter 33. and (B) a period equal to any period he was assigned by the Armed Forces to a civilian institution for a course of education or training which was substantially the same as established courses offered to civilians or served as a cadet or midshipman at one of the service academies;

"(2) the period of education or training to which an eligible veteran shall be entitled under this chapter shall not, except as provided in subsection (b), exceed thirty-six months reduced by a period equivalent to any period of educational assistance afforded him under chapters 33 and 35 of this title; and

"(3) the period of education or training to which an eligible veteran shall be entitled under this chapter together with vocational rehabilitation training received under chapter 31 of this title, and educational training received under part VIII of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1(a), and section 12(a) of the Act enacting this title shall not, except as provided in subsection (b), exceed thirty-six months in the aggregate.

“(b) Whenever the period of entitlement to education or training under this chapter of an eligible veteran who is enrolled in an educational institution regularly operated on the quarter or semester system ends during a quarter or semester and after a major part of such semester or quarter has expired, such period shall be extended to the termination of such unexpired quarter or semester. In all other courses offered by educational institutions, whenever the period of eligibility ends after a major portion of the course is completed such period may be extended to the end of the course or for nine weeks, whichever is the lesser period.

"(c) In the case of any eligible veteran who is pursuing any program of education or training exclusively by correspondence, one-fourth of the elapsed time in following such program of education or training shall be charged against the veteran's period of entitlement.

"§ 1912. Commencement; time limitations

"(a) No eligible veteran shall be entitled to initiate a program of education or training under this chapter after three years after his discharge or release from active duty or after three years after the date of enactment of this chapter, whichever is later. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any otherwise eligible veteran whom the Administrator determines to have been prevented from initiating a program of education or training under this chapter within the period prescribed by this subsection because he had not met the nature of discharge requirements of section 1908 (a)(1)(B) of this title before a change, correction, or modification of a discharge or dismissal made pursuant to section 1553 of title 10, the correction of the military records of the proper service department under section 1552 of title 10, or other corrective action by competent authority, shall be permitted to initiate a program of education or training under this chapter within three years after the date his discharge or dismissal was so changed, corrected, or modified, or within three years after the date of enactment of this chapter, whichever is later.

"(b) The program of education and training of an eligible veteran under this chapter shall, on and after the delimiting date for the veteran to initiate his program, be pursued continuously until completion, except that an eligible veteran may suspend the pursuit of his program for periods of not more than 12 consecutive months, and may suspend the pursuit of such program for longer periods if the Administrator finds that the suspension for each such period was due to conditions beyond the control of the eligible veteran.

(c) If an eligible veteran returned to active duty before July 1, 1963, his date of discharge or release shall, for the purpose of this section and section 1913 of this title, be the date of his discharge or release from his last period of active duty which began before July 1, 1963.

$1913. Expiration of all education and training

"No education or training shall be afforded an eligible veteran under this chapter beyond eight years after his discharge or release from active duty or eight years after the enactment of the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act

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of 1959, whichever is later, except that any veteran who is eligible to initiate a program of education or training by reason of the second sentence of section 1912 (a) of this title shall be permitted to pursue, subject to the other provisions of this chapter, such program for a period of not more than five years after the date of initiation thereof; but in no event shall education or training be afforded under this chapter after June 30, 1973.

"SUBCHAPTER III-ENROLLMENT

"§ 1920. Selection of program

"Subject to the provisions of this chapter, each eligible veteran may select a program of education or training to assist him in attaining an educational, professional, or vocational objective at any educational institution or training establishment selected by him, whether or not located in the State in which he resides, which will accept and retain him as a student or trainee in any field or branch of knowledge which such institution or establishment finds him qualified to undertake or pursue. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, an eligible veteran may not pursue a program of education or training at an educational institution or training establishment which is not located in a State, unless such program is pursued at an approved educational institution of higher learning. The Administrator in his discretion may deny or discontinue the enrollment under this chapter of any veteran in a foreign educational institution if he finds that such enrollment is not for the best interest of the veteran or the Government.

"§ 1921. Applications; approval

"Any eligible veteran who desires to initiate a program of education or training under this chapter shall submit an application to the Administrator which shall be in such form, and contain such information, as the Administrator shall prescribe. The Administrator shall approve such application unless he finds that such veteran is not eligible for or entitled to the education or training applied for or that his program of education or training fails to meet any of the requirements of this chapter, or that the eligible veteran is already qualified, by reason of previous education and training, for the educational, professional, or vocational objective for which the courses of the program of education or training are offered. The Administrator shall notify the eligible veteran of the approval or disapproval of his application.

"§ 1922. Change of program

"(a) Subject to the provisions of section 1921 of this title, each eligible veteran (except an eligible veteran whose program has been interrupted or discontinued due to his own misconduct, his own neglect, or his own lack of application) may, at any time before the end of the period during which he is entitled to initiate a program of education or training under this chapter, make not more than one change of program of education or training.

"(b) Each eligible veteran, who has not made a change of program of education or training before the expiration of the period during which he is entitled to initiate a program of education or training under this chapter, may make not more than one change of program of education or training with the approval of the Administrator. The Administrator shall approve such a change if he finds that

"(1) the eligible veteran is not making satisfactory progress in his present program and that the failure is not due to his own misconduct, his own neglect, or his own lack of application, and if the program to which the eligible veteran desires to change is more in keeping with his aptitude or previous education and training; or

"(2) the program to which the eligible veteran desires to change, while not a part of the program currently pursued by him, is a normal progression from such program.

"(c) As used in this section the term 'change of program of education or training' shall not be deemed to include a change from the pursuit of one program to pursuit of another where the first program is prerequisite to, or generally required for, entrance into pursuit of the second.

"§ 1923. Disapproval of enrollment in certain courses

"(a) The Administrator shall not approve the enrollment of an eligible veteran in any bartending course, dancing course, or personality development course.

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