(47) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the Repeals, center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army and certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes", approved August 26, 1957 (71 Stat. 416). (48) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, and for other purposes", approved September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1572). (49) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, and for other purposes", approved September 10, 1959 (73 Stat. 492). (50) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and certain river basin commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and for other purposes", approved October 24, 1962 (76 Stat. 1216). (51) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and certain river basin commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and for other purposes", approved December 31, 1963 (77 Stat. 844). (52) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, the Panama Canal, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Delaware River Basin Commission, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and for other purposes", approved August 30, 1964 (78 Stat. 682). 87 STAT. 87 (53) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, the Panama Canal, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Delaware River Basin Commission, and the Interoceanic Canal Commission, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for other purposes", approved October 28, 1965 (79 Stat. 1096). (54) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following Repeals. the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, the Panama Canal, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study Commission, the Delaware River Basin Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Water Resources Council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and for other purposes", approved October 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 1002). (55) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An 26-151 O-74-61 87 STAT. 88 Repeals. Ante, p. 82. 73 Stat. 453. Act making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, the Panama Canal, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study Commission, the Delaware River Basin Commission, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Water Resources Council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and for other purposes", approved November 20, 1967 (81 Stat. 471). (56) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Department of Defense, the Panama Canal, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study Commission, the Delaware River Basin Commission, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Water Resources Council, and the Atomic Energy Commission, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and for other purposes", approved August 12, 1968 (82 Stat. 705). (57) The third proviso to the paragraph immediately following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for public works for water, pollution control, and power development, including the Corps of Engineers-Civil, the Panama Canal, the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, the Bureau of Reclamation, power agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Atomic Energy Commission, and related independent agencies and commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and for other purposes", approved December 11, 1969 (83 Stat. 327). (58) The first proviso to the paragraph following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for public works for water, pollution control, and power development, including the Corps of Engineers-Civil, the Panama Canal, the Federal Water Quality Administration, the Bureau of Reclamation, power agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Atomic Energy Commission, and related independent agencies and commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and for other purposes", approved October 7, 1970 (84 Stat. 893). (59) The first proviso to the paragraph following the center heading "CEMETERIAL EXPENSES" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for public works for water and power development, including the Corps of Engineers-Civil, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bonneville Power Administration and other power agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Federal Power Commission, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Atomic Energy Commission, and related independent agencies and commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and for other purposes", approved October 5, 1971 (85 Stat. 368). (60) The Act entitled "An Act to revise eligibility requirements for burial in national cemeteries, and for other purposes", approved September 14, 1959 (73 Stat. 547). (61) The Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act of March 24, 1948. which establishes special requirements governing the selection of superintendents of national cemeteries", approved August 30, 1961 (75 Stat. 411). (b) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect in any manner the functions, powers, and duties of— (1) the Secretary of the Interior with respect to those cemeteries, memorials, or monuments under his jurisdiction on the effective date of this section, or (2) the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force with respect to those cemeteries, memorials, or monuments under his jurisdiction to which the transfer provisions of section 6(a) of this Act do not apply. SEC. 8. The first sentence of section 3505 (a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting immediately after the words "gratuitous benefits" where first appearing therein, the following: "(including the right to burial in a national cemetery)". SEC. 9. (a) The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to cause to be brought to the United States the remains of an American, who was a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, who served in Southeast Asia who lost his life during the Vietnam era, and whose identity has not been established, for burial in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia. (b) The implementation of this section shall take place after the United States has concluded its participation in hostilities in Southeast Asia, as determined by the President or the Congress of the United States. (c) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. SEC. 10. (a) The first section and sections 2, 3, 4, and 8 of this Act shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Clause (1) of section 5(a) shall take effect on the first day of the second calendar month following the date of enactment of this Act. (c) Clause (2) of section 5(a) and sections 6 and 7 of this Act shall take effect September 1, 1973, or on such earlier date as the President may prescribe and publish in the Federal Register. Approved June 18, 1973. To amend title 38 of the United States Code relating to basic provisions of the loan guaranty program for veterans. 87 STAT. 176 80 Stat. 26. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1803 Veterans. (c)(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out Loan guaranty the semicolon and all that follows thereafter and inserting in lieu program. thereof the following: ", except that in establishing the rate of interest 72 Stat. 1205; that shall be applicable to such loans, the Administrator shall consult with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development regarding the rate of interest the Secretary considers necessary to meet the mortgage market for home loans insured under section 203 (b) of the National Housing Act, and, to the maximum extent practicable, carry out a 12 USC 1709. coordinated policy on interest rates on loans insured under such section 203(b) and on loans guaranteed or insured under this chapter." Approved July 26, 1973. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 93-348 (Comm. on Veterans' Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 119 (1973): July 17, considered and passed House. July 18, considered and passed Senate, amended, in July 19, House concurred in Senate amendment. Care Expansion Public Law 93-82 To amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide improved and expanded medical and nursing home care to veterans; to provide hospital and medical care to certain dependents and survivors of veterans; to provide for improved structural safety of Veterans' Administration facilities; to improve recruitment and retention of career personnel in the Department of Medicine and Surgery; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Veterans Health United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Veterans Health Care Expansion Act of 1973“. TITLE I-HOSPITAL, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE BENEFITS Act of 1973. 72 Stat. 1141; 82 Stat. 1202. Definitions. 72 Stat. 1141. 38 USC 601. 87 STAT, 179 87 STAT. 180 Post, p. 181. 72 Stat. 1113; 80 Stat. 208. 38 USC 111. SEC. 101. (a) Subparagraph (C) of section 601 (4) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(C) private facilities for which the Administrator contracts in order to provide (i) hospital care or medical services for persons suffering fron service-connected disabilities or from disabilities for which such persons were discharged or released from the active military, naval, or air service; (ii) hospital care for women veterans; or (iii) hospital care for veterans in a State. territory, Commonwealth, or possession of the United States not contiguous to the forty-eight contiguous States, except that the annually determined average hospital patient load per thousand veteran population hospitalized at Veterans' Administration expense in Government and private facilities in each such noncontiguous State may not exceed the average patient load per thousand veteran population hospitalized by the Veterans' Administration within the forty-eight contiguous States; but authority under this clause (iii) shall expire on December 31, 1978. (b) Section 601 (5) of such title is amended to read as follows: (5) The term 'hospital care' includes "(A) (i) medical services rendered in the course of the hospitalization of any veteran, and (ii) transportation and incidental expenses for any veteran who is in need of treatment for a serviceconnected disability or is unable to defray the expense of transportation; "(B) such mental health services, consultation, professional counseling, and training (including (i) necessary expenses for transportation if unable to defray such expenses; or (ii) necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence in the case of a veteran who is receiving care for a service-connected disability, or in the case of a dependent or survivor of a veteran receiving care under the last sentence of section 613(b) of this title, under the terms and conditions set forth in section 111 of this title) of the members of the immediate family (including legal guardians) of a veteran or such a dependent or survivor of a veteran, or, in the case of a veteran or such dependent or survivor of a veteran who has no immediate family members (or legal guardian), the per son in whose household such veteran, or such a dependent or survivor certifies his intention to live, as may be necessary or appropriate to the effective treatment and rehabilitation of a veteran or such a dependent or a survivor of a veteran; and "(C)(i) medical services rendered in the course of the hospitalization of a dependent or survivor of a veteran receiving care under the last sentence of section 613(b) of this title, and (ii) transportation and incidental expenses for such dependent or survivor of a veteran who is in need of treatment for any injury, disease, or disability and is unable to defray the expense of transportation.". (c) Section 601 (6) of such title is amended by inserting immediately after "treatment," the following: "such home health services as the Administrator determines to be necessary or appropriate for the effective and economical treatment of a disability of a veteran or a dependent or survivor of a veteran receiving care under the last sentence of section 613 (b) of this title". SEC. 102. Section 610 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by (1) inserting in subsection (a) "or nursing home care" immediately after "hospital care" where it first appears; (2) striking out clause (1) (B) of subsection (a) and inserting "(B) any veteran for a non-service-connected disability if he "(c) While any veteran is receiving hospital care or nursing home care in any Veterans' Administration facility, the Administrator may, within the limits of Veterans' Administration facilities, furnish medical services to correct or treat any non-service-connected disability of such veteran, in addition to treatment incident to the disability for which he is hospitalized, if the veteran is willing, and the Administrator finds such services to be reasonably necessary to protect the health of such veteran."; and (4) adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(d) In no case may nursing home care be furnished in a hospital not under the direct and exclusive jurisdiction of the Administrator except as provided in section 620 of this title.". Post, p. 182. SEC. 103. (a) Subsection (f) of section 612 of title 38, United States Outpatient Code, is amended to read as follows: "(f) The Administrator may also furnish medical services for any disability on an outpatient or ambulatory basis care. 74 Stat. 472; 83 Stat. 168. 87 STAT Supra. 181 "(1) to any veteran eligible for hospital care under section 610 87 STAT. 180 of this title (A) where such services are reasonably necessary in preparation for, or to obviate the need of, hospital admission, or (B) where such a veteran has been granted hospital care and such medical services are reasonably necessary to complete treatment incident to such hospital care; and "(2) to any veteran who has a service-connected disability rated at 80 per centum or more.". (b) Strike out sections 613 and 614 in their entirety and insert in 72 Stat. 1143. lieu thereof: "§ 613. Medical care for survivors and dependents of certain veterans "(a) The Administrator is authorized to provide medical care, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, for"(1) the wife or child of a veteran who has a total disability, permanent in nature, resulting from a service-connected disability, and "(2) the widow or child of a veteran who died as a result of a service-connected disability 38 USC 613, 614. |