no service under this paragraph shall be deemed to constitute "maritime wartime service" if the individual fails to complete successfully the course of instruction, unless such failure is determined by the Chairman to have been for a justifiable reason; and

(2) such civilian service as defined in paragraph (1) by an individual prior to December 7, 1941, in an area which, in the discretion of the Chairman, was subjected to hazards commensurate to those determined as adequate to constitute a war zone or danger zone subsequent to December 7, 1941.

If the individual during any period is not actually performing any service described in any of the foregoing provisions of this subsection, but nevertheless is entitled by reason of service so described, to continue to receive his pay with respect to such period, as and for his maintenance, or because of an injury or disease incurred as a result of such service, then such individual shall be considered as rendering "maritime wartime service" during such period.

(e) "Wartime service seaman" means an individual with respect to whom a certificate of martime wartime service has been issued pursuant to this Act.

(f) "Disabled wartime service seaman“ means a wartime service seaman on whose certificate of maritime wartime service a disability endorsement has been made pursuant to this Act.

(g) "Deceased wartime service seaman" means a wartime service seaman on whose certificate of maritime wartime service a death endorsement has been made pursuant to this Act.

(h) "Vessel" does not include

(1) any vessel engaged in operation exclusively on the Great Lakes; or (2) any vessel engaged in operation principally within ports or inland waters; or

(3) any vessel engaged in the catching, taking, harvesting, cultivating, or farming of any kind of fish, shellfish, crustacea, sponges, seaweeds, or other aquatic forms of animal or vegetable life.

(i) "Termination of hostilities" means September 2, 1945.

(j) "State" means any of the States of the Union, any Territory or possession, or the District of Columbia.

(k) "Continental United States" means the States of the Union and the District of Columbia.

CERTIFICATES OF MARITIME WARTIME SERVICE

SEC. 102. (a) The Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission shall issue for each individual who rendered maritime service a certificate of maritime wartime service if

(1) application therefor is made prior to March 2, 1948; and

(2) such individual (A) is a citizen or was, prior to July 4, 1946, a national of the United States, or (B) is a bona fide resident of the United States, is eligible for vitizenship, and had taken out his first naturalization papers prior to March 2, 1946; and

(3) such maritime service was either

(A) of a duration of at least six months and substantially continuous by serving not less than nine months in each twelve-month period or a proportional part of periods of less than twelve months from the beginning of maritime wartime service by such individual until March 2, 1946, or until such service is or was terminated upon a finding by the Chairman, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Chairman, that the individual's continued service is or was no longer necessary but not as a result of his own misconduct; or

(B) was terminated not as a result of his own misconduct by—

(i) an injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by such service, the degree of which is determined under the regulations prescribed by the Chairman to be such as to incapacitate or to have incapacitated such individual for further maritime wartime service; or (ii) death; or

(iii) detention by the enemy.

The determination of whether maritime wartime service was substantially continuous shall be made in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Chairman: Provided, however, That such service shall be not less than nine months in

each twelve months' period or such proportional part except that in making suchTM determination, any period of absence from maritime wartime service (after rendering a period of such service) because of disease or disability (whether or not incurred in such service) or because of service in the armed forces, or required in the course of repatriation to the continental United States after separation from a vessel for reasons other than misconduct connected with service, as determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Chairman, shall be disregarded.

(b) A certificate of maritime wartime service may be issued for a seaman who is a citizen or was, prior to July 4, 1946, a national of the United States when, in the judgment of the Chairman, the denial of a certificate of maritime wartime service would be against equity or good conscience.

(c) No certificate of maritime wartime service shall be issued for

(1) any seaman, determined by evidence satisfactory to the Chairman to be guilty of mutiny, treason, sabotage, or rendering assistance to an enemy of the United States or of its allies;

(2) any seaman whose certificate of service or license or certificate of registry as staff officer has been revoked during the period of maritime wartime service by the United States Coast Guard for misconduct connected with maritime wartime service;

(3) any person who has been dishonorably discharged or disenrolled for misconduct while serving on active duty in the United States Maritime Service or while in service as an enrollee or student at any school or institution, including basic-training schools and academies of the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps and any State maritime academy, under the jurisdiction or supervision of the Administrator of the War Shipping Administration.

DISABILITY ENDORSEMENTS

SEC. 103. (a) At the time of making application for a certificate of maritime wartime service or at any time thereafter application may be made to the Chairman for a disability endorsement on a certificate of maritime wartime service. Such application shall be made by the person eligible for disability benefits under this Act on forms to be furnished by the Chairman, shall contain such information as the Chairman may require, and shall be accompanied by a statement of a medical officer of the United States, made after an examination provided for in section 106 stating the nature of the injury or disease and the nature and probable extent of the disability resulting therefrom.

(b) If the Chairman finds, subject to appeal as provided in section 602, that the injury or disease was incurred in or aggravated by maritime service, not as a result of the seaman's misconduct, he shall make an endorsement to that effect on the certificate of maritime wartime service. Whenever as a result of examination under section 106 the Chairman finds, subject to appeal as provided in section 602, that the disability has increased or decreased in extent he shall make a further endorsement on the certificate of maritime wartime service modifying the disability endorsement accordingly.

DEATH ENDORSEMENTS

SEC. 104. (a) If at the time application is made for a certificate of maritime wartime service with respect to any individual, such individual is dead, then in connection with the application for such certificate application may be made to the Chairman for a death endorsement on such certificate; and if, after a certificate of maritime wartime service has been issued with respect to any individual, such individual dies, application may be made to the Chairman for a death endorsement on such certificate. An application for a death endorsement shall be made by the persons eligible for death benefits under this Act on forms to be furnished by the Chairman and shall contain such information as the Chairman may require.

(b) If the Chairman finds, subject to appeal as provided in section 602, that death occurred during maritime wartime service, not as a result of the seaman's misconduct, or that death resulted from an injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by maritime wartime service, not as a result of the seaman's misconduct, he shall make an endorsement to that effect on the certificate of maritime wartime service.

RELEASE ENDORSEMENTS

SEC. 105. If the maritime wartime service of an individual has been terminated upon a finding by the Chairman, as provided in section 102 (a), that the continued service of such individual is or was no longer necessary, but not as a result of the seaman's misconduct, the Chairman, upon issuing a certificate of maritime wartime service with respect to such individual, shall make endorsement to that effect upon such certificate.

PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS

SEC. 106. A seaman making application for a disability endorsement on his certificate of maritime wartime service shall, as frequently and at such times and places as may be reasonably required, submit himself to examination by a medical officer of the United States or by a duly qualified physician designated or approved by such officer. The seaman may have a duly qualified physician designated and paid by him present to participate in such examination. If the seaman refuses to submit himself for or in any way obstructs any examination, his right to claim benefits under this title shall be suspended until such refusal or obstruction ceases. No benefits shall be payable under this title while such refusal or obstruction continues, and the period of such refusal or obstruction shall be deducted from the period for which benefits are payable to him. For any examination required by the Chairman, the seaman shall be paid all expenses incident to such examination which, in the opinion of the Chairman, are necessary and reasonable, including transportation and loss of wages incurred in order to submit to examination. In case of any disagreement between the physician making an examination on behalf of the Chairman and the seaman's physician, the Chairman shall appoint a third physician, duly qualified, who shall make an examination. Fees for examinations made on behalf of the Chairman by physicians other than medical officers of the United States shall be fixed by the Chairman.

TITLE II-EDUCATION AND TRAINING

CONTINUATION OF EDUCATION

SEC. 201. In order that there may be a strong, competent, and well-trained reserve of officers and seamen in the American merchant marine, it is the expressed policy of Congress that the Federal and State maritime training schools, institutions, and academies be operated so that as many maritime wartime service seamen as practicable shall be enrolled therein, and that at such times as admissions are determined upon a competitive basis preference shall be accorded maritime wartime service seamen in accordance with rules and regulations to be promulgated by the Chairman.

SEC. 202. A wartime-service seaman shall be eligible to receive education or training as herein provided. Such course of education or training shall be initiated not later than September 2, 1948, and shall not be afforded beyond September 2, 1952.

PERIOD OF TRAINING

SEC. 203. Any wartime-service seaman eligible for the benefits of this title shall be entitled to education or training, or a refresher or retraining course, at an approved educational or training institution, for a period of one year (or the equivalent thereof in continuous part-time study), or for such lesser time as may be required for the course of instruction chosen by him. Upon satisfactory completion of such course of education or training, according to regularly prescribed standards and practices of the institutions, except a refresher or retraining course, such seaman shall be entitled to an additional period of education or training not to exceed the time such seaman rendered maritimewartime service, but in no event shall the total period of education or training exceed four years. Whenever such additional period of instruction ends during a quarter or semester, and after a major part of such quarter or semester has expired, such period of instruction shall be extended to the termination of such unexpired quarter or semester. In order to continue qualified for the benefits of this title the seaman's work must continue to be satisfactory, according to the regularly prescribed standards and practices of the institution.

ADMINISTRATION

SEC. 204. The Federal Security Administrator is hereby authorized to administer this title and shall, insofar as possible, utilize existing facilities and services of Federal and State departments or agencies on the basis of mutual agreements with such departments or agencies: Provided, That with respect to the Federal and State maritime academies and training schools this title shall be administered by the Chairman.

SEC. 205. (a) From time to time the Administrator shall secure from the appropriate agency of each State a list of the educational and training institutions, including industrial establishments, within its jurisdiction, which are qualified and equipped to furnish education or training, including apprenticeship and refresher training or retraining, which institutions, together with such additional ones as may be recognized and approved by the Administrator, shall be deemed qualified and approved to furnish education or training to such wartime-service seamen who shall enroll under this title; except that wherever there are established State apprenticeship agencies expressly charged by State laws to administer apprentice training the Administrator shall, whenever possible, utilize such existing facilities and services in training on the job, when such training is of one year's duration or more.

(b) A wartime service seaman eligible for the benefits of this title shall be entitled to such course of education or training as he may elect, and at any approved educational or training institution at which he chooses to enroll, whether or not located in the State in which he resides, which will accept or retain him as a student or trainee in any field or branch of knowledge which such institution finds him qualified to undertake or pursue. Such seaman may, for reasons satisfactory to the Administrator, change his course of instruction. The course of education or training may be discontinued at any time, if it is found by the Administrator that, according to the regularly prescribed standards and practices of the institution, the conduct or progress of the seaman is unsatisfactory.

PAYMENTS BY ADMINISTRATOR

SEC. 206. (a) The Administrator shall pay the educational or training institution, for each wartime service seaman eligible for the benefits of this title and enrolled in full-time or part-time course of education or training, the customary cost of tuition, and such laboratory, library, health, infirmary, and other similar fees as are customarily charged, and may pay for books, supplies, equipment, and other necessary expenses, exclusive of board, lodging, or other living expenses and travel, as are generally required for the successful pursuit and completion of the course by other students in the institution.

(b) The payments specified in subsection (a) shall not exceed $500 for any such seaman during an ordinary school year, and no payments specified in subsection (a) shall be made to institutions, business, or other establishments furnishing apprentice training on the job.

(c) If any such institution has no established tuition fee, or if its established tuition fee shall be found by the Administrator to be inadequate compensation to such institution for furnishing such education or training, he is authorized to provide for the payment, with respect to any such seaman, of such fair and reasonable compensation as will not exceed $500 for an ordinary school year.

SUBSISTENCE DURING TRAINING

SEC. 207. (a) While enrolled in and pursuing a course under the authority of this title, a wartime service seaman, upon application to the Administrator, shall be paid a subsistence allowance of $60 per month, if without a dependent or dependents, or $80 per month if he has a dependent or dependents; but any such seaman who is either attending a course on a part-time basis or is receiving compensation for productive labor performed as part of his apprentice or other training on the job at institutions, business, or other establishments, shall be entitled to receive such lesser sums, if any, as subsistence or dependency allowances, as may be determined by the Administrator. Such subsistence and dependency allowances shall be paid during regular holidays and leave not to exeed thirty days in any one calendar year.

(b) No payments specified in subsection (a) shall be paid to any seaman who receiving a subsistence allowance from the institution at which he is enrolled.

PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL CONTROL OF INSTITUTIONS RECEIVING PAYMENTS

SEC. 208. No department, agency, or office of the United States, in carrying out the provisions of this title, shall exercise any supervision of control, whatsoever, over any State educational agency, or State apprenticeship agency, or any edu cational or training institution and nothing in this title shall be deemed to prevent any department, agency, or officer of the United States from exercising any supervision of control which such department, agency, or officer is authorized, by existing provisions of law, to exercise over any Federal educational or training institution, or to prevent the furnishing of education or training under this part in any institution over which supervision or control is exercised by such other department, agency, or officer under authority of existing provisions of law. TITLE III-EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS FOR WARTIME SERVICE SEAMEN

SEC. 301. The Administrator of the Federal Security Agency is authorized, upon the request of the Chairman and in the interest of providing wartime service seamen with the maximum job opportunity, to furnish such services and facilities as may be necessary and appropriate to such end.

REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS

SEC. 302. Section 2 (a) of the Act entitled "An Act to provide reemployment rights for persons who leave their positions to serve in the merchant marine, and for other purposes," approved June 23, 1945, is amended by striking out the word "forty" therefrom and inserting the word "ninety" in lieu thereof and by inserting after the words "completion of such service" the following: "or, in the event such person is under hospital, domiciliary, institutional, or convales cent care, for a period of not more than one year, immediately after the completion of such service, within ninety days after the termination of such care.”

TITLE IV-HOSPITALIZATION, MEDICAL TREATMENT, AND
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION

PART I-HOSPITALIZATION AND MEDICAL TREATMENT

CARE AND TREATMENT OF WAR-SERVICE SEAMEN

SEC. 401. Part C of title III of the Public Health Service Act, approved July 1, 1944, is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"CARE AND TREATMENT OF WARTIME SERVICE SEAMEN

"SEC. 22A. PURSUANT TO REGULATIONS. ** * "(a) Any wartime service seaman (as defined in the Merchant Seamen's Wartime Service Act) who qualified under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental care and treatment, and hospitalization without charge at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service as follows:

"(1) Any disabled wartime service seaman when in need of care and treatment for a disability with respect to which the disability endorsement on his certificate of maritime wartime service was made.

"(b) A wartime service seaman entitled to care and treatment under subsection (a) of this section shall be furnished transportation and other necessary expenses incidental thereto to facilities of the Public Health Service for hospitalization, domiciliary care, institutional care, convalescent care, or for the fitting or refitting of appliances under subsection (c) of this section if such seaman is unable to defray the cost of such transportation. Such transportation and other necessary expenses incidental thereto shall also be furnished to cover return travel to the place from which such seaman proceeded to the facility when such seaman is regularly discharged upon completion of such hospitaliza tion, care, fitting, or refitting and also to cover travel involved in transfer from on facility to another. All such travel shall be subject to prior authorization therefor by the Public Health Service.

"(c) Where a wartime service seaman entitled to care and treatment under subsection (a) of this section is suffering from any disability necessitating the use of appliance, including dental appliances, wheel chairs, artificial limbs,