LEGISLATION RELATING TO SERVICE-CONNECTED COMPENSATION FOR VETERANS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS (ALL WARS) 356 COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' ANFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 147, 340, 373, 424, 579, 704, 709, 716, 717, 720, 736, 774, BILLS RELATING TO SERVICE-CONNECTED COMPENSATION 75181 MARCH 21, 22, AND 23, 1956 Printed for the use of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pages of all hearings are numbered cumulatively to permit a UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1956 INDEX Adair, Hon. E. Ross- American Legion: T. O. Kraabel, national rehabilitation director. C. H. Olson, assistant national legislative director_ Dr. H. D. Chapior, medical consultant__ Page 3467 3494-3500, 3520 3500, 3519, 3521 Charles W. Stevens, national rehabilitation service. 3500-3502, 3514-3520 American Medical Association: Dr. Walter B. Martin, past president_. AMVETS, John R. Holden, national legislative director. Ayres, Hon. William H.. 3523-3527, 3531, 3533-3534 3477 3478-3482 3307, 3449, 3451, 3457, 3461, 3463, 3464-3467, 3471-3473, 3476-3478, Clark, Omer W. (See Disabled American Veterans.) Government agencies views_ 3422, 3548, 3552 Veterans' organization position_ 3465-3466, 3483, 3496, 3516, 3519 Cramer, Hon. William C.. 3456-3457 Healy, A. J., national commander, Military Order of the Purple Heart 3489–3490 Henderson, Hon. John E. Holden, John R. (See AMVETS.) Johnson, Hon. Lester- 3449-3451 3454 3478 Holt, Hon. Joe__ 3453-3454 Kearney, Hon. B. W. (Pat). 3486, 3488-3489 Kraabel, T. O. (See American Legion.) Kee, Hon. Elizabeth_ 3451, 3466, 3486, 3488-3489 National Tuberculosis Association, James E. Perkins, director_. 3452 Strauss, John M., president, National Guard Association_ Thomson, Hon. E. Keith Veterans' Administration: 3467, 3471, 3478 3451, 3473, 3486-3488 3487-3488 3528-3531, 3553 3535-3556 3451, 3467, 3478, 3519-3520, Donald C. Knapp, Office of Legislation. Veterans of Foreign Wars: H. A. Calkins, director of rehabilitation 3472-3473, 3477 Omar B. Ketchum, national legislative director.. 3470-3483 3473 Wilson, Hon. Earl__ 3452 LEGISLATION RELATING TO SERVICE-CONNECTED COMPENSATION FOR VETERANS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS (ALL WARS) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1956 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in room 356, Old House Office Building, Hon. Olin E. Teague (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The committee is meeting this morning to hear testimony concerning service-connected compensation for veterans and their dependents. (The various bills and the explanation of compensation bills are as follows:) [H. R. 147, 84th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL Relating to compensation for veterans of World War II who have a service-connected or a serviceaggravated tuberculous condition Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person, who, while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States at any time between December 6, 1941, and January 1, 1947, (1) contracted a tuberculous disease of a degree compensable under any law or regulation administered by the Veterans' Administration, or (2) suffered to a compensable degree an aggravation of a tuberculous disease, shall receive for life compensation at a rate not less than the rate provided by law or regulation for a 50 per centum disability incurred in service during World War II. VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS, Hon. OLIN E. TEAGUE, Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington 25, D. C. DEAR MR. TEAGUE: Reference is made to your request for a report by the Veterans' Administration on H. R. 340, 84th Congress, a bill to amend paragraph (A) (1) of Public Law No. 662, 79th Congress, chapter 869, 2d session, and for other purposes. The bill would amend paragraph (A) (1), section 1 of the act of August 8, 1946 (60 Stat. 908; 38 U. S. C. 739), to read as follows: "That (A) (1) where any veteran having neither wife, child, nor dependent parent is being furnished hospital treatment, institutional or domiciliary care by the Veterans' Administration in any Federal or State institution, including those controlled entirely under State laws such as State soldiers' homes or hospitals wherein the veterans and their wives are cared for, any pension, compensation, or retirement pay otherwise payable shall continue without taxation or reduction for any purpose whatever." For the convenience of the committee there is attached hereto a copy of paragraph (A) (1), section 1, of the act of August 8, 1946, new language proposed by the subject bill being italicized and language proposed to be deleted being enclosed in brackets. From the standpoint of legislative drafting it should be stated that paragraph (A) (2) which is not specifically repealed by the bill is inconsistent with its terms. |