Removes a limitation on pension payments to veterans without spouses or children who are receiving Department of Veterans Affairs hospital care for a period of over three months.
Reduces from two years to one the required period of marriage before the death of a totally disabled veteran in order for the surviving spouse to be eligible to receive dependency and indemnity compensation.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and Insurance.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 101-105.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 101-105.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 65.
Mr. Montgomery moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Mr. Stump demanded a second on the motion to suspend the rules.
Considered under suspension of the rules.
On ordering a second Agreed to without objection.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.
Committee on Veterans requested executive comment from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
See H.R.901.
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