Filipino Veterans Promise Act

Filipino Veterans Promise Act

This bill directs the Department of Defense to establish a process for determining whether individuals who served in the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines or in the Philippine Scouts while in the service of the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II and who are not included in the Missouri List are eligible for certain benefits relating to their U.S. service.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 111 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 111

To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a process to determine 
whether individuals claiming certain service in the Philippines during 
World War II are eligible for certain benefits despite not being on the 
                 Missouri List, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 12, 2017

Mr. Heller (for himself and Ms. Hirono) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a process to determine 
whether individuals claiming certain service in the Philippines during 
World War II are eligible for certain benefits despite not being on the 
                 Missouri List, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Filipino Veterans Promise Act''.

SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF CERTAIN SERVICE IN PHILIPPINES DURING WORLD 
              WAR II.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs and such military historians as the 
Secretary of Defense considers appropriate, shall establish a process 
to determine whether a covered individual served as described in 
subsection (a) or (b) of section 107 of title 38, United States Code, 
for purposes of determining whether such covered individual is eligible 
for benefits described in such subsections.
    (b) Covered Individuals.--For purposes of this section, a covered 
individual is any individual who--
            (1) claims service described in subsection (a) or (b) of 
        section 107 of title 38, United States Code; and
            (2) is not included in the Approved Revised Reconstructed 
        Guerilla Roster of 1948, known as the ``Missouri List''.
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