Veterans Administration Medical Personnel Amendments of 1981
1981-06-03: Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Veterans.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that the pension of a veteran who is blind as a result of a non-service-connected disability and who is being furnished hospital care by the Veterans' Administration in a Veterans' Administration center operated exclusively for the rehabilitation of blinded veterans shall not be reduced because the period of care of such veteran extends more than three months.
1981-07-13: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
Veterans Insurance Amendments Act of 1981
1981-06-03: Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Veterans.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize funds to the Republic of the Philippines to assure the effective care and treatment of patients in the Veterans Memorial Medical Center.
1981-06-03: Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Veterans.
A bill to amend chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to guarantee home loans with provisions for graduated-payment plans, and for other purposes.
1981-06-30: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
Veterans Rehabilitation and Education Adjustment Act of 1981
1981-06-03: Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Veterans.
An original bill to authorize appropriations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and section 305 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended, and for other purposes.
1982-03-30: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate education loans for veterans.
1981-05-06: Committee on Veterans. Hearings held.
A bill to amend section 3105 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize, with respect to persons eligible to receive certain types of retirement pay as well as pension or compensation from the Veterans' Administration, the inclusion of both such categories of benefits in a single periodic payment.
1981-07-14: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
A bill to amend certain provisions of title 28, United States Code, relating to venue in cases of a local or regional nature which involve the United States as a party.
1981-05-11: Referred to Subcommittee on Courts.
A bill to amend section 906 of title 38, United States Code, to repeal the Administrator's authority to permit reimbursement for the cash equivalent of an official headstone or marker.
1981-07-14: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce certain disability compensation awards by the value of social security being received by the payee.
1981-07-13: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the right of the United States to recover the costs of hospital, nursing home, or outpatient medical care furnished by the Veterans' Administration to veterans for non-service-connected disabilities to the extent that they have health insurance or similar contracts or rights with respect to such care, or have entitlement to private medical care under workers' compensation or automobile accident reparation statutes of any State, and for other purposes.
1981-06-15: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to limit educational assistance payments under certain circumstances.
1982-03-29: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from OMB. Unfavorable.
A bill to amend section 314 of title 38, United States Code, to provide that veterans with service-connected disabilities rated at either 10 or 20 percent shall be paid compensation on an annual rather than monthly basis.
1981-07-14: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
A bill to amend section 315 of Title 38, United States Code, to permit veterans with disabilities rated at either 10 or 20 percent to elect to receive a single lump sum compensation payment as an alternative to the existing schedule of monthly payments.
1981-07-13: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
A bill to amend Chapter 23 of title 38, United States Code, to limit non-service-connected burial benefits to veterans with adjusted incomes of $20,000 or less, or with a net estate of $200,000 or less.
1981-07-14: Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
Veterans' Disability Compensation, Housing, and Memorial Benefits Amendments of 1981
1981-10-17: Became Public Law No: 97-66.
Veterans Programs Extension and Improvement Act of 1981
1981-06-16: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.
A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to authorize the Commission, upon determination that such action is necessary in the public interest, to issue an interim operating license authorizing fuel loading, low-power operation and testing of a nuclear power reactor in advance of the conduct of a hearing.
1981-04-08: Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.