Volume 68 · 756
Public Law 83–610
To amend the laws granting education and training benefits to certain veterans to extend the period during which such benefits may be offered.
Approved August 20, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the laws granting education and training benefits to certain veterans to extend the period during which such benefits may be offered.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
section 212 (a) of the Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 is amended by striking out “two” and inserting “three” in lieu thereof.
Section 213 of such Act is amended by striking out “seven” and inserting “eight” in lieu thereof.
Sec. 2.
The proviso in paragraph 1 of part VII of Veterans Regulation
38 USC ch. 12A.
Numbered 1 (a) is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: “, except that ‘thirteen years’ shall be substituted for ‘nine years’ in the case of any otherwise eligible person who the Administrator determines to have been prevented from entering or, having entered, from completing, training under this part within such nine years by reason of one of the following conditions:
“(a) Such person had not attained, retained, or regained medical feasibility for training because of mental or physical disability;
“(b) Such person had not met the nature of discharge requirements of section 1503 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of
1944 (38 U. S. C. 697c) prior to a change, correction, or modification of a discharge or dismissal made pursuant to section 301 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended (38
U. S. C. 693h), or the correction of a military or naval record made pursuant to section 207 of the Legislative Reorganization
Act of 1946, as amended (5 U. S. C. 191a), or other corrective action by competent authority; or
“(c) Such person had not timely established the existence of compensable disability connected with or aggravated by service.”.
Sec. 3.
That clause (1) of the Act of December 28, 1950, as amended (38 U. S. C. 701a), is amended
Vocational rehabilitation.
to read as follows:
“(1) Vocational rehabilitation based on service as prescribed in this Act may be afforded until nine years after the enactment of this amendment as to any veteran discharged or released from such service prior thereto, or otherwise until nine years after discharge or release from such service or nine years after the aforesaid termination of the period beginning June 27, 1950, whichever date is the earlier; except that ‘thirteen years’ shall be substituted for ‘nine years’ in the case of any otherwise eligible person whom the Administrator determines to have been prevented from entering or having entered, from completing, training under this Act within such nine years by reason of one of the following conditions:
“(a) Such person had not attained, retained, or regained medical feasibility for training because of mental or physical disability;
“(b) Such person had not met the nature of discharge requirements
of section 1503 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (38 U. S. C. 697c) prior to a change, correction, or modification of a discharge or dismissal made pursuant to section 301
of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended (38 U. S. C. 693h), or the correction of a military or naval record made pursuant to section 207 of the Legislative Reorganization
Act of 1946, as amended (5 U. S. C. 191a), or other corrective action by competent authority; or
“(c) Such person had not timely established the existence of compensable disability connected with or aggravated by service.”.
Approved August 20, 1954.