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Public Law 87–591
To amend chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, to afford additional time during which certain veterans blinded by reason of a service-connected disability may be afforded vocational rehabilitation training.
Approved August 16, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, to afford additional time during which certain veterans blinded by reason of a service-connected disability may be afforded vocational rehabilitation training.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That chapter 31 of
Blinded veterans.
Vocational rehabilitation.
72 stat. 1171.
title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 1502 the following new section:
Ҥ 1502A. Blinded veterans
“A veteran who is found to be in need of vocational rehabilitation to overcome the handicap of blindness resulting from a service-connected disability which affords basic eligibility for vocational rehabilitation under section 1502(a) of this title may be afforded such vocational rehabilitation after the termination date otherwise applicable to him, but not beyond June 30, 1975, if—
he had not previously been rehabilitated (that is, rendered employable) as the result of training furnished under this chapter, or
his blindness either has worsened, or has developed as a result of the worsening of his service-connected disability, since he was declared rehabilitated to the extent that it precludes his performing the duties of the occupation for which he was previously trained under this chapter.”
Sec. 2.
The table of sections at the head of chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding immediately below item 1502 thereof the following:
Approved August 16, 1962.