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Public Law 88–20
To amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide additional compensation for veterans having the service-connected disability of deafness of both ears.
Approved May 15, 1963
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide additional compensation for veterans having the service-connected disability of deafness of both ears.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 314(k)
Veterans.
Deafness, increased compensation.
of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting after “having only light perception,” each place it appears therein the following: “or deafness of both ears, having absence of air and bone conduction,”.
Sec. 2.
The amendments matte by this Act shall take effect on the first day of the second month which begins after the. date of its enactment.
Approved May 15, 1963.