Volume 80
Public Law 89–362
To amend section 3203, title 38, United States Code, to restrict the conditions under which benefits are immediately reduced upon readmission of veterans for hospitalization or other institutional care.
Approved March 7, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 3203, title 38, United States Code, to restrict the conditions under which benefits are immediately reduced upon readmission of veterans for hospitalization or other institutional care.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the last sentence of section 3203(a)(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by deleting the comma immediately after the words “upon a succeeding readmission for treatment or care” and inserting “within six months from the date of such departure,”.
Sec. 2.
Section 3203(f) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by deleting the commit immediately after “admitted to hospitalization” in the third sentence and inserting “within six months from the date of such departure,”.
Sec. 3.
The amendments made by this Act shall also apply to cases in which pension eligibility is subject to the provisions of section
9(b) of the Veterans’ Pension Act of 1959.
Approved March 7, 1966.