Volume 85
Public Law 92–58
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide special health care benefits for certain surviving dependents.
Approved July 29, 1971
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide special health care benefits for certain surviving dependents.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1079 of
Uniformed Services.
Dependents, medical benefits.
title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof:
“(g) When a member dies while he is eligible for receipt of hostile fire pay under section 310 of title 37, United States Code, or from a
disease or injury incurred while eligible for such pay, his dependents who are receiving benefits under a plan covered by subsection (d) of this section shall continue to be eligible for such benefits until they pass their twenty-first birthday.”
Sec. 2.
This Act becomes effective as of January 1, 1967. However,
Effective date.
no person is entitled to any benefits because of this Act for any period before the date of enactment.
Approved July 29, 1971.