3.0.0 6645 2019-11-15T21:10:14Z 2019-11-15T21:10:14Z House H HR 2008-07-29 110 hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee House Standing Referred to 2008-07-29T14:32:30Z 2008-07-29 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2008-07-29 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2008-07-29 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress R000409 Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46] DANA ROHRABACHER R CA 46 N J000032 Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] SHEILA JACKSON-LEE D TX 18 2008-09-11 False International Affairs Asia Foreign aid and international relief Philippines Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Veterans' medical care Veterans' pensions and compensation International Affairs 00 2008-07-29 Introduced in House 2008-10-23T21:03:04Z Filipino Veterans Assistance Act of 2008 - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the Republic of the Philippines to provide benefits to persons (and certain dependents thereof) who served: (1) before July 1, 1946, in the organized military forces of the government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, while in the service of the Armed Forces of the United States; or (2) in the Philippine Scouts.

Includes within the benefits to be provided: (1) compensation for service-connected disabilities; (2) dependency and indemnity compensation; (3) medical care; (4) education benefits; and (5) death pensions.

]]> Filipino Veterans Assistance Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Filipino Veterans Assistance Act of 2008 Display Title Filipino Veterans Assistance Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced To authorize assistance to the Republic of the Philippines for the purpose of providing benefits to certain Filipino World War II veterans, and for other purposes. Introduced in House 2008-07-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr6645ih/xml/BILLS-110hr6645ih.xml 2008-07-29 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.