[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2697 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2697

To provide that certain service in the American Field Service ambulance 
  corps shall be considered active duty for the purposes of all laws 
           administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 1993

  Mr. Tanner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that certain service in the American Field Service ambulance 
  corps shall be considered active duty for the purposes of all laws 
           administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION. 1. AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE.

    Section 401 of Public Law 95-202 (38 U.S.C. 106 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``subsection (a)'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``subsections (a) and (d)'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``subsection (a)'' and 
        inserting ``subsections (a) and (d)''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
            (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, service 
        rendered before August 15, 1945, by any person who was part of 
        the enlisted wartime personnel of the American Field Service 
        ambulance corps and who reported for duty overseas during World 
        War II, shall be considered active duty for the purposes of all 
        laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.''.