[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2773 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2773

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize veterans who are 
  totally disabled as the result of a service-connected disability to 
 travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent 
 as retired members of the Armed Forces are entitled to travel on such 
                               aircraft.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 1993

 Mr. Montgomery (by request) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize veterans who are 
  totally disabled as the result of a service-connected disability to 
 travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent 
 as retired members of the Armed Forces are entitled to travel on such 
                               aircraft.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 157 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:
``Sec. 2643. Travel privileges on military aircraft: totally disabled 
              veterans
    ``(a) A veteran who is entitled to compensation from the Department 
of Veterans Affairs for a service-connected disability rated total in 
degree by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is entitled, in the same 
manner and to the same extent as retired members of the armed forces, 
to travel on a space-available basis on unscheduled military flights 
within the continental United States and on scheduled overseas flights 
operated by the Military Airlift Command.
    ``(b) In this section, the term `veteran' has the meaning given 
that term in section 101(2) of title 38.''.
    Sec. 2. The table of section at the beginning of chapter 157 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new item:

``2643. Travel privileges on military aircraft: totally disabled 
                            veterans.''.

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