[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1260 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1260

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 20 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

  Mr. Graham introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             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 the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977 (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.''.

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