[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 128 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 128

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain disabled 
former prisoners of war to use Department of Defense commissary stores 
                      and post and base exchanges.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Inouye introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain disabled 
former prisoners of war to use Department of Defense commissary stores 
                      and post and base exchanges.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) chapter 53 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new section:
``Sec. 1051. Use of commissary stores and post and base exchanges by 
              certain disabled former members of the armed forces
    ``(a) In this section--
            ``(1) `former prisoner of war' has the same meaning as 
        provided in section 101(32) of title 38; and
            ``(2) `service-connected' has the same meaning as provided 
        in section 101(16) of such title.
    ``(b)(1) Under regulations prescribed as provided in paragraph (2), 
a former prisoner of war who--
            ``(A) has been separated from active service in the Army, 
        the Navy, the Air Force, or the Marine Corps under honorable 
        conditions, and
            ``(B) has a service-connected disability rated by the 
        Secretary concerned or the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs 
        at 30 per centum or more,
shall be permitted to use commissary stores and post and base exchanges 
operating under the Department of Defense.
    ``(2)(A) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to 
carry out paragraph (1) in the case of commissary stores.
    ``(B) The Secretary of the military department concerned shall 
prescribe regulations to carry out paragraph (1) in the case of post or 
base exchanges operating under the jurisdiction of such military 
department.''.
    (b) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new item:

``1051. Use of commissary stores and post and base exchanges by certain 
                            disabled former members of the armed 
                            forces.''.

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