[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2632 Introduced in House (IH)]


104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2632

  To ensure that payments during fiscal year 1996 of compensation for 
veterans with service-connected disabilities and payments of dependency 
  and indemnity compensation for survivors of such veterans are made 
             regardless of Government financial shortfalls.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 14, 1995

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure that payments during fiscal year 1996 of compensation for 
veterans with service-connected disabilities and payments of dependency 
  and indemnity compensation for survivors of such veterans are made 
             regardless of Government financial shortfalls.

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

SECTION 1. ENSURED PAYMENT DURING FISCAL YEAR 1996 OF VETERANS' 
              COMPENSATION AND DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION IN 
              EVENT OF LACK OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) Payments Required.--In any case during fiscal year 1996 in 
which appropriations are not otherwise available for payment of 
compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation, the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs shall nevertheless ensure that payments of 
compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation are made in 
accordance with regular procedures and schedules, and there is hereby 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary for that purpose.
    (b) Charging of Accounts When Appropriations Made.--In any case in 
which the Secretary uses the authority of subsection (a) to make 
payments of compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation, 
applicable accounts shall be charged for amounts so paid, and for the 
costs of administration of such payments, when regular appropriations 
become available for those purposes.

SEC. 2. ENSURED PAYMENT DURING FISCAL YEAR 1996 OF VETERANS' 
              COMPENSATION AND DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION IN 
              EVENT DEBT CEILING LIMIT IS REACHED.

    In any case during fiscal year 1996 in which certain functions of 
the Government are delayed, deferred, or canceled due to a limitation 
on the ability of the Government to borrow funds, the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall nevertheless ensure that payments of 
compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation are made in 
accordance with regular procedures and schedules, and receipts and 
disbursements of the Government shall be managed so as to ensure that 
the requirement imposed by this section on the Secretary is complied 
with.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act, the terms ``compensation'' and 
``dependency and indemnity compensation'' have the meanings given those 
terms in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.
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