[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3521 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3521

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to repeal the requirement that 
    amounts paid to a member of the Armed Forces under the Special 
Separation Benefits Program of the Department of Defense, or under the 
 Voluntary Separation Incentive Program of that Department, be offset 
  from amounts subsequently paid to that member by the Department of 
              Veterans Affairs as disability compensation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 1996

Ms. Brown of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on National Security

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to repeal the requirement that 
    amounts paid to a member of the Armed Forces under the Special 
Separation Benefits Program of the Department of Defense, or under the 
 Voluntary Separation Incentive Program of that Department, be offset 
  from amounts subsequently paid to that member by the Department of 
              Veterans Affairs as disability compensation.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for Disabled Veterans Act 
of 1996''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY FOR CONCURRENT RECEIPT OF SPECIAL SEPARATION BENEFIT 
              OR VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVE AND DISABILITY 
              COMPENSATION.

    (a) Special Separation Benefit.--Section 1174a(g) of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by striking out ``subsection (e)(2)(A)'' 
and inserting in lieu thereof ``subsections (e)(2)(A) and (h)(2)''.
    (b) Voluntary Separation Incentive.--Section 1175(e) of such title 
is amended by striking out paragraph (4).
    (c) Effective Dates.--The amendments made by subsections (a) and 
(b) shall take effect as of December 5, 1991.
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