[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 552 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 552

To make technical corrections to the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act 
                                of 2004.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 8, 2005

   Mr. Akaka introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To make technical corrections to the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act 
                                of 2004.

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

SECTION 1. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO VETERANS BENEFITS IMPROVEMENT ACT 
              OF 2004.

    Section 2101 of title 38, United States Code, as amended by section 
401 of the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-
454), is further amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) a new subsection (c) 
        consisting of the text of subsection (c) of such section 2101 
        as in effect immediately before the enactment of such Act, 
        modified--
                    (A) by inserting after ``(c)'' the following: 
                ``Assistance to Members of the Armed Forces.--'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the first sentence, by striking 
                        ``paragraph (1), (2), or (3)'' and inserting 
                        ``subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of 
                        paragraph (2)''; and
                            (ii) in the second sentence, by striking 
                        ``the second sentence'' and inserting 
                        ``paragraph (3)''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the first sentence, by striking 
                        ``paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``paragraph 
                        (2)''; and
                            (ii) in the second sentence, by striking 
                        ``paragraph (2)'' and inserting ``paragraph 
                        (3)''; and
            (3) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ``subsection (c)'' in 
        the matter preceding subparagraph (A) and inserting 
        ``subsection (d)''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 shall take effect immediately 
after the enactment of the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004 
(Public Law 108-454).
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