[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2379 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2379

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide certain veterans an 
 opportunity to increase the amount of Veterans' Group Life Insurance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 13, 2009

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide certain veterans an 
 opportunity to increase the amount of Veterans' Group Life Insurance.

    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 ``Veterans' Group Life Insurance 
Improvement Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. INCREASED AMOUNT OF VETERANS' GROUP LIFE INSURANCE.

    Section 1977(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``Except as provided in 
        paragraph (3),'' before ``Veterans' Group Life Insurance shall 
        be''; and
            (2) by adding after paragraph (2) the following new 
        paragraph:
    ``(3) Not more than once in each five-year period beginning on the 
date a person becomes insured under Veterans' Group Life Insurance, 
such person may elect in writing to increase the amount for which the 
person is insured if--
            ``(A) the person is under the age of 60;
            ``(B) the increased amount is not more than $25,000; and
            ``(C) the amount for which the person is insured does not 
        exceed the amount provided for under section 1967(a)(3)(A)(i) 
        of this title.''.
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