1.Short title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the
Veterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of
2009
.
(b)The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of
contents.
Sec. 2. Reference to title 38, United
States Code.
TITLE I—Insurance
matters
Sec. 101. Level-premium term life
insurance for veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Sec. 102. Supplemental insurance for
totally disabled veterans.
Sec. 103. Expansion of individuals
qualifying for retroactive benefits from traumatic injury protection coverage
under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance.
Sec. 104. Enhancement of veterans'
mortgage life insurance.
Sec. 105. Adjustment of coverage of
dependents under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance.
TITLE II—Compensation and
pension matters
Sec. 201. Cost-of-living increase for
temporary dependency and indemnity compensation payable for surviving spouses
with dependent children under the age of 18.
Sec. 202. Eligibility of veterans 65
years of age or older for service pension for a period of war.
Sec. 203. Adjustments in amounts of
dependency and indemnity compensation payable to disabled surviving spouses and
to parents of deceased veterans.
Sec. 204. Increase and
annual adjustment in limitation on pension payable to hospitalized veterans and
others.
TITLE III—Burial and
memorial matters
Sec. 301. Supplemental benefits for
veterans for funeral and burial expenses.
Sec. 302. Supplemental plot
allowances.
TITLE IV—Other
matters
Sec. 401. Eligibility of disabled
veterans and members of the Armed Forces with severe burn injuries for
automobiles and adaptive equipment.
Sec. 402. Supplemental assistance for
providing automobiles or other conveyances to certain disabled
veterans.
2.Reference to title 38, United States
CodeExcept as otherwise
expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in
terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the
reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of
title 38, United States Code.
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insurance matters</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5d6910c2-d802-4044-99ee-eb618a5eba3a" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Level-premium term life insurance for
veterans with service-connected disabilities</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48b1a815-8918-4976-bd5e-5e010bf354f7"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 19 is amended by inserting after
section 1922A the following new section:</text>
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<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3065694d-bcae-4ab8-bef1-5daf5f60da0f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1922B.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Level-premium term life insurance for
veterans with service-connected disabilities</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1e52a53d-dff0-437d-967b-93025f473eca"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In accordance with the provisions of this
section, the Secretary shall grant insurance to each eligible veteran who seeks
such insurance against the death of such veteran occurring while such insurance
is in force.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id593f74de-26af-4b89-b4fb-20126a2f914e"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible veterans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, an eligible
veteran is any veteran less than 65 years of age who has a service-connected
disability.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb02684eb-4052-45a2-8abf-76b9073ddbfa"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount of insurance</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id102a2e45-d5d6-4b13-a7cd-b34c8f9d735d"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of
insurance granted an eligible veteran under this section shall be $50,000 or
such lesser amount as the veteran shall elect. The amount of insurance so
elected shall be evenly divisible by $10,000.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4c93a2f7-af28-44a4-a9c2-10195baec447" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The aggregate amount of insurance of an
eligible veteran under this section, section 1922 of this title, and section
1922A of this title may not exceed $50,000.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97dc8370-90a8-4449-b3eb-0a261c4684f5"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reduced amount for veterans age 70 or
older</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a
veteran insured under this section who turns age 70, the amount of insurance of
such veteran under this section after the date such veteran turns age 70 shall
be the amount equal to 20 percent of the amount of insurance of the veteran
under this section as of the day before such date.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddf7c80b4-8399-4281-85f1-7485bab012e9"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Premiums</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id222a4808-318c-42b3-984f-7e8e9a847084"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Premium rates for insurance under this
section shall be based on the 2001 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Basic Table
of Mortality and interest at the rate of 4.5 per centum per annum.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id021fc262-3232-400f-83b1-213f296d7739" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of the premium charged a veteran
for insurance under this section may not increase while such insurance is in
force for such veteran.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbbeee0ed-e05f-4fab-a23c-9ee420d12147" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may not charge a premium for
insurance under this section for a veteran as follows:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc21e57e3-197b-4701-bafa-c7b58bfa8dc6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A veteran who has a service-connected
disability rated as total and is eligible for a waiver of premiums under
section 1912 of this title.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id72a9d52c-f152-41f1-9664-326279c30823"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A veteran who is 70 years of age or
older.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4ab03779-dc5e-4112-8aed-42c1d4d275ce" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insurance granted under this section shall
be on a nonparticipating basis and all premiums and other collections therefor
shall be credited directly to a revolving fund in the Treasury of the United
States, and any payments on such insurance shall be made directly from such
fund. Appropriations to such fund are hereby authorized.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0f617d21-a38e-4a65-9cab-a14da5804a94" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative costs to the Government for
the costs of the program of insurance under this section shall be paid from
premiums credited to the fund under paragraph (4), and payments for claims
against the fund under paragraph (4) for amounts in excess of amounts credited
to such fund under that paragraph (after such administrative costs have been
paid) shall be paid from appropriations to the fund.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7a0f3381-01b0-4b5e-8b14-8c3bc622ca87"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible veteran seeking insurance under
this section shall file with the Secretary an application therefor. Such
application shall be filed not later than the earlier of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id584661b0-2712-47fc-8f10-f3881fada78b"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the end of the two-year period beginning on
the date on which the Secretary notifies the veteran that the veteran has a
service-connected disability; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb9d82ce0-7233-429f-864c-74b5d1a41012"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the end of the 10-year period beginning on
the date of the separation of the veteran from the Armed Forces, whichever is
earlier.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7d70bcf4-859c-452c-b482-6a34b33184c2"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the beginning of
chapter 19 is amended by inserting after the item related to section 1922A the
following new item:</text>
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<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">1922B. Level-premium
term life insurance for veterans with service-connected
disabilities.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17b2a457-a9c2-47e8-a23b-ea848b1f5555"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exchange of service disabled veterans'
insurance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During the one-year
period beginning on the effective date of this section under subsection (d),
any veteran insured under section 1922 of title 38, United States Code, who is
eligible for insurance under section 1922B of such title (as added by
subsection (a)), may exchange insurance coverage under such section 1922 for
insurance coverage under such section 1922B.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4F45F4122D914288A3D5517523BFBF84"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section, and the
amendments made by this section, shall take effect on April 1, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB6726DAFA944401EBCC18E9FA7EE5065" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental insurance for totally disabled
veterans</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDF00E9E730234B9E9C46ADC28CFE937A"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1922A(a) is amended by striking
<quote>$20,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$30,000</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBB3ADBA6AFA144B49DA8CF4DAA7823C8"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall take effect on January 1, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24F76C5E92B94D90AE6193DBAFF3ADFA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Expansion of individuals qualifying for
retroactive benefits from traumatic injury protection coverage under
Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id564FD92F34084764A990990951F73F21"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 501(b) of the
Veterans' Housing Opportunity and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006 (Public Law
109–233; 120 Stat. 414; 38 U.S.C. 1980A note) is amended by striking <quote>,
if, as determined by the Secretary concerned, that loss was a direct result of
a traumatic injury incurred in the theater of operations for Operation Enduring
Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE743CB43D4E84210A3C432D3E28EF8F4"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The heading of such section is amended by
striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">in Operation
Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom</header-in-text></quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id96E1FBB50E2A497B8855A857CBCCEB15"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on January 1, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb36485b0-10d2-4f54-8d50-a0caa43f66c2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enhancement of veterans' mortgage life
insurance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2106(b) is
amended by striking <quote>$90,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$150,000, or
$200,000 after January 1, 2012,</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB2A1567B9B634F9A8A1721CC5B276856" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header>Adjustment of
coverage of dependents under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Clause (ii) of section 1968(a)(5)(B) is
amended to read as follows:</text>
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<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0806439C45AF4932BD9D2D90115D8320"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>120 days after
the date of the member's separation or release from the uniformed services;
or</text>
</clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compensation and pension matters</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7E587EB287B24B568C736CAF1F3FE081" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost-of-living increase for temporary
dependency and indemnity compensation payable for surviving spouses with
dependent children under the age of 18</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1311(f) is amended by adding at the
end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF07CC90641F34E7B877692477297F420" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whenever there is an increase in benefit
amounts payable under title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et
seq.) as a result of a determination made under section 215(i) of such Act (42
U.S.C. 415(i)), the Secretary shall, effective on the date of such increase in
benefit amounts, increase the amount payable under paragraph (1), as such
amount was in effect immediately prior to the date of such increase in benefit
amounts, by the same percentage as the percentage by which such benefit amounts
are increased. Any increase in a dollar amount under this paragraph shall be
rounded down to the next lower whole dollar
amount.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBBBB8DC86F4C41CBB48BBFAE8BA45B07" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility of veterans 65 years of age or
older for service pension for a period of war</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBE242C3B92A6462789B8A3095C608E5A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1513 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idADFE5DE3CA724A1D810F9D24C5FAF57C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>by
section 1521</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>by subsection
(b), (c), (f)(1), (f)(5), or (g) of that section, as the case may be and as
increased from time to time under section 5312 of this title.</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4DA2866558684611A8E61A0FF0129EB1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (b) as
subsection (c); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id902A281530254409971E5FD69BC07AA8"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (a) the
following new subsection (b):</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9C34C95EDB6748E3B74110AA1FA33BB3" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD20976D166A34975A1A934C6A49DA6BD"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The conditions in subsections (h) and (i)
of section 1521 of this title shall apply to determinations of income and
maximum payments of pension for purposes of this
section.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id0559D2083E744C788757BF84723330AF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The
amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to claims for pensions
filed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id7F1054B66944475F945980C2C57DDCB2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header>Adjustments in
amounts of dependency and indemnity compensation payable to disabled surviving
spouses and to parents of deceased veterans</header>
<subsection id="idE797F028608C4625AB5AE8AFE3105B80"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Increase in DIC
payable to disabled surviving spouses</header><text>Section 1311 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idC24686FD091349F39F72B2886792F2BA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by striking <quote>$271</quote> and inserting <quote>$325</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id8493460C72544A5AB2EB58F6E0DBDF8E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d),
by striking <quote>$128</quote> and inserting <quote>$146</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id0A4F0804F6D04942A15E7AE228246E78"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Increase in
certain DIC amounts payable to parents</header>
<paragraph id="id1B964F4F60E34247858D8E8C1D4663BA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 1315 is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="idFA58319B3A434147B642AF27A71CB6A5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<clause id="idA0229AE0296A4468880BEFF53870B7C1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>$163</quote> and inserting <quote>$661</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id8B1D614869724C2A95A7152018CF7CE3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>$5 monthly</quote> and inserting <quote>$100 monthly, as
increased from time to time under section 5312 of this title</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id196CDED346D54851827270444EEF4C7F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(2), by striking <quote>$5 monthly</quote> and inserting <quote>$100
monthly, as increased from time to time under section 5312 of this
title</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id40E95F05B2A842249092D3C85E574563"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)(2), by striking <quote>$5 monthly</quote> and inserting <quote>$100
monthly, as increased from time to time under section 5312 of this
title</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id230C5A9FB3DE43E794901D68D3E41B9F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subsection (g),
by striking <quote>$85</quote> and inserting <quote>$395</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5DE98A1E4C984E348465ED69A7778DC4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Additional
amount payable to housebound parents</header><text>Such section is further
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="id509B5820F19E423DA9E24288CF3A9258"><enum>(h)</enum><text>The monthly rate
of dependency and indemnity compensation payable to a parent shall be increased
by $146, as increased from time to time under section 5312 of this title, if
such parent—</text>
<paragraph id="id98FE91191C7A4048BA7EAC909CD2AD2B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>is, by reason of
disability, permanently housebound; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idC7A7D74EE5CA47A59BE66337091274BC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>does not qualify
for an increase in dependency and indemnity compensation under subsection (g)
of this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id3A3B65AAB1314611BC924505692324BD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Codification of
increase in rates of DIC payable to parents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1315 is further amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id5414E80E5A4C425EAEB83E2711D2EA23"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(3), by striking <quote>$4,038</quote> and inserting
<quote>$13,456</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id6282416B54DB456F99A0BD677319C4C7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idAA1FCA9DE9364819B58640C16199EAA3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>$115</quote> and inserting <quote>$412</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id98356C7C28E546B1A4379952C96AAEAB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by striking <quote>$4,038</quote> and inserting <quote>$13,456</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idBC20B933DE7E425CADA2750EE5EB8B1F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idF4F2164780C54B849163E10C8A44358E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>$109</quote> and inserting <quote>$387</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0904B5D60CEE4AA58F4CC1638D9706E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by striking <quote>$5,430</quote> and inserting <quote>$18,087</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id63A050E0E8DF41B7B5CBCA560FDDDD62"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Technical
amendment</header><text>Subsection (f)(1)(A) of such section 1315 is amended by
striking <quote>the six-months' death gratuity</quote> and inserting
<quote>death gratuity payments by the Secretary concerned under sections 1475
through 1480 of title 10 (including payments under section 307 of the Persian
Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991
(Public Law 102–25; 105 Stat. 82; 10 U.S.C. 1478 note))</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idDF94CFDBBCEE448EB1FE0C178BA02481"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Cost-of-living
adjustments</header><text>Section 5312(b)(1) is amended by striking <quote>the
monthly rate provided in subsection (g), of section 1315 of this title</quote>
and inserting <quote>the monthly rates provided in subsections (g) and (h), of
section 1315 of this title, the minimum monthly amounts of dependency and
indemnity compensation payable to parents under subsections (b)(2), (c)(2), and
(d)(2) of such section,</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id75B6438CD61849F99FBFF12961616DF4"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<paragraph id="id8534E3CC20FA4F2C86E9A025F6FCFBFC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on
October 1, 2009, and shall apply with respect to dependency and indemnity
compensation payable for months beginning on or after that date.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAE15BFEB1C9848BD8F1282861830F3F5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Prohibition on
cola in fiscal year 2010</header><text>No increase shall be made under section
5312(b)(1) of title 38, United States Code, in the minimum monthly amounts of
dependency and indemnity compensation payable under subsections (b)(2), (c)(2),
and (d)(2) of section 1315 of such title (as amended by subsection (b)(1) of
this section) during fiscal year 2010.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="S1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header>Increase and annual
adjustment in limitation on pension payable to hospitalized veterans and
others</header>
<subsection id="id4C5BB2D4B5CC46A2A3B01E191DD9D5E7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Increase and
annual adjustment</header>
<paragraph id="id2E0ECB3BBD2449189B056BA93D81037D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 5503 is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="id165B3CFB62514276A48CEB1754F4CE9A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)(1)—</text>
<clause id="id72DC894B0D734F5898F75813D0A93AD9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by striking <quote>$90 per month</quote> and inserting <quote>$100 per
month, as increased from time to time under section 5312 of this
title,</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idCB8594DA75774E48A83EEAC450274C99"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraphs
(B) and (C), by striking <quote>$90 per month</quote> each place it appears and
inserting <quote>$100 per month, as so increased,</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id02371E4E1D17451288009C9EF98AA2B8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)(2), by striking <quote>$90 per month</quote> and inserting <quote>$100 per
month, as increased from time to time under section 5312 of this
title,</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id1F4E9DE9525540C284BFDD90A8F28C3B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Annual
adjustment</header><text>Section 5312(b)(1) is amended by striking
<quote>5507(c)(2)(D) and</quote> and inserting <quote>5503, 5507(c)(2)(D),
and</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id463605741EEC4F02A151D7BE6AE24352"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability of
limitation to pension payable to certain children of veterans of a period of
war</header><text>Section 5503(d)(5) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idCABDF8EA89654F2FA9552E2E2C9BEA3E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(A)</quote> after <quote>(5)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id97B9E1F2962F4C4AB53E61DD1DD63447"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD4C9021F0CC245E98E9C5828D102003F" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id5A4167F2F45D4958BA9E3A26BD8209A3" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The provisions of
this subsection shall also apply with respect to a child entitled to pension
under section 1542 of this title in the same manner as they apply to a veteran
having neither spouse nor
child.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98C324EAE4644DE4B684DFA0757250CA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect
October 1, 2009. However no adjustment shall be made during fiscal year 2010
under section 5312(b)(1) of title 38, United States Code (as amended by
subsection (a)(2)), in the limitation under section 5503 of title 38, United
States Code (as amended by subsections (a)(1) and (b)), on amounts of pension
payable to veterans and others.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Burial and memorial matters</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC17A2055BBFE4FE68570B209A9A91F79" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental benefits for veterans for
funeral and burial expenses</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56A4EA5E41C2454BB1816BB859700DD4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funeral expenses</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8547CE730BC1417F917E15C5DEEF9E4A"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 23 is amended by inserting after
section 2302 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1F0F227B8D574CE699A27D9612B61AAA" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D078C2187894A5480EF1255AF67B6F4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2302A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funeral expenses: supplemental
benefits</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id08C196E5802046C88096FA4DD4D04DCF"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idEA281B83B0E9437BB22C83436662D48F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of funds
specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in advance in an
appropriations Act, whenever the Secretary makes a payment for the burial and
funeral of a veteran under section 2302(a) of this title, the Secretary is also
authorized and directed to pay the recipient of such payment a supplemental
payment under this section for the cost of such burial and funeral.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8BA38F4C9A274FC7B679A54CDC4A5306" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No supplemental payment shall be made under
this subsection if the Secretary has expended all funds that were specifically
provided for purposes of this subsection in an appropriations Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17BDA7CEF4234098AF422BDA5742E180"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of the supplemental payment
required by subsection (a) for any death is $900 (as adjusted from time to time
under subsection (c)).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA337A59755F6455D9A32E64CAF30C465"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to deaths that occur in any
fiscal year after fiscal year 2009, the supplemental payment described in
subsection (b) shall be equal to the sum of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4291BFB5DA32441BB3099D7900AC3008"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the supplemental payment in effect under
subsection (b) for the preceding fiscal year (determined after application of
this subsection), plus</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id558BA5FE5EC24CB9A1283094C191C12B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the amount described in section
2302(a) of this title and the amount under paragraph (1), multiplied by the
percentage by which—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6708741BB8CA4383AE4392C7EA8F3B1C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Consumer Price Index (all items, United
States city average) for the 12-month period ending on the June 30 preceding
the beginning of the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7A925CF7352D40E88E80B722DB350184"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such Consumer Price Index for the 12-month
period preceding the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6514C15A29654C48873605DE2F7E7140"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Estimates</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id030C40E017374447BDB3E6F904F28FF9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From time to time, the Secretary shall make
an estimate of—</text>
<subparagraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A79EE2174B2425BB95446154BDFC37A" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of funding that would be
necessary to provide supplemental payments under this section to all eligible
recipients for the remainder of the fiscal year in which such an estimate is
made; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCBE3A23D0E974C768D6AAF9C79217DF6" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount that Congress would need to
appropriate to provide all eligible recipients with supplemental payments under
this section in the next fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFCAE56E1CC4345599BAB23C78B860231" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the dates described in paragraph (3),
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the
estimates described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF6AB96FB53504A5AB03D36B7C0E9883C" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The dates described in this paragraph are
the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC8094C2693A744DAA2A156A813D71D76"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">April 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id105AED0A7D154A8F8068E0EA254A9B58"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">July 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id86E10836C691427EA910D5D546E8EBF3"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">September 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCA7A313809E741B8A85B455E4794686A"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date that is 60 days before the date
estimated by the Secretary on which amounts appropriated for the purposes of
this section for a fiscal year will be exhausted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90FDD29A4A41456C9E078AFB4551D4D4"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate committees of Congress
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the
term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id507404CF77264035B251EB43722F4164"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D534CD404AC41DFAE8B0C9CD8F4BE60"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38F991C35C1341D5B7CC09D82C2ABD73"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the beginning of
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item related to section 2302 the
following new item:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE5B18655AC624BC8A883FA355CB09D94" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2302A. Funeral expenses:
supplemental
benefits.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id479F89DEED6643DFAC5094504454A043"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 2302A of title 38,
United States Code (as added by this subsection).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF26911E12F8C40CEA2C5BDABFAF58D56"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Death from service-connected
disability</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF215366521CD4C3393204F39B871F682"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 23 is amended by inserting after
section 2307 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEC551C617A134D21AC399358AA080F28" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB65C04110BC54EE2B324F9152F7E061D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2307A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Death from service-connected disability:
supplemental benefits for burial and funeral expenses</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99C4126CABE941369EBA5250455F0831"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id24C09A06C35843D0A27019959DFEF809"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of funds
specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in advance in an
appropriations Act, whenever the Secretary makes a payment for the burial and
funeral of a veteran under section 2307(1) of this title, the Secretary is also
authorized and directed to pay the recipient of such payment a supplemental
payment under this section for the cost of such burial and funeral.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6172BEA97CC4A32A244FB3C6E17A9A6" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No supplemental payment shall be made under
this subsection if the Secretary has expended all funds that were specifically
provided for purposes of this subsection in an appropriations Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7F1AAA1383FE4FED9323AEA9DE97EB51"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of the supplemental payment
required by subsection (a) for any death is $2,100 (as adjusted from time to
time under subsection (c)).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9CEBC4E2812140DE9DE8AB503A7CB2DA"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to deaths that occur in any
fiscal year after fiscal year 2009, the supplemental payment described in
subsection (b) shall be equal to the sum of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2A6608C80093451F8B2EDFE8C16239E1"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the supplemental payment in effect under
subsection (b) for the preceding fiscal year (determined after application of
this subsection), plus</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55F9DFCE94A445259E50FB123A8F91F1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the amount described in section
2307(1) of this title and the amount under paragraph (1), multiplied by the
percentage by which—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id077258832F7D4D72A3B29ED75BCCCEAA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Consumer Price Index (all items, United
States city average) for the 12-month period ending on the June 30 preceding
the beginning of the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC416B0C947B74CEEBA149C874038F8FB"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such Consumer Price Index for the 12-month
period preceding the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3B41C1036C4A45F9B7B470887ACEB780"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Estimates</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idA577D6C371014534912C53909FC36E04"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From time to time, the Secretary shall make
an estimate of—</text>
<subparagraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB9B91F97C35E4DE0B2B587D5BF3C5642" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of funding that would be
necessary to provide supplemental payments under this section to all eligible
recipients for the remainder of the fiscal year in which such an estimate is
made; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55E106E8852E4185A73BA61EE8492663" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount that Congress would need to
appropriate to provide all eligible recipients with supplemental payments under
this section in the next fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9CA037741BDD4386AE01A4E94CCC66CA" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the dates described in paragraph (3),
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the
estimates described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA6A4B76C85044CB49C1B79EB53184A7F" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The dates described in this paragraph are
the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4282B27B0F0046DDB82416649568E9C0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">April 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1A44EEB31C6A4905902D86C5E8BA9B31"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">July 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC3B2A75E43C04A4484CAD3D2758C2316"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">September 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2CBAFDA0E30842A1BDA109040B5C7E95"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date that is 60 days before the date
estimated by the Secretary on which amounts appropriated for the purposes of
this section for a fiscal year will be exhausted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB70FB8EEEA284538A8916EEAF402FA51"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate committees of Congress
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the
term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id057AAEF15F3D42A5A4AB210B577BB55E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id168510E982C84EA49E09A9A8BAE8085F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCBFFD0A4F47C4F91BE8B22C091D71522"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the beginning of
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item related to section 2307 the
following new item:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8D5EE9E080084E8AA68EC6BEC06F84D0" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2307A. Death from
service-connected disability: supplemental benefits for burial and funeral
expenses.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7242131E09744CF9B157D2CE10EA03AF"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 2307A of title 38,
United States Code (as added by this subsection).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2076CDFEEE2A422EA30C7E278AD0D646"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on October 1, 2009, and shall apply with respect
to deaths occurring on or after that date.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id312272A4A07844D1A2A9320932528D37" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental plot allowances</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFA8542587F5E47C8BACB92584A132521"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 23 is amended by inserting after
section 2303 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA4B8840F9C1749E6B303E86DBC83C116" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8EE3E51E08D64B1E92FA6B12B206DDE2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2303A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental plot allowance</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id993C03CDCFA946EF9E615A505D208D28"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idED775B0E6E054D738C81E0E8BEAA9D4F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of funds
specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in advance in an
appropriations Act, whenever the Secretary makes a payment for the burial and
funeral of a veteran under section 2303(a)(1)(A) of this title, or for the
burial of a veteran under paragraph (1) or (2) of section 2303(b) of this
title, the Secretary is also authorized and directed to pay the recipient of
such payment a supplemental payment under this section for the cost of such
burial and funeral or burial, as applicable.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7770692239643BCB6AA0987B9C56796" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No supplemental plot allowance payment
shall be made under this subsection if the Secretary has expended all funds
that were specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in an
appropriations Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBB9DC251362F435D9E3224DF85BAB7CE"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of the supplemental payment
required by subsection (a) for any death is $445 (as adjusted from time to time
under subsection (c)).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE3648AE1CFE84234974C0157B5C0FD0E"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to deaths that occur in any
fiscal year after fiscal year 2009, the supplemental payment described in
subsection (b) shall be equal to the sum of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC173B3568C2A4B22B84C8ECC60F598CA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the supplemental payment in effect under
subsection (b) for the preceding fiscal year (determined after application of
this subsection), plus</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC7AF90D1803A4E2C91F4B582F61B9A87"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the amount described in section
2303(a)(1)(A) of this title and the amount under paragraph (1), multiplied by
the percentage by which—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id439B7EB56362494D9C145A7FA0DA08FD"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Consumer Price Index (all items, United
States city average) for the 12-month period ending on the June 30 preceding
the beginning of the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4B5EBDB801484EACA387DC87EF586F9D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such Consumer Price Index for the 12-month
period preceding the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19F6AA247CCF4C4EBC6AE7371A0ED271"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Estimates</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idA35F25AE8B5446D08EE49AC9A7B1C45F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From time to time, the Secretary shall make
an estimate of—</text>
<subparagraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE9C8ECDD91324C0296609F09245DA5A1" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of funding that would be
necessary to provide supplemental plot allowance payments under this section to
all eligible recipients for the remainder of the fiscal year in which such an
estimate is made; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF702566B5BBE49F0A34F61789BCBA310" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount that Congress would need to
appropriate to provide all eligible recipients with supplemental plot allowance
payments under this section in the next fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1074DCDFF35F48D9A1B062F64548C240" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the dates described in paragraph (3),
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the
estimates described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7C1142A440124D7D892F96C25442585D" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The dates described in this paragraph are
the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD62BF1C4C7A9477C82FE4369D50E14EB"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">April 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA6B522C0ECB34F708A082196569E0CB2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">July 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id017240C4489441FBB476F9DE3FA9774D"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">September 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id634871F173EC4B5888EE7B18DA03629B"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date that is 60 days before the date
estimated by the Secretary on which amounts appropriated for the purposes of
this section for a fiscal year will be exhausted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE6368D4246544634892784F87E942E65"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate committees of Congress
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the
term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE49B23AD69C241CABFF0272F7B6BE74C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAD172BAAEF4345FCB8D62199FA0BAE16"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id33E059B8174D48B7A7F48C6306E5D0E3"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the beginning of
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item related to section 2303 the
following new item:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE67C4A1CF8974E96B815D9627737FD35" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2303A. Supplemental plot
allowance.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA2A75EACD7A2440CA175628875E8C902"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on October 1, 2009, and shall apply with respect
to deaths occurring on or after that date.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id630A18DFDFBD4BB0A268FEC080CA762C"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 2303A of title 38,
United States Code (as added by subsection (a)).</text>
</subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other matters</header>
<section changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3BD0E7225AC4448E872668E25EC5EF7B" reported-display-style="strikethrough" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility of disabled veterans and
members of the Armed Forces with severe burn injuries for automobiles and
adaptive equipment</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCB85B995EDB0419696C8F76690F897E4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 3901 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE747ABCC52CD46B0B571F4CF2F1DAD50"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id94425BE254F740C28F3CE3C20DF4CD16"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding clause (i), by
striking <quote>or (iii) below</quote> and inserting <quote>(iii), or
(iv)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD5DDE99AC07C46AD955B7A6E3A444C16"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following new
clause:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE450EFF3AB4B4304A5C45B5ED6B852CD" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D9CF35A5C504DC1A4268C079528939D" indent="up1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A severe burn injury (as determined
pursuant to regulations prescribed by the
Secretary).</text>
</clause><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27542F7EA9554CA284D796CCA3DC9686"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>or
(iii)</quote> and inserting <quote>(iii), or (iv)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3457F033834847619172D44B2121C706"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Stylistic amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such section is further amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9777E4E006E6482CA2F0EC7F73E5A951"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
striking <quote>chapter—</quote> and inserting <quote>chapter:</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6ED6E758B01740E7A49C97CBCE88784E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFB704AC718804964AB937F8F32D43300"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A),
by striking <quote>means—</quote> and inserting <quote>means the
following:</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB3E3B61C02A04F7D9B873872E68D8B0D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDF02755E35D745E0B0BD91E025C498EC"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding clause (i), by
striking <quote>any veteran</quote> and inserting <quote>Any
veteran</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8BEA325544AF47EB81CEE94C14ABDAA9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clauses (i) and (ii), by striking the
semicolon at the end and inserting a period; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0CDA2EB82FED49C3915A00C5CB3EE0E7"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii), by striking
<quote>or</quote> and inserting a period; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7AFB0D45C8448B6B4E334238B32BEBF"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>any
member</quote> and inserting <quote>Any member</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id412FC727EE4946EFB747B16C6F713911" reported-display-style="strikethrough" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>402.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental assistance for providing
automobiles or other conveyances to certain disabled veterans</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4E499E864D114B41BFBC6230D3D2DBC4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 39 is amended by inserting after
section 3902 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id34D5275ED79B413EBB0CF9C8411D65DE" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23B24325E5F142B98192341B633AA98B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>3902A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental assistance for providing
automobiles or other conveyances</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBBD3424433B54F34806303082912E711"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idF5DFF71A4E214B36995E7BA10CA5862F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of funds
specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in advance in an
appropriations Act, whenever the Secretary makes a payment for the purchase of
an automobile or other conveyance for an eligible person under section 3902 of
this title, the Secretary is also authorized and directed to pay the recipient
of such payment a supplemental payment under this section for the cost of such
purchase.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFC6A2AB1C6B946E1AF6A1561B79067FD" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No supplemental payment shall be made under
this subsection if the Secretary has expended all funds that were specifically
provided for purposes of this subsection in an appropriations Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD1FBF32D9EB04661850A6E44A8F21CFD"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount of supplemental
payment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental payment
required by subsection (a) is equal to the excess of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0706DD4CCE62416AA15A50C8F514CF70"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the payment which would be determined under
section 3902 of this title if the amount described in section 3902 of this
title were increased to the adjusted amount described in subsection (c),
over</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id564E6FB8E9CF416DB72C6CFFCABEAB1C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the payment determined under section 3902
of this title without regard to this section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id525B61689D7948E9BE56920A3289D90D"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjusted amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The adjusted amount is $22,484 (as adjusted
from time to time under subsection (d)).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69D4AE91ACC940BDAB63881918C1BCCD"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idC4FFF07E51EA4563B7E5C3CC4C5754F9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective on October 1 of each year
(beginning in 2009), the Secretary shall increase the adjusted amount described
in subsection (c) to an amount equal to 80 percent of the average retail cost
of new automobiles for the preceding calendar year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA2862B81333641E0AAFE9F09C9D7C2A8" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall establish the method
for determining the average retail cost of new automobiles for purposes of this
subsection. The Secretary may use data developed in the private sector if the
Secretary determines the data is appropriate for purposes of this
subsection.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id20BB6BBC24B94A1E8A2303BFB1FA9584"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Estimates</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id1884FBB97B5D4B4EB303E5F7D1F3BC52"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From time to time, the Secretary shall make
an estimate of—</text>
<subparagraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDC44A9B5454C44469BBEC3E02FD6ACD1" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of funding that would be
necessary to provide supplemental payment under this section for every eligible
person for the remainder of the fiscal year in which such an estimate is made;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55BC9D5AB55C4082890C97AC66710CA4" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount that Congress would need to
appropriate to provide every eligible person with supplemental payment under
this section in the next fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8C68AA7D71F9431BA7A06CE52CA67007" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the dates described in paragraph (3),
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the
estimates described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" commented="no" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E9A4430528E4B8B8E71D672B099D632" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The dates described in this paragraph are
the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFF83C89AFC4C4321BFC7B67C33EB9CF2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">April 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id038E00F205A843A28A20AF7495111BE9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">July 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDFE50ACD792541E7B90787CB8DED8562"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">September 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF88AC4166E2E4E2894B906F5C80EC58C"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date that is 60 days before the date
estimated by the Secretary on which amounts appropriated for the purposes of
this section for a fiscal year will be exhausted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC6EC362C1F1949FAB3A2B6675AEBBE66"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate committees of Congress
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the
term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5E7E619D512443CCB35BF5F46C158738"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id158FADEF181A41A59038F6DA1AFC98DA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id689D86F341024BE686EA9DCD697793EF"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the beginning of
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item related to section 3902 the
following new item:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAC447FFDF25A4648BFFB341337CF3B34" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">3902A. Supplemental
assistance for providing automobiles or other
conveyances.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id301CDE4EA84D4662B501C1E626E308D6"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 3902A of title 38,
United States Code (as added by subsection (a)).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCE7A81B24C3F4DF38188A2757457DBAB"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on October 1, 2009, and shall apply with respect
to payments made in accordance with section 3902 of title 38, United States
Code, on or after that date.</text>
</subsection></section><section changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcb1c4372-a328-471b-916f-60485e862ab8" reported-display-style="italic" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title; table of contents</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3928cfef-4c1f-4401-a376-b05f76e35b69"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the
<quote><short-title>Veterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of
2009</short-title></quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd5808bbb-62e8-4eaa-b695-68b900d32c2f"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Table of contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:</text>
<toc changed="added" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry idref="idcb1c4372-a328-471b-916f-60485e862ab8" level="section">Sec. 1. Short title; table of
contents.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idfe39b107-0657-4951-b621-25f6e9d55dac" level="section">Sec. 2. Reference to title 38, United States
Code.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id30c6bfbb-f564-4d80-84d7-d1027eb0d982" level="title">TITLE I—Insurance matters</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id005038f8-195d-40e5-b0b2-499af095e88e" level="section">Sec. 101. Increase in amount of supplemental
insurance for totally disabled veterans.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id71da6fd6-8120-4dee-8f60-04de6d4e1187" level="section">Sec. 102. Adjustment of coverage of dependents
under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idE72190FE914C44B2A4D06C86AA35B02F" level="section">Sec. 103. Expansion of
individuals qualifying for retroactive benefits from traumatic injury
protection coverage under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id28015E2C0820455AA48CD5B9EEF0D148" level="section">Sec. 104. Consideration of loss
of dominant hand in prescription of schedule of severity of traumatic injury
under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idACCCCB001937472CA0F8F6868F7BBA2B" level="section">Sec. 105. Enhancement of
veterans' mortgage life insurance.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id54d0dd08-fbd5-4d6c-abd9-d0adc5052818" level="title">TITLE II—Compensation and pension
matters</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id66AD83E4A1E0438AB7040B0E61912CFD" level="section">Sec. 201. Cost-of-living
increase for temporary dependency and indemnity compensation payable for
surviving spouses with dependent children under the age of 18.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idc6930e38-1140-485f-9487-c979dacbb3b4" level="section">Sec. 202. Eligibility of veterans 65 years of
age or older for service pension for a period of war.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idE3B53F84464342B88021D1544EE8303D" level="section">Sec. 203. Clarification of
additional requirements for consideration to be afforded time, place, and
circumstances of service in determinations regarding service-connected
disabilities.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idE5ED1446FFC5435DBCE2C88DC264B278" level="section">Sec. 204. Extension of reduced
pension for certain veterans covered by Medicaid plans for services furnished
by nursing facilities.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idB051B42EB5A544E6BF9A61E51D53A5E0" level="section">Sec. 205. Enhancement of
disability compensation for certain disabled veterans with difficulties using
prostheses and disabled veterans in need of regular aid and attendance for
residuals of traumatic brain injury.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idACEC82FAF94246438F47B5731A254B4A" level="section">Sec. 206. Commencement of
period of payment of original awards of compensation for veterans retired or
separated from the uniformed services for catastrophic disability.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idBEDE45A1C1FF4F9691B08826073749EA" level="section">Sec. 207. Applicability of
limitation to pension payable to certain children of veterans of a period of
war.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idE1FA8B49A26C4CF89C98A1F35AF8F4FD" level="section">Sec. 208. Payment of dependency
and indemnity compensation to survivors of former prisoners of war who died on
or before September 30, 1999.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id7604569767BA4F6291B273B863CC7C9A" level="title">TITLE III—Readjustment and
related benefit matters</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id7D2F18C98E74440BBA9486CEF8060656" level="section">Sec. 301. Repeal of limitation
on number of veterans enrolled in programs of independent living services and
assistance.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id8e140013-fc17-46a5-be10-a5bf4089e528" level="section">Sec. 302. Eligibility of disabled veterans and
members of the Armed Forces with severe burn injuries for automobiles and
adaptive equipment.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idDF04DBDC0852477FB8C41810AD374D9B" level="section">Sec. 303. Enhancement of
automobile assistance allowance for veterans.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idDFEEEF27C04A4A4C906F67938A1A24D8" level="section">Sec. 304. Payment of unpaid
balances of Department of Veterans Affairs guaranteed loans.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id2967E6A522294A13B3A7CC5186232AAD" level="title">TITLE IV—Employment and
reemployment rights of members of the Uniformed Services</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="HE08F9AF29C404D3A00DC41F7034E34FC" level="section">Sec. 401. Waiver of sovereign
immunity under the 11th Amendment with respect to enforcement of
USERRA.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="HB321A45F253449E589B46E49C29733D5" level="section">Sec. 402. Clarifying the
definition of <quote>successor in interest</quote>.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="H7001EE785EE1441EA511B3E875BFF8F1" level="section">Sec. 403. Clarifying that
USERRA prohibits wage discrimination against members of the Armed
Forces.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id73994090215448DE9D943D2E5FDBD196" level="section">Sec. 404. Requirement that
Federal agencies provide notice to contractors of potential USERRA
obligations.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idD3A42B063F48476BAA2E922FD3FAEEC2" level="section">Sec. 405. Comptroller General
of the United States study on effectiveness of Federal programs of education
and outreach on employer obligations under USERRA.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id4A0292078CBC4692AEEFDF4F7C770947" level="section">Sec. 406. Technical
amendments.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="ida2c43340-a91b-4839-adf2-0c2dc0c6f325" level="title">TITLE V—Burial and memorial matters</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id0991d613-b1ba-4a0e-977b-ff33a6ea771d" level="section">Sec. 501. Supplemental benefits for veterans
for funeral and burial expenses.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id8e3594e6-682d-492b-942c-474e7994edd9" level="section">Sec. 502. Supplemental plot
allowances.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idb163f819-15d1-46d6-93a1-bbba870739d1" level="title">TITLE VI—Other matters</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idBD38FBC25BD64FF9852A904DDC723F2B" level="section">Sec. 601. National Academies
review of best treatments for Gulf War Illness.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id9A577C98EF2E40EEA7203E393B2F59A3" level="section">Sec. 602. Extension of National
Academy of Sciences reviews and evaluations regarding illness and service in
Persian Gulf War.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="idE8C80ABF78B74982A392FA5C6421716F" level="section">Sec. 603. Extension of
authority for regional office in Republic of the Philippines.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id4856EA51619E458FA1322C940FF526A4" level="section">Sec. 604. Aggregate amount of
educational assistance available to individuals who receive both survivors' and
dependents educational assistance and other veterans and related educational
assistance.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="id94D9250768154DE7B7E1D83851BA0E0D" level="section">Sec.
<added-phrase committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="italic">605.</added-phrase> Technical
correction.</toc-entry>
</toc>
</subsection></section><section changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfe39b107-0657-4951-b621-25f6e9d55dac" reported-display-style="italic" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reference to title 38, United States
Code</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Except as otherwise
expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in
terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the
reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of
title 38, United States Code.</text>
</section><enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insurance matters</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id005038f8-195d-40e5-b0b2-499af095e88e" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Increase in amount of supplemental
insurance for totally disabled veterans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1922A(a) is amended by striking
<quote>$20,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$30,000</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71da6fd6-8120-4dee-8f60-04de6d4e1187" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header>Adjustment of
coverage of dependents under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Clause (ii) of section 1968(a)(5)(B) is
amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id433172ba-75c4-4a30-a757-d5f1d1fc808d" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5d6fdd5-560b-4362-8a49-6f593e31bfd0"><enum>(ii)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idCDB612BBF24C46528D355E46A82C0F0A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in the case of a member
of the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service who meets the qualifications set
forth in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 1965(5) of this title, 120 days
after separation or release from such assignment; or</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1C1497AF03B94F30A0E53E707FC5F758" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in the
case of any other member of the uniformed services, 120 days after the date of
the member's separation or release from the uniformed services;
or</text>
</subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE72190FE914C44B2A4D06C86AA35B02F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Expansion of individuals qualifying for
retroactive benefits from traumatic injury protection coverage under
Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74EACB7F8FE94AF98F0A8E50CF18DF21"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 501(b) of the
Veterans' Housing Opportunity and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006 (Public Law
109–233; 120 Stat. 414; 38 U.S.C. 1980A note) is amended by striking <quote>,
if, as determined by the Secretary concerned, that loss was a direct result of
a traumatic injury incurred in the theater of operations for Operation Enduring
Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBC183F0A383446FF991F0E8B0F47B09F"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The heading of such section is amended by
striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">in Operation
Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom</header-in-text></quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9A63164AB08E4F60A30ED6EB5D2ECE9E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on October 1, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id28015E2C0820455AA48CD5B9EEF0D148" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header>Consideration of
loss of dominant hand in prescription of schedule of severity of traumatic
injury under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance</header>
<subsection id="idB43E7368BDEF4234B86000531149FE1E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1980A(d) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id8EAF9C41E36D4BD685D3EF12E3DCE15E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Payments under</quote>
and inserting <quote>(1) Payments under</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idF364BD099D9748E3913AFB401D62B7F7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD4AFF4E13C6F4C889AA83FED471CC1D8" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id685BAB6424224CD59F955538555B44DB" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>As
the Secretary considers appropriate, the schedule required by paragraph (1) may
distinguish in specifying payments for qualifying losses between the severity
of a qualifying loss of a dominant hand and a qualifying loss of a nondominant
hand.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id8CCE5AEE951D4ADEB5EDAF7869C9D26A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Payments for qualifying
losses incurred before date of enactment</header>
<paragraph id="id536498098A94426EB4574FF2C353FDD9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe in
regulations mechanisms for payments under section 1980A of title 38, United
States Code, for qualifying losses incurred before the date of the enactment of
this Act by reason of the requirements of paragraph (2) of subsection (d) of
such section (as added by subsection (a)(2) of this section).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idE27A6210D9D24D2F9813D8C888302D51"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Qualifying loss
defined</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>qualifying loss</term>
means—</text>
<subparagraph id="idE6DCEA9E00B54793AFC35B62621424C9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a loss specified in the
second sentence of subsection (b)(1) of section 1980A of title 38, United
States Code; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9BB38C91F53D4E8692B638BEC23C73BC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any other loss specified
by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs pursuant to the first sentence of that
subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idACCCCB001937472CA0F8F6868F7BBA2B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enhancement of veterans' mortgage life
insurance</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E0FA3AAF53548299B0D1CA5F5E9E0A4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2106(b) is
amended by striking <quote>$90,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$150,000, or
$200,000 after January 1, 2012,</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52F794A7D422494BB257700E264051C1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on
October 1, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compensation and pension matters</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66AD83E4A1E0438AB7040B0E61912CFD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cost-of-living increase for temporary
dependency and indemnity compensation payable for surviving spouses with
dependent children under the age of 18</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1311(f) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7286473A68CC4C5FBD33D23F98A2544B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by inserting <quote>(as
increased from time to time under paragraph (4))</quote> after
<quote>$250</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0216CDE3C75946CAA36C58F13E99DA90"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph
(5); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6241BB97270B47C3B2044B3F7BEDE900"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after paragraph (3) the
following new paragraph (4):</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddf23296f-b6d1-496f-9644-789a344e226c" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id914ea3a8-f521-4e62-91f1-01105ddd5d0e" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whenever there is an increase in benefit
amounts payable under title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et
seq.) as a result of a determination made under section 215(i) of such Act (42
U.S.C. 415(i)), the Secretary shall, effective on the date of such increase in
benefit amounts, increase the amount payable under paragraph (1), as such
amount was in effect immediately prior to the date of such increase in benefit
amounts, by the same percentage as the percentage by which such benefit amounts
are increased. Any increase in a dollar amount under this paragraph shall be
rounded down to the next lower whole dollar
amount.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc6930e38-1140-485f-9487-c979dacbb3b4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility of veterans 65 years of age or
older for service pension for a period of war</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idde73a6e2-4a90-4b52-b88f-86c5f9246d99"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1513 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4190c616-dde4-453c-a409-351eaa593774"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>by
section 1521</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>by subsection
(b), (c), (f)(1), (f)(5), or (g) of that section, as the case may be and as
increased from time to time under section 5312 of this title.</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfe2e9a93-2691-48b9-8a12-21a6fcd05e6e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (b) as
subsection (c); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9c526233-5495-4591-86b0-76116ea37f32"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (a) the
following new subsection (b):</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6d998427-331b-4711-8b61-c7e2dbd66501" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id08ea0aa4-7564-44e3-aae7-885cc326b154"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The conditions in subsections (h) and (i)
of section 1521 of this title shall apply to determinations of income and
maximum payments of pension for purposes of this
section.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id3b171253-acb6-4299-b149-9d3c18f24b24"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>The
amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to any claim for
pension filed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="idE3B53F84464342B88021D1544EE8303D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header>Clarification of
additional requirements for consideration to be afforded time, place, and
circumstances of service in determinations regarding service-connected
disabilities</header>
<subsection id="idCB9E52D7C0614F69B36D4A6F6C2ED14E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) of
section 1154 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA0EB4B2ED2924805B8B795A7F93EDA21" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idDE62CA93C2094DCBB5084F0AB2320459"><enum>(a)</enum><text>The Secretary shall
include in the regulations pertaining to service-connection of disabilities the
following:</text>
<paragraph id="id28C8EEFA3ED642159CE0ECD7924ED12C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Provisions requiring
that, in each case where a veteran is seeking service-connection for any
disability, due consideration shall be given to the places, types, and
circumstances of such veteran's service as shown by—</text>
<subparagraph id="id0FF09902018546CDB7AACAB524BB3763"><enum>(A)</enum><text>such veteran's service
record;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id76A174BD690B46FABFB2548B1135E9BF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the official history of
each organization in which such veteran served;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id942E5D8E74C243CCB7EADE003F5FC076"><enum>(C)</enum><text>such veteran's medical
records; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idFDBAF777623949F5BF1395E1212817E0"><enum>(D)</enum><text>all pertinent medical and
lay evidence.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID2dd99709a23e448e98ae6968180118ed"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Provisions generally
recognizing circumstances in which lay evidence consistent with the place,
conditions, dangers, or hardships associated with particular military service
does not require confirmatory official documentary evidence in order to
establish the occurrence of an event or exposure during active military, naval,
or air service.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idAC02252E3F484313B7E73BD0AA6E8249"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The provisions required
by section 5 of the Veterans' Dioxin and Radiation Exposure Compensation
Standards Act (Public Law 98–542; 98 Stat.
2727).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="id8531256AF6354F10A76A52C36D1212E6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<paragraph id="id921FCF91B3F144E98F6519DC5C300DE6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 210 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall promulgate regulations to
implement section 1154(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, as added by
subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id361E479D610F43FEBBCBD64B6882B4A0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Interim
regulations</header><text>In the case that the Secretary is unable to
promulgate final regulations under paragraph (1) on or before the date that is
210 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall
promulgate interim regulations on or before such date to be in effect until
such time as the Secretary promulgates final regulations.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idE5ED1446FFC5435DBCE2C88DC264B278" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header>Extension of reduced
pension for certain veterans covered by Medicaid plans for services furnished
by nursing facilities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
5503(d)(7) is amended by striking <quote>September 30, 2011</quote> and
inserting <quote>September 30, 2014</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="idB051B42EB5A544E6BF9A61E51D53A5E0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header>Enhancement of
disability compensation for certain disabled veterans with difficulties using
prostheses and disabled veterans in need of regular aid and attendance for
residuals of traumatic brain injury</header>
<subsection id="id2C9E60191CA540639538A9B3AC7A5E72"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Veterans Suffering
Anatomical Loss of Hands, Arms, or Legs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1114 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id2EDBEF9BE1BC4BD4A69E4A4A6361EC88"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (m)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idEEC2352B4E4840DA9F4030FA88DA4193"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>at a level, or with
complications,</quote> and inserting <quote>with factors</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA29F4BBE887D45B387F69AAA79F67A6B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>at
levels, or with complications,</quote> and inserting <quote>with
factors</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id7F415D7D87834C3E85F0A6D7DBB0D1AD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (n)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id5F391F5523AD496F8F2440FCDFC37429"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>at
levels, or with complications,</quote> and inserting <quote>with
factors</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD75116A6A1084EF4B308DE6B5E910734"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>so
near the hip as to</quote> and inserting <quote>with factors that</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id645E8F86886D4CF7A9560E1356D2B0C6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>so
near the shoulder and hip as to</quote> and inserting <quote>with factors
that</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5CA6F729A3224BD58AB6EFB51CAC7C81"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (o), by
striking <quote>so near the shoulder as to</quote> and inserting <quote>with
factors that</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idC97B6BA2C75C452CBFA25FFA7717C8E5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Veterans with
service-Connected disabilities in need of regular aid and attendance for
residuals of traumatic brain injury</header>
<paragraph id="idF60A55E4D62949D69089D2C628082E78"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Such section is further amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9C395899996D477ABCDED55BB2E3E954"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (p), by
striking the semicolon at the end and inserting a period; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0BEFE5E4EEE34F4CA559E99A5280D25B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following new subsection:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF259821B39654A279C38A3B3A25C318B" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection id="id5634FAF2EE3E4C0DAB636BF10AADE93D"><enum>(t)</enum><text>Subject to section
5503(c) of this title, if any veteran, as the result of service-connected
disability, is in need of regular aid and attendance for the residuals of
traumatic brain injury, is not eligible for compensation under subsection
(r)(2), and in the absence of such regular aid and attendance would require
hospitalization, nursing home care, or other residential institutional care,
the veteran shall be paid, in addition to any other compensation under this
section, a monthly aid and attendance allowance equal to the rate described in
subsection (r)(2), which for purposes of section 1134 of this title shall be
considered as additional compensation payable for disability. An allowance
authorized under this subsection shall be paid in lieu of any allowance
authorized by subsection
(r)(1).</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idAAB15BFA1FC64F72B5786906C4C91EF1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>Section 5503(c) is amended by striking <quote>in
section 1114(r)</quote> and inserting <quote>in subsection (r) or (t) of
section 1114</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38477FC366814CCAB0BC28CA227B568D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on
August 31, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="idACEC82FAF94246438F47B5731A254B4A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header>Commencement of
period of payment of original awards of compensation for veterans retired or
separated from the uniformed services for catastrophic disability</header>
<subsection id="id2C098B2B686442ED82838D74D9050A63"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Commencement of period
of payment</header><text>Subsection (a) of section 5111 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idA85A0FF375804ECE8D2734D5B65BA847"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(1)</quote> after <quote>(a)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id750D4F6297374CA0A14F1878F60A6DA8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), as
designated by paragraph (1) of this subsection, by striking <quote>in
subsection (c) of this section</quote> and inserting <quote>in paragraph (2) of
this subsection and subsection (c)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id89130336BE5249E991F1F8D22E55CCFA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9C8C37B923844CE3A2F0D6926DD3DEA2" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id2CF6DE9472844D2BAC2B55FA13FFE78B" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id678FA799B047490F9A0BA978C481635E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>In the case of a
veteran who is retired or separated from the active military, naval, or air
service for a catastrophic disability or disabilities, payment of monetary
benefits based on an award of compensation based on an original claim shall be
made as of the date on which such award becomes effective as provided under
section 5110 of this title or another applicable provision of law.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" id="idC651A5DE055D43649C4D483372436643" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text>In
this paragraph, the term <term>catastrophic disability</term>, with respect to
a veteran, means a permanent, severely disabling injury, disorder, or disease
that compromises the ability of the veteran to carry out the activities of
daily living to such a degree that the veteran requires personal or mechanical
assistance to leave home or bed, or requires constant supervision to avoid
physical harm to self or
others.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id905D5165D44E427381D8EF6054421526"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on
the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply with respect to awards of
compensation based on original claims that become effective on or after that
date.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id219EF99E3B534F24BB2D59133028398F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Technical correction
regarding waiver of retired pay</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5305 is amended by striking
<quote>section 1414</quote> and inserting <quote>sections 1212(d)(2) and
1414</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBEDE45A1C1FF4F9691B08826073749EA"><enum>207.</enum><header>Applicability of
limitation to pension payable to certain children of veterans of a period of
war</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5503(d)(5) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBDA0A3ED2F26499DA231043986E323E9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> after
<quote>(5)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC6703224F6884F9DA69A6F021044E17A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38B60CEE2DC644DF9CEB6BA053F9ACD0" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBE8D6E7BE5484745B76052F4F89B87B8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The provisions of this
subsection shall apply with respect to a child entitled to pension under
section 1542 of this title in the same manner as they apply to a veteran having
neither spouse nor
child.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE1FA8B49A26C4CF89C98A1F35AF8F4FD"><enum>208.</enum><header>Payment of dependency
and indemnity compensation to survivors of former prisoners of war who died on
or before September 30, 1999</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1318(b)(3) is amended by striking
<quote>who died after September 30, 1999,</quote>.</text>
</section><enum>III</enum><header>Readjustment and
related benefit matters</header>
<section id="id7D2F18C98E74440BBA9486CEF8060656" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header>Repeal of limitation
on number of veterans enrolled in programs of independent living services and
assistance</header>
<subsection id="id7664BB5D524B4DCBA12F58DE269D1CD2"><enum><added-phrase committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="italic">(a)</added-phrase></enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3120 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id839E828FCA084F56B7388B36F7CC8910"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subsection
(e); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id39DB3EC736884ACCA0BB0FDDA49947D8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating
subsection (f) as subsection (e).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id25AC770A653D43D2A54683B2237BF8FF"><enum><added-phrase committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="italic">(b)</added-phrase></enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>Subsection (a) of such section is amended by striking
<quote>described in subsection (f)</quote> and inserting <quote>described in
subsection (e)</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8e140013-fc17-46a5-be10-a5bf4089e528" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility of disabled veterans and
members of the Armed Forces with severe burn injuries for automobiles and
adaptive equipment</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide6d928bb-df8e-4c70-b1d7-439abbabe700"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 3901 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6d6bd5e5-cdaf-4638-96c0-5976ccc27b67"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id250f0987-0f97-4c7d-9daa-42f2970922c4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding clause (i), by
striking <quote>in subclause (i), (ii), or (iii) below</quote> and inserting
<quote>in clause (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of this subparagraph</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1d0b16f8-4212-4f40-99ef-56d28fb4871c"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following new
clause:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79cc5b3f-8248-417a-99bc-6f88ab24eed4" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc7fc1acc-5a85-42cd-a47f-f7afa711ee3b" indent="up1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A severe burn injury (as determined
pursuant to regulations prescribed by the
Secretary).</text>
</clause><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb4c419df-e52d-4817-a20f-5832a6d52d81"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking
<quote>subclause (i), (ii), or (iii) of clause (A) of this paragraph</quote>
and inserting <quote>clause (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subparagraph
(A)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideab6c56d-7807-4950-87f9-1b421bed0546"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Stylistic amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such section is further amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida521b2b8-cbda-46dc-bf2b-5f1febad0fa9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
striking <quote>chapter—</quote> and inserting <quote>chapter:</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89afe589-c21f-4274-bf4f-52bd46fa77ee"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7dea7343-3872-4bdc-9042-f49dbbe7b439"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A),
by striking <quote>means—</quote> and inserting <quote>means the
following:</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide109619d-214f-4f5f-b880-9614cbb41736"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50cc1f74-4b2b-4f83-ae06-ef0289e7fac1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding clause (i), by
striking <quote>any veteran</quote> and inserting <quote>Any
veteran</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4a137ee2-a589-43ab-8fb9-7a458ae887fc"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clauses (i) and (ii), by striking the
semicolon at the end and inserting a period; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7d0a2754-66c6-447f-ba8e-ffe336efa71c"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii), by striking <quote>;
or</quote> and inserting a period; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd45c794a-bfe6-41c5-992d-f61629920238"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>any
member</quote> and inserting <quote>Any member</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id64B41168CAFC42238C36E90FD8F4AEB3"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">(c)</added-phrase></enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on
October 1, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="idDF04DBDC0852477FB8C41810AD374D9B"><enum>303.</enum><header>Enhancement of
automobile assistance allowance for veterans</header>
<subsection id="id5A87420A089F410588942D21A5EFCF0A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Increase in amount of
allowance</header><text>Subsection (a) of section 3902 is amended by striking
<quote>$11,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$22,500 (as adjusted from time to
time under subsection (e))</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id1E87E636881B47BC9F1026E70BDF92DA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Annual
adjustment</header><text>Such section is further amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" id="id13B38149C6E04F8EA4F45B9AAED01049" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD07544EAF9594E7FBA614BE5A99B47EB"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id8EC1D9E1A2A74A92804F890BCE06A457"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Effective on October 1
of each year (beginning in 2011), the Secretary shall increase the dollar
amount in effect under subsection (a) to an amount equal to 80 percent of the
average retail cost of new automobiles for the preceding calendar year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" id="id64D97018ABB9473A97639D7EA52C25AF" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The
Secretary shall establish the method for determining the average retail cost of
new automobiles for purposes of this subsection. The Secretary may use data
developed in the private sector if the Secretary determines the data is
appropriate for purposes of this
subsection.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D8C6EC36F98415F8AAC9C0671A375F1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on
October 1, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="idDFEEEF27C04A4A4C906F67938A1A24D8"><enum>304.</enum><header>Payment of unpaid
balances of Department of Veterans Affairs guaranteed loans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3732(a)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID93ad59a391d54fe89e908c211b4991e0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Before
suit</quote> and inserting <quote>(A) Before suit</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idB84244BEE26B4E88AA18FD480A4D8087"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23D46748336949E6A259F4CA36585F61" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="ID248ca7066f284c57bd2461362af2356b" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>In
the event that a housing loan guaranteed under this chapter is modified under
the authority provided under section 1322(b) of title 11, the Secretary may pay
the holder of the obligation the unpaid balance of the obligation due as of the
date of the filing of the petition under title 11 plus accrued interest, but
only upon the assignment, transfer, and delivery to the Secretary (in a form
and manner satisfactory to the Secretary) of all rights, interest, claims,
evidence, and records with respect to the housing
loan.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Employment and
reemployment rights of members of the Uniformed Services</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE08F9AF29C404D3A00DC41F7034E34FC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header>Waiver of sovereign
immunity under the 11th Amendment with respect to enforcement of
USERRA</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEAAE85C9E3154676AA90D38ADA8D9D62"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 4323 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H1DAD5D923B24494780FA9B7BE48B2EB5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b) by
striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" id="H4AC16F6F5AF542988C2FDD4DB2FAF689" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H7F00CB76A86A4DF4BEA4C2B5769983A8" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In
the case of an action against a State (as an employer) by a person, the action
may be brought in the appropriate district court of the United States or State
court of competent
jurisdiction.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H52A4FA78E85F431092E8DADB211C69C0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating
subsection (i) as subsection (j); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H73E3A9AA6E9D4061AA7415ACDF01D733"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after
subsection (h) the following new subsection (i):</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBBE8EE5503174D37AD80C99C7471529D" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HAEC7DE283BB146E19C9BB100B4C6355B"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Waiver of State
sovereign immunity</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H74353DB24F884BEC92335C068388303B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State’s receipt or use of Federal
financial assistance for any program or activity of a State shall constitute a
waiver of sovereign immunity, under the 11th amendment to the Constitution or
otherwise, to a suit brought by—</text>
<subparagraph changed="added" id="HF2ED98B2E3A148B280D0928E34004611" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a
person who is or was an employee in that program or activity for the rights or
benefits authorized the person by this chapter;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" id="H0093CC8161324369A8B4EA6D21D600F7" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a
person applying to be such an employee in that program or activity for the
rights or benefits authorized the person by this chapter; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" id="H22176078772B4D34AC25512E44C898EF" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a
person seeking reemployment as an employee in that program or activity for the
rights or benefits authorized the person by this chapter.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="added" id="H135637C1F01444DEB65C1ED5256700F" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In this subsection, the
term <term>program or activity</term> has the meaning given that term in
section 309 of the <act-name parsable-cite="ADA75">Age Discrimination Act of
1975</act-name> (42 U.S.C.
6107).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idD18870348DDC498798C58B230398A3F2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The
amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to—</text>
<paragraph id="id793FAD2741B641039F671DEEEA9505CD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any failure to comply
with a provision of or any violation of chapter 43 of title 38, United States
Code, that occurs before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAD4B58AA787543BB93870116AC512D1C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>all actions or complaints
filed under such chapter 43 that are commenced after the date of the enactment
of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HB321A45F253449E589B46E49C29733D5"><enum>402.</enum><header>Clarifying the
definition of <quote>successor in interest</quote></header>
<subsection id="id9A9C3155E5FB4336BF91E55AE996F522"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 4303(4) is
amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" id="HF5AF502E20EF4A02817DB25487A7FC70" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H63FC3C86B6914ED9BD00ACE0CBC342B4" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H7C4B35D0F43740D8AE427E15E1F3B9C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Whether the term
<term>successor in interest</term> applies with respect to an entity described
in subparagraph (A) for purposes of clause (iv) of such subparagraph shall be
determined on a case-by-case basis using a multi-factor test that considers the
following factors:</text>
<subclause changed="added" id="H37BE33F6685F4FA4B092A5A45FDECB35" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Substantial continuity of
business operations.</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" id="H94B51821BDC74681B288C7C9124736AD" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(II)</enum><text>Use of the same or
similar facilities.</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" id="H73A79E6307354B558482F417F24E887B" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(III)</enum><text>Continuity of work
force.</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" id="H18A5458D9CF5425A9F48D88B8F30FD4B" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>Similarity of jobs and
working conditions.</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" id="HE5AAFE83068642EDA4443ED7FF001C7E" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(V)</enum><text>Similarity of supervisory
personnel.</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" id="H0A8A2F6BB80041B8007529BC386BE65D" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>Similarity of machinery,
equipment, and production methods.</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" id="H5273B3BA003F4F9798FFD8BD53D74CB0" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(VII)</enum><text>Similarity of products
or services.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause changed="added" id="HE0877AEA56E6402786CC1234E375954" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The
entity's lack of notice or awareness of a potential or pending claim under this
chapter at the time of a merger, acquisition, or other form of succession shall
not be considered when applying the multi-factor test under clause
(i).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="idC351CFC392E440FCBD563692FF2F530F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The
amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to—</text>
<paragraph id="id82E17F007F1F48768C03219F15DE5A26"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any failure to comply
with a provision of or any violation of chapter 43 of title 38, United States
Code, that occurs before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF129A6184BB84B8E969AE5F224AB63E3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>all actions or complaints
filed under such chapter 43 that are pending on or after the date of the
enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H7001EE785EE1441EA511B3E875BFF8F1"><enum>403.</enum><header>Clarifying that USERRA
prohibits wage discrimination against members of the Armed Forces</header>
<subsection id="idB8E303F109024AA8ADF098380F38EB76"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 4303(2) is
amended by striking <quote>other than</quote> and inserting
<quote>including</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id55F0BA4E46E549AFA333EFCE4D63F67C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The
amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to—</text>
<paragraph id="idC78FE09186DF42F8BA3AAB760B70BBA7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any failure to comply
with a provision of or any violation of chapter 43 of title 38, United States
Code, that occurs before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E29FB6A7061421A9BA1AB04F3E3DF2E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>all actions or complaints
filed under such chapter 43 that are pending on or after the date of the
enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id73994090215448DE9D943D2E5FDBD196"><enum>404.</enum><header>Requirement that
Federal agencies provide notice to contractors of potential USERRA
obligations</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id030D70B14DE9438D9147173F3F3A24B3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Civilian
agencies</header><text>The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of
1949 (41 U.S.C. 251 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9486445897954054BA4BB6A1BA626AE0" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8C6813C2BB0A4EB8AED1264E7E3E1AD7"><enum>318.</enum><header>Notice to contractors
of potential obligations relating to employment and reemployment of members of
the Armed Forces</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Each contract
for the procurement of property or services that is entered into by the head of
an executive agency shall include a notice to the contractor that the
contractor may have obligations under chapter 43 of title 38, United States
Code.</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1EEDD4A24FEB4A04B882BDD9A963E804"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Armed Forces</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB6F6371A2CAE4BD2A0E2C634E9459BF3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75CC4107C8D7426884DF6ADB292B5687" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52901CC10422461BA3B4FA28CCDFF486"><enum>2334.</enum><header>Notice to contractors
of potential obligations relating to employment and reemployment of members of
the armed forces</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Each contract
for the procurement of property or services that is entered into by the head of
an executive agency shall include a notice to the contractor that the
contractor may have obligations under chapter 43 of title
38.</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id9B64CAE5709E486C85CF8920A9AA98A5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections for such chapter is amended by
adding at the end the following new item:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98F3F7CA5F024E06AF1FF7AF7AF1AA59" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry level="section">2334. Notice to contractors of potential
obligations relating to employment and reemployment of members of the armed
forces.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD3A42B063F48476BAA2E922FD3FAEEC2"><enum>405.</enum><header>Comptroller General of
the United States study on effectiveness of Federal programs of education and
outreach on employer obligations under USERRA</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFAB7C5DD91A94408B0C4886B340A5440"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study
required</header><text>The Comptroller General of the United States shall
conduct a study on the effectiveness of Federal programs of education and
outreach on employer obligations under chapter 43 of title 38, United States
Code.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDAE1457007304DFD8C99EF41B7ABB651"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents of
study</header><text>In carrying out the study required by subsection (a), the
Comptroller General shall—</text>
<paragraph id="idD57E19B322264EDA8F5D482FD7E75A0D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>assess current practices
and procedures of Federal agencies for educating employers about their
obligations under chapter 43 of title 38, United States Code;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idCF3A8256FDAC4AE8BBC863C84C321522"><enum>(2)</enum><text>identify best practices
for bringing the employment practices of small businesses into compliance with
such chapter;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id6D2AEB3E44324762B9CA90107B2F2279"><enum>(3)</enum><text>determine whether the
Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve, the Small Business Administration,
or other agencies could collaborate to develop a program to educate employers
regarding their obligations under such chapter; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id042215DB98AF4DCABA3899EBB4B9AFFE"><enum>(4)</enum><text>determine the effect on
recruitment and retention in the National Guard and Reserves of the failure of
employers to meet their reemployment obligations under such chapter.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idA6F5B2EE55FA46469CD6453EF1537B88"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report to
Congress</header><text>Not later than June 30, 2010, the Comptroller General
shall submit to Congress a report on the study conducted under subsection (a),
including the following:</text>
<paragraph id="idDB714EEA2D2A4CCBA832D534A4A70FEC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The findings of the
Comptroller General with respect to such study.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6EA2A129D0E744D7AF7CBD2974E03BE9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The recommendations of
the Comptroller General for the improvement of education and outreach for
employers with respect to their obligations under chapter 43 of title 38,
United States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id4A0292078CBC4692AEEFDF4F7C770947"><enum>406.</enum><header>Technical
amendments</header>
<subsection id="id96A8A87DE6644A62AE3A7040EABFE628"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Amendment to
Congressional Accountability Act of 1995</header><text>Section 206(b) of the
Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1316(b)) is amended by
striking <quote>under paragraphs (1), (2)(A), and (3) of section 4323(c) of
title 38, United States Code</quote> and inserting <quote>under section 4323(d)
of title 38, United States Code</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id8A750BCB380649DF8C8ED56921A9DB6E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendment to section
416 of title 3, United States Code</header><text>Section 416(b) of title 3,
United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>under paragraphs (1) and
(2)(A) of section 4323(c) of title 38</quote> and inserting <quote>under
section 4323(d) of title 38</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id835163D0B2344AA99BE852CD9265FE79"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Amendment to section
4324 of title 38, United States Code</header><text>Section 4324(b)(4) of title
38, United States Code, is amended by inserting before the period the
following: <quote>declining to initiate an action and represent the person
before the Merit Systems Protection Board</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Burial and memorial matters</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0991d613-b1ba-4a0e-977b-ff33a6ea771d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>501.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental benefits for veterans for
funeral and burial expenses</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87734d5a-de8e-4670-b64b-7a25a5d000a7"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funeral expenses</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id34fe529d-3ddd-40b9-8e08-8a661872b837"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 23 is amended by inserting after
section 2302 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd7d43693-52de-4b2a-8bea-52e31a3a8c30" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49570615-2e42-45f5-b172-e28f79f53b71" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2302A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funeral expenses: supplemental
benefits</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0a432c2b-b51e-42b1-ad41-b3907e841e9a"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id8b6e5c8a-1387-4a1c-ae4a-31843399d7f3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of funds
specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in advance in an
appropriations Act, whenever the Secretary makes a payment for the burial and
funeral of a veteran under section 2302(a) of this title, the Secretary is also
authorized and directed to pay the recipient of such payment a supplemental
payment under this section for the cost of such burial and funeral.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc313b128-902c-44c7-82fc-e45be71ee1df" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No supplemental payment shall be made under
this subsection if the Secretary has expended all funds that were specifically
provided for purposes of this subsection in an appropriations Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide0c881d7-f00d-4d9d-8e80-5f954a227865"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of the supplemental payment
required by subsection (a) for any death is $900 (as adjusted from time to time
under subsection (c)).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf1c4b059-1def-4c3b-a666-d8020735fcbb"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to deaths that occur in any
fiscal year after fiscal year 2010, the supplemental payment described in
subsection (b) shall be equal to the sum of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4b165f25-7834-4183-9486-086ea98f262f"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the supplemental payment in effect under
subsection (b) for the preceding fiscal year (determined after application of
this subsection), plus</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4eb12b2e-3540-42bf-91de-425464b4dc14"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the amount described in section
2302(a) of this title and the amount under paragraph (1), multiplied by the
percentage by which—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf7bd87ec-b4e5-4867-8d25-dcab2be17345"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Consumer Price Index (all items, United
States city average) for the 12-month period ending on the June 30 preceding
the beginning of the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7d270aec-f9ac-442d-8c00-65869006a63f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such Consumer Price Index for the 12-month
period preceding the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf980721e-baac-4cc0-9e2d-ef5adedfdfa0"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Estimates</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="ide818e586-e4da-4adf-8427-42a396028d37"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From time to time, the Secretary shall make
an estimate of—</text>
<subparagraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb4ca63c0-b4a9-4836-9a8a-4f24a9da29ce" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of funding that would be
necessary to provide supplemental payments under this section to all eligible
recipients for the remainder of the fiscal year in which such an estimate is
made; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7793c1f0-6f93-4c25-9414-b52e70bc9d3f" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount that Congress would need to
appropriate to provide all eligible recipients with supplemental payments under
this section in the next fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57f71371-e296-4990-80e1-361d8ff777f6" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the dates described in paragraph (3),
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the
estimates described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7ea028e7-16c9-4774-b391-dfc343e73c23" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The dates described in this paragraph are
the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf921699b-eb35-4804-8b8c-a1903bc95d89"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">April 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddc48d2f7-0342-4353-baab-a0cdc7d3bcbf"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">July 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idef3208d8-7fa5-480e-bb37-01b5267e9c63"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">September 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida24f0ac1-7c63-4c52-8ce2-b8766fb36446"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date that is 60 days before the date
estimated by the Secretary on which amounts appropriated for the purposes of
this section for a fiscal year will be exhausted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide61f069f-edf0-4be1-a38b-677300324c2d"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate committees of Congress
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the
term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb3388f4a-c7ed-447c-83e4-0082093070ba"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id06667f3a-f8fd-4a20-a9f4-522c675d5c99"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4dfd2ccb-1431-4f8a-b004-525d15aa9b0c"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the beginning of
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item related to section 2302 the
following new item:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb54ff0de-7fdb-47a7-a5a9-de2b5da153eb" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2302A. Funeral expenses: supplemental
benefits.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6d4d6227-054d-4005-a2d6-827d33ef4d60"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 2302A of title 38,
United States Code (as added by this subsection).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2f8823db-7a07-484d-8952-5a9ca04710c5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Death from service-Connected
disability</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id21cd4c58-bef4-435b-80d2-2b3e9bb17542"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 23 is amended by inserting after
section 2307 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id023c55df-70c1-4a6a-aefe-b97554dedac6" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5b2de00b-7d34-4ce2-b1b9-ff00d3c3f8c7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2307A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Death from service-connected disability:
supplemental benefits for burial and funeral expenses</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfe27a810-272e-40f5-b32e-084f9a7fb64e"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id23a0d8b0-819c-421b-97f5-8acc240c2981"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of funds
specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in advance in an
appropriations Act, whenever the Secretary makes a payment for the burial and
funeral of a veteran under section 2307(1) of this title, the Secretary is also
authorized and directed to pay the recipient of such payment a supplemental
payment under this section for the cost of such burial and funeral.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8a5a9c3d-be28-4320-9110-72c3f299333f" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No supplemental payment shall be made under
this subsection if the Secretary has expended all funds that were specifically
provided for purposes of this subsection in an appropriations Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90715e40-8771-4161-87e5-620e9976ce9e"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of the supplemental payment
required by subsection (a) for any death is $2,100 (as adjusted from time to
time under subsection (c)).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id84c54552-aa62-4a61-a4d4-cca1dc49aadf"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to deaths that occur in any
fiscal year after fiscal year 2010, the supplemental payment described in
subsection (b) shall be equal to the sum of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5ea29194-c0af-4a2a-9eca-9bf04623b49d"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the supplemental payment in effect under
subsection (b) for the preceding fiscal year (determined after application of
this subsection), plus</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcefad351-ecd6-48c8-9b0f-f2ffc3351ade"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the amount described in section
2307(1) of this title and the amount under paragraph (1), multiplied by the
percentage by which—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3ebbf92a-1cb3-4a67-807e-c85a40a45dd1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Consumer Price Index (all items, United
States city average) for the 12-month period ending on the June 30 preceding
the beginning of the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2c3ccbab-422c-4e30-b738-a161e31058e5"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such Consumer Price Index for the 12-month
period preceding the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf5dd9fc3-f0e3-4463-a9f8-6f427a824e30"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Estimates</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idd1a82cbf-1c66-4c34-956a-83d9ef18bbf5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From time to time, the Secretary shall make
an estimate of—</text>
<subparagraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99ea304f-bcb9-414d-9988-5fdb20a8b534" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of funding that would be
necessary to provide supplemental payments under this section to all eligible
recipients for the remainder of the fiscal year in which such an estimate is
made; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3718fa10-ab60-4330-b54d-83fbe0526c4d" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount that Congress would need to
appropriate to provide all eligible recipients with supplemental payments under
this section in the next fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id092205cc-9958-4d4d-869d-66af8b7e5bc1" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the dates described in paragraph (3),
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the
estimates described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6722565d-3b15-4f33-8059-78d81c2940dd" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The dates described in this paragraph are
the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd5ad9082-4529-4c56-9e7b-122f133a38a4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">April 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide18320de-d691-4520-a155-06cd5818556e"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">July 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e3e978d-9c40-4f43-aadc-a74a0081c1b6"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">September 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2d2e12c8-e0f0-4d8d-8262-acc15acc1cfc"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date that is 60 days before the date
estimated by the Secretary on which amounts appropriated for the purposes of
this section for a fiscal year will be exhausted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id885bc027-0953-48b6-9751-9b55551194c2"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate committees of Congress
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the
term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27ba0b77-18ea-441c-9132-944649ff5c28"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida37e80d6-bafa-4ee9-b91a-d731f754b345"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaaba793c-f9ce-441b-8b23-3c36f1eee92b"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the beginning of
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item related to section 2307 the
following new item:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78dad656-e154-4cac-948e-871f860ce7ac" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2307A. Death from service-connected disability:
supplemental benefits for burial and funeral
expenses.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99e432dc-6992-4bd8-9db1-2f72b19e8eda"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 2307A of title 38,
United States Code (as added by this subsection).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8d109a0c-c0db-48c4-a1ff-b001ce180ecd"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on October 1, 2009, and shall apply with respect
to deaths occurring on or after that date.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8e3594e6-682d-492b-942c-474e7994edd9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>502.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental plot allowances</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf930a972-a256-4986-8d3e-506d974d1134"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 23 is amended by inserting after
section 2303 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida3c7b35c-fa8f-45c3-abfd-f5746ef09918" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfacd5e4f-362d-4c65-8b5d-9339274cbc5f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2303A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplemental plot allowance</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9fa52112-3d5c-456c-a539-84f188876020"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idfe9c8a83-d232-4fb4-b1ac-9abd028e7a64"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of funds
specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in advance in an
appropriations Act, whenever the Secretary makes a payment for the burial and
funeral of a veteran under section 2303(a)(1)(A) of this title, or for the
burial of a veteran under paragraph (1) or (2) of section 2303(b) of this
title, the Secretary is also authorized and directed to pay the recipient of
such payment a supplemental payment under this section for the cost of such
burial and funeral or burial, as applicable.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd567786e-85ec-4971-8a84-97e863b065aa" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No supplemental plot allowance payment
shall be made under this subsection if the Secretary has expended all funds
that were specifically provided for purposes of this subsection in an
appropriations Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id761b78b1-4654-4bf9-a9c5-4df1fa880d55"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of the supplemental payment
required by subsection (a) for any death is $445 (as adjusted from time to time
under subsection (c)).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfdfa0a49-de3f-452e-a294-b1c27df39de2"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to deaths that occur in any
fiscal year after fiscal year 2010, the supplemental payment described in
subsection (b) shall be equal to the sum of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idda840c26-5696-45d8-a334-77045d65d513"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the supplemental payment in effect under
subsection (b) for the preceding fiscal year (determined after application of
this subsection), plus</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id80bc3528-5b79-4926-b2e8-a3f1f3a3a027"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the amount described in section
2303(a)(1)(A) of this title and the amount under paragraph (1), multiplied by
the percentage by which—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3857ff1e-261c-4335-9e47-967b880a9cf2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Consumer Price Index (all items, United
States city average) for the 12-month period ending on the June 30 preceding
the beginning of the fiscal year for which the increase is made, exceeds</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6a371de1-f8b8-454b-9708-e761a64f26d0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such Consumer Price Index for the 12-month
period preceding the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id768648cd-5581-48b8-9b22-cc65dfc1c5f9"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Estimates</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idb84e5f1a-fa86-47f5-b777-76e806dbe937"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From time to time, the Secretary shall make
an estimate of—</text>
<subparagraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide109a81b-3936-453b-8659-19b23a1148c9" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of funding that would be
necessary to provide supplemental plot allowance payments under this section to
all eligible recipients for the remainder of the fiscal year in which such an
estimate is made; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d5ae8e1-f797-4161-902c-39c12aa0bc36" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount that Congress would need to
appropriate to provide all eligible recipients with supplemental plot allowance
payments under this section in the next fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb43771cb-c711-44ba-9b5f-2c791606eae5" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the dates described in paragraph (3),
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the
estimates described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddf5394a3-917d-457c-9dbf-6a75d69c0678" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The dates described in this paragraph are
the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id139e986d-310e-4cdd-be84-aba800775532"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">April 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide7bbd40b-cc51-4284-802a-f2ef80348e96"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">July 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcf5c63c6-7d91-4da1-b4d4-b1f78a842a65"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">September 1 of each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88a5481c-7b14-4a45-96df-6e27834c047e"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date that is 60 days before the date
estimated by the Secretary on which amounts appropriated for the purposes of
this section for a fiscal year will be exhausted.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1d32b5bb-a1a7-48d0-81f4-ac288a841305"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate committees of Congress
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the
term <term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd6177e6e-e4a8-42a9-9c3d-f6d6f10210a1"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e33b1de-bb53-4dc5-8bcc-3d4cdae3d1df"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations and the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8983b37c-3c8e-4831-be9b-033b1f32095e"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections at the beginning of
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item related to section 2303 the
following new item:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcec44c46-46c2-46ee-9682-09e6fda4bdd1" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2303A. Supplemental plot
allowance.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90fd7604-91d4-4c79-b946-556088d82ab6"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on October 1, 2009, and shall apply with respect
to deaths occurring on or after that date.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc4a3568b-4171-4fa1-b2d1-c1f252a2a205"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 2303A of title 38,
United States Code (as added by subsection (a)).</text>
</subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other matters</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBD38FBC25BD64FF9852A904DDC723F2B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>601.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Academies review of best
treatments for Gulf War Illness</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6FAA506AD692421AB6F919F177F596FD"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
to conduct a comprehensive review of the best treatments for Gulf War
Illness.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36E3BFCEA2CC442BA793EAF6CA65FA60"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Group of medical
professionals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting
the study required under subsection (a), the Institute of Medicine shall
convene a group of medical professionals who are experienced in treating
individuals diagnosed with Gulf War illness as follows:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id63489D04107844DEB1FDBAD69E4E185F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Members of the Armed Forces who served
during the Persian Gulf War in the Southwest Asia theater of operations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22CBCA001532452097B0553A36C11576"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Members of the Armed Forces who served in
the Post 9/11 Global Operations theaters.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA7E7046C703946DCA9F167D2F6460FFC"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header><text>The contract required
by subsection (a) shall require the Institute of Medicine to submit to the
Secretary and to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the review
required under subsection (a) not later than December 31, 2011. The final
report shall include such recommendations for legislative or administrative
action as the Institute considers appropriate in light of the results of the
review.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38EB1966EC954243AB16ABCFE476F9B8"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall provide the Institute
of Medicine with such funds as are necessary to ensure the timely completion of
the review required under subsection (a).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4726763E6AE24D65881BBC1D5713EC2A"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id852259C81B284AA3849F5E7EA57D44B4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Appropriate committees
of Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>appropriate committees of Congress</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9836FCC5A61D453C8CDC56700889CD03"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the
Senate; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1DC2132918ED4CED8C813CD4C408C9B0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the
House of Representatives.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id528F75A5DBD14F0AA3A34AD7DFF25637"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Gulf War
Illness</header><text>The term <term>Gulf War Illness</term> means a medically
unexplained chronic multisymptom illness, such as chronic fatigue syndrome,
fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome, that is defined by a cluster of
signs or symptoms relating to service in the Persian Gulf War or Post 9/11
Global Operations theaters.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id137A9F116B22453097C75D43B0646070"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Persian Gulf
War</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Persian
Gulf War</term> has the meaning given that term in section 101(33) of title 38,
United States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2ED2B58234DC4CFF8E6EE1412EE969E4"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Post 9/11 Global
Operations theaters</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>Post 9/11 Global Operations theaters</term> means Afghanistan, Iraq, or
any other theater in which the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal is
awarded for service.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id9A577C98EF2E40EEA7203E393B2F59A3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>602.</enum><header>Extension of
National Academy of Sciences reviews and evaluations regarding illness and
service in Persian Gulf War</header>
<subsection id="idA2E0CA072F26443A814F94DF3FDAC665"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Review and evaluation
of toxic drugs and illnesses associated with Persian Gulf War</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1603(j) of the Persian Gulf War
Veterans Act of 1998 (38 U.S.C. 1117 note) is amended by striking
<quote>October 1, 2010</quote> and inserting <quote>October 1,
2015</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id8BEC088146844512B54590B0D19D61C9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Review and evaluation
of available evidence regarding illness and service in Persian Gulf
War</header>
<paragraph id="id696B8CB7E64F4B89BF64F63FA6DBEEE8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 101(j) of the Veterans Programs Enhancement Act
of 1998 (Public Law 105–368; 112 Stat. 3321) is amended by striking <quote>11
years after</quote> and all that follows through <quote>under subsection
(b)</quote> and inserting <quote>on October 1, 2018</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1EB71BC47E0B4CBB824084CF71D63C7E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>Section 1604 of the Persian Gulf War Veterans Act of
1998 (Public Law 105–277; 38 U.S.C. 1117 note) is repealed.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE8C80ABF78B74982A392FA5C6421716F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>603.</enum><header>Extension of
authority for regional office in Republic of the Philippines</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 315(b) is amended by striking
<quote>December 31, 2009</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31,
2011</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="id4856EA51619E458FA1322C940FF526A4"><enum>604.</enum><header>Aggregate amount of
educational assistance available to individuals who receive both survivors' and
dependents educational assistance and other veterans and related educational
assistance</header>
<subsection id="idF7FA1983E9504AEDB738BFF37CE918CD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Aggregate amount
available</header><text>Section 3695 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id30F11373024646509CDF2964920FBF54"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(4), by
striking <quote>35,</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1FCFE476772D4234A620A743FAE256EF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following new subsection:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5E939FB6CFD34398AAFDF5AFF336E94A" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idF908309D7446443B9AA45F83057B1613"><enum>(c)</enum><text>The aggregate period for
which any person may receive assistance under chapter 35 of this title, on the
one hand, and any of the provisions of law referred to in subsection (a), on
the other hand, may not exceed 81 months (or the part-time equivalent
thereof).</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id16BA3E4DE6DB41CD95C2B3148DB80241"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>The
amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on October 1, 2010, and
shall not operate to revive any entitlement to assistance under chapter 35 of
title 38, United States Code, or the provisions of law referred to in section
3695(a) of such title, as in effect on the day before such date, that was
terminated by reason of the operation of section 3695(a) of such title, as so
in effect, before such date.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF68828F5F0044511A1D2CEC4EB30CD53"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Revival of entitlement
reduced by prior utilization of chapter 35 assistance</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6C8FD5E14FA44B18AC0097E727D0D04"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to paragraph (2), in the case of an individual
whose period of entitlement to assistance under a provision of law referred to
in section 3695(a) of title 38, United States Code (other than chapter 35 of
such title), as in effect on September 30, 2010, was reduced under such section
3695(a), as so in effect, by reason of the utilization of entitlement to
assistance under chapter 35 of such title before October 1, 2010, the period of
entitlement to assistance of such individual under such provision shall be
determined without regard to any entitlement so utilized by the individual
under chapter 35 of such title.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDFF85BDE530B466FA178B19E5BF867D6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The
maximum period of entitlement to assistance of an individual under paragraph
(1) may not exceed 81 months.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id94D9250768154DE7B7E1D83851BA0E0D"><enum><added-phrase committee-id="SSVA00" reported-display-style="italic">605.</added-phrase></enum><header>Technical
correction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5503(c) is
amended by striking <quote>veterans'</quote> and inserting
<quote>veteran's</quote>.</text>
</section>
September 2, 2009
Reported with an amendment