95th Congress > House > Vote 500
Sponsor: ROBERTS, Herbert Ray (D-TX)
Description: TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 8698, THE BILL DENYING AUTOMATIC ENTITLEMENT TO VETERANS' BENEFITS TO THOSE MEN WITH UPGRADED DISCHARGES PURSUANT TO THE 1977 ADMINISTRATIVE PARDON OF VIETNAM DRAFT EVADERS.
Bill summary: Denies veterans' benefits retroactively to any individual whose entitlement is based on an upgraded discharge under specified revised standards not made applicable to all persons administratively discharged or released from active military service under less than honorable conditions. Requires the board of review to make a separate determination whether an upgraded individual would have been awarded an upgraded discharge under discharge review standards made applicable to all persons
(...show more)
administratively discharged under less than honorable conditions. Entitles to veterans' benefits any individual whose upgraded discharge would have been awarded under previous unrevised review standards.
Denies, as of the date of enactment, benefits for any disability incurred or aggravated during a period of service from which a veteran was discharged by reason of a bad conduct discharge.
States that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should promulgate any new or revised regulations providing any unique or special advantage to veterans who have received upgraded discharges under revised standards, or otherwise make any special distinction between such veterans and other veterans.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should take all necessary action to provide that less than honorable discharges and releases of former members of the Armed Forces with respect to any period of war be reviewed under specified revised standards, if they have not been so reviewed previously.
Click to hide full description.
Bill titles: A bill to deny entitlement to veteran's benefits to certain persons who would otherwise become so entitled solely by virtue of the administrative upgrading under temporarily revised standards of less than honorable discharges for service during the Vietnam era.
Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 123-140, p. 9263;
Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov
