Discussion-Continued Title II-Health Care-Continued Part C-Health-Care Personnel-Continued Overtime Rates of Pay for Certain Nurses Pay Enhancements for Certain Health-Care Personnel. Elimination of Reduction in Retired or Retainer Pay Labor-Management Relations....... Leave Transfers and Banks Temporary Appointments of Health-Care Personnel Dependent Care Assistance Program. Health Professional Scholarships.. Assistance to Health-Personnel Educational Institutions... Payment of Physicians' and Dentists' Special Pay.... Pilot Program of Pay and Personnel Management Practices. Title III-Education and Employment: Cost-of-Living Adjustment in Rehabilitation Subsistence Allowances Cost-of-Living Adjustment in Educational Assistance Allowances for Provision for Permanent Program of Independent Living Services Work-Study Program for Survivors and Dependents. Page 194 194 195 197 197 199 200 201 202 207 208 209 211 212 213 216 219 222 223 224 225 227 231 232 233 Pilot Program to Furnish Employment and Training Information and 236 Alternate Secondary School Credentials for Montgomery GI Bill Eli- 238 Bar to Receipt of Chapter 32 and 106 Benefits for Same Period of 239 Accepting School Certification for Renewal of Educational Benefits 239 Removal of Attendance Requirement Distinctions Between Degree 240 Funding for State Approval Agencies for Training Curriculum Devel- 241 Proof of Satisfactory Pursuit of a Program of Education 242 245 Clock-Hour Measurement of Certain Unit Courses or Subjects Credit- 246 Department of Veterans Affairs Approval of Certain Courses.. 247 249 Effective Date of Adjustments of Educational Benefits.. 252 254 Title IV-Home Loan 255 Establishment of Home Loan Guaranty Fund; Government Contribu- 259 Annual Submission of Information on the Loan Guaranty Revolving Discussion-Continued Title V-Memorial Affairs: Page Reimbursement for Cost of Cemetery Headstone or Marker. 283 283 New Arizona National Cemetery. 284 Title VI-Minority Affairs: Assignment of Minority Issues to an Assistant Secretary of Veterans 285 Reestablishment of the Advisory Committee on Native-American 289 Study of Home Loans to Native-American Veterans 290 Title VII-Miscellaneous: Security Services... 291 Expansion of Multiyear Procurement Authority to Include Nonmedi- 293 Notice of Procedural Rights and Other Information 294 Use of Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration Additional Views of Senators Frank H. Murkowski and Alan K. Simpson. 334 480 491 Additional Views of Senators Frank H. Murkowski, Alan K. Simpson, and Changes in Existing Law Made by S. 13 as Reported. 494 497 SEPTEMBER 13 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 6), 1989.-Ordered to be printed Mr. CRANSTON, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, REPORT together with ADDITIONAL VIEWS [To accompany S. 13] The Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to which was referred the bill (S. 13) to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation for veterans and survivors, to increase the allowances paid to disabled veterans pursuing rehabilitation programs and to the dependents and survivors of certain disabled veterans pursuing programs of education, and to improve various programs of benefits and health-care services for veterans; and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a committee substitute, and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass. COMMITTEE AMENDMENT The amendment is as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause as follows: [SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. [This Act may be cited as the "Veterans Benefits and Health Care Act of 1989". [SEC. 2. REFERENCE TO TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE. [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. [TITLE I-COMPENSATION AND OTHER BENEFITS [PART A-COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENTS [SEC. 101. DISABILITY COMPENSATION AND DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION. [(a) IN GENERAL.-(1) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall, as provided in paragraph (2), increase, effective December 1, 1989, the rates of and limitations on Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation. [(2)(A) In the case of each of the rates and limitations in sections 314, 315(1), 362, 411, 413, and 414 of title 38, United States Code, that were increased by amendments made by title XI of the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 (division B of Public Law 100-687), the Secretary shall further increase such rates and limitations, as in effect on November 30, 1989, by the same percentage that benefit amounts payable under title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) are increased effective December 1, 1989, as a result of a determination under section 215(i) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)). [(B) In the computation of increased rates and limitations pursuant to subparagraph (A), amounts of $0.50 or more shall be rounded to the next higher dollar amount and amounts of less than $0.50 shall be rounded to the next lower dollar amount. [(b) SPECIAL RULE.-The Secretary may adjust administratively, consistent with the increases made under subsection (a), the rates of disability compensation payable to persons within the purview of section 10 of Public Law 85-857 who are not in receipt of compensation payable pursuant to chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code. [(c) PUBLICATIon Requirement.—At the same time as the matters specified in section 215(i)(2)(D) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)(2)(D)) are required to be published by reason of a determination made under section 215(i) of such Act during fiscal year 1990, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register the rates and limitations being increased under this section and the rates and limitations as so increased. [SEC. 102. REHABILITATION SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCES FOR VETERANS WITH SERVICE-CON NECTED DISABILITIES. [(a) RATE INCREASES.-The table in section 1508(b) is amended to read as follows: |