103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 1927

SENATE AMENDMENT

TO HOUSE

AMENDMENTS
In the Senate of the United States,

October 6 (legislative day, September 12), 1994.

Resolved, That the Senate agree to the amendments of

the House of Representatives to the bill (S. 1927) entitled

‘‘An Act to increase the rates of compensation for veterans

with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain

disabled veterans’’ with the following

SENATE AMENDMENT TO

HOUSE AMENDMENTS:

In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the

House amendment to the text of the bill, insert:

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans’ Compensation

3 Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1994’’.

4 SEC. 2. INCREASE IN RATES OF DISABILITY COMPENSATION

5 AND DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COM6 PENSATION.

7 (a) RATE ADJUSTMENT.—The Secretary of Veterans

8 Affairs shall, effective on December 1, 1994, increase the dol9 lar amounts in effect for the payment of disability com10 pensation and dependency and indemnity compensation by

11 the Secretary, as specified in subsection (b)
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1 (b) AMOUNTS TO BE INCREASED.—The dollar

2 amounts to be increased pursuant to subsection (a) are the

3 following:

4 (1) COMPENSATION.—Each of the dollar amounts

5 in effect under section 1114 of title 38, United States

6 Code.

7 (2) ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR DEPEND8 ENTS.—Each of the dollar amounts in effect under

9 section 1115(1) of such title.

10 (3) CLOTHING ALLOWANCE.—The dollar amount

11 in effect under section 1162 of such title.

12 (4) NEW DIC RATES.—The dollar amounts in ef13 fect under paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1311(a)

14 of such title.

15 (5) OLD DIC RATES.—Each of the dollar

16 amounts in effect under section 1311(a)(3) of such

17 title.

18 (6) ADDITIONAL DIC FOR DISABILITY.—The dol19 lar amounts in effect under sections 1311(c) and

20 1311(d) of such title.

21 (7) DIC FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN.—The dol22 lar amounts in effect under sections 1313(a) and

23 1314 of such title.

24 (c) DETERMINATION OF PERCENTAGE INCREASE.—(1)

25 The increase under subsection (a) shall be made in the dol-
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1 lar amounts specified in subsection (b) as in effect on No2 vember 30, 1994. Each such amount shall be increased by

3 the same percentage as the percentage by which benefit

4 amounts payable under title II of the Social Security Act

5 (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) are increased effective December 1,

6 1994, as a result of a determination under section 215(i)

7 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)).

8 (2) In the computation of increased dollar amounts

9 pursuant to paragraph (1), any amount which as so com10 puted is not an even multiple of $1 shall be rounded to

11 the next lower whole dollar amount.

12 (d) SPECIAL RULE.—The Secretary may adjust ad13 ministratively, consistent with the increases made under

14 subsection (a), the rates of disability compensation payable

15 to persons within the purview of section 10 of Public Law

16 85–857 (72 Stat. 1263) who are not in receipt of compensa17 tion payable pursuant to chapter 11 of title 38, United

18 States Code.

19 SEC. 3. PUBLICATION OF ADJUSTED RATES.

20 At the same time as the matters specified in section

21 215(i)(2)(D) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.

22 415(i)(2)(D)) are required to be published by reason of a

23 determination made under section 215(i) of such Act during

24 fiscal year 1994, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall pub-
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1 lish in the Federal Register the amounts specified in section

2 2(b), as increased pursuant to section 2.

Attest:

Secretary.