Title: United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act
This bill deems as active military service for Department of Veterans Affairs purposes any service as a member of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps between July 1, 1943, and December 31, 1948 (qualified service).
The Department of Defense shall issue an honorable discharge within one year to each person whose qualified service warrants one.
Retroactive benefits shall not be paid to persons as a result of enactment of this bill.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1168 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1168

To provide that service of the members of the organization known as the 
United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II constituted active 
military service for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of 
                 Veterans Affairs, and other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2017

  Mrs. Lowey (for herself, Mr. Lance, Ms. McCollum, Ms. DeLauro, Mrs. 
Dingell, Mr. Engel, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. 
  McGovern, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Keating, and Mr. Polis) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
  Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that service of the members of the organization known as the 
United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II constituted active 
military service for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of 
                 Veterans Affairs, and other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``United States Cadet Nurse Corps 
Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. SERVICE DEEMED TO BE ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--For purposes of section 401(a)(1)(A) of the GI 
Bill Improvement Act of 1977 (38 U.S.C. 106 note), the Secretary of 
Defense is deemed to have determined that qualified service of a person 
constituted active military service.
    (b) Determination of Discharge Status.--The Secretary of Defense 
shall issue an honorable discharge under section 401(a)(1)(B) of the GI 
Bill Improvement Act of 1977 to each person whose qualified service 
warrants an honorable discharge. Such discharge shall be issued before 
the end of the one-year period beginning on the date of the enactment 
of this Act.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF RETROACTIVE BENEFITS.

    No benefits may be paid to any person as a result of the enactment 
of this Act for any period before the date of the enactment of this 
Act.

SEC. 4. DEFINITION.

    In this Act, the term ``qualified service'' means service of a 
person as a member of the organization known as the United States Cadet 
Nurse Corps during the period beginning on July 1, 1943, and ending on 
December 31, 1948.
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