An Act to amend the act incorporating the Disabled American Veterans so as to provide for an annual audit of their accounts
PL 90-208 (H.R.2152), enacted 12/18/1967

pensation. 
76 Stat. 469. 
81 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-208-DEC. 18, 1967 
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(1) provide all personnel of the uniformed services with an 
overall average increase in regular compensation which equates 
to that provided General Schedule employees, and 
(2) carry the same effective date as that applying to the com-
pensation adjustments provided General Schedule employees. 
(c) For the purposes of this section, "regular compensation" means „J^f„^n"|f^,''°"" 
basic pay, quarters and subsistence allowances (either in cash or in "''"'"' '"" 
kind), and the tax advantage on those allowances. 
SEC. 9. Chapter 7 of title 37, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by inserting the following new section: 
*'§411a. Travel and transportation allowances: travel performed 
in connection with convalescent leave 
"(a) Under uniform regulations prescribed by the Secretaries con-
cerned, a member of a uniformed service is entitled to travel and 
transportation allowances for travel from his place of medical treat-
ment in the continental United States to a place selected by him and 
approved by the Secretary concerned, and return, when the Secretarj" 
concerned determines that the member is traveling in connection w4th 
authorized leave for convalescence from illness or injury incurred 
while the member was eligible for the receipt of hostile fire pay under 
section 310 of this title. 
7? stat. 216; 
"(b) The allowances prescribed under this section may not be at ^^ ^'^*' ^'*^' 
rates more than the rates authorized under section 404(d) (1) of this 
title. Authorized travel under this section is performed in a duty 
^^ ^*^*- '*^^-
status." 
(2) By inserting the following new item in the analysis : 
"411a. Travel and transportation allowances: travel performed in connection 
witli convalescent leave." 
Approved December 16, 1967. 
Public Law 90-208 
AN ACT 
December 18, 1967 
To amend the Act incorporating the Disabled American Veterans so as to pro- 
[H. R. 2152] 
vide for an annual aUdit of their accounts. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Reyresentatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^^sembled^ That section 9 of 
Disabled American 
the Act of June 17, 1932, as amendfed (36 U.S.C. 90i), is amended by ^Annu"l*audit. 
(1) inserting " ( a ) " immediately after "SEC. 9." and (2) adding at the 
se stat. eeo. 
end thereof the following: 
"(b) (1) The said corporation shall as soon as practicable after the trone^°Gener*^r'"''" 
close of each of its fiscal years make and transmit to the Comptroller 
General a report of its proceedings for the preceding fiscal year, 
including a full, complete, and itemized report of receipts and expen-
ditures of whatever kind, which report shall be duly audited by the 
Comptroller General. 
"(2) The said corporation shall annually reimburse the Comptroller 
General for auditing its accounts, and the sums so paid shall be cov-
ered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts." 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall be effective with 
Effective date. 
respect to each fiscal year of the Disabled American Veterans begin-
ning after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved December 18, 1967. 
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