An Act to provide statutory authority for the Deputy Administrator of Veterans Affairs to assume the duties of Administrator during the absence or disability of the Administrator, or during a vacancy in that office, and for other purposes
PL 89-361 (H.R.11007), enacted 03/07/1966

53 Stat. 119. 
80 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-361-MAR. 7, 1966 
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(c) The amendments made by this Act shall be applicable with 
respect to estates of decedents subject to the provisions of chapter 3 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939. No interest shall be paid or 
allowed on any refund or credit of any overpayment attributable to 
such amendments. 
^Approved March 7, 1966. 
Public Law 89-360 
AN ACT 
March 7, 1966 
To extend the statutory burial allowance to certain veterans whose deaths occur 
[H. R. iiooe] 
as a result of a service-connected disability. 
Veterans. 
Burial allow-
ance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 902(a) 
of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) Where a veteran dies— 
^2 stat. 1169 
"(1) of a service-connected disability; or 
"(2) who was (A) a veteran of any war; (B) discharged from 
the active military, naval, or air service for a disability incurred 
or aggravated in fine of duty; or (C) in receipt of (or out for the 
receipt of retirement pay would have been entitled to) disability 
compensation; 
the Administrator, in his discretion, having due regard to the cir-
cumstances in each case, may pay a sum not exceeding $260 to such 
person as he prescribes to cover the burial and funeral expenses of the 
deceased veteran and the expense of preparing the bodj and trans-
porting it to the place of burial. For the purpose of this subsection. 
the term 'veteran' includes a person who died during a period deemed 
to be active military, naval, or air service under section 106(c) of this 
title." 
75 Stat. 219. 
Approved March 7, 1966. 
Public Law 89-361 
AN ACT 
March 7, 1966 
To provide statutory authority for the Deputy Administrator of Veterans' 
[H. R. iioo?] 
Affairs to assume the duties of Administrator during the absence or disability 
of the Administrator, or during a vacancy in that office, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section • ^^^^^'^l^^^'^"''' 
210 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding a new eran^s°A°fairt. 
subsection (d) to read as follows: 
"(d) There shall be in the Veterans' Administration a Deputy 
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs who shall be appointed by the 
Administrator. 
The Deputy Administrator shall perform such func-
tions as the Administrator shall designate and, unless the President 
shall designate another officer of the Government, shall be Acting 
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs during the absence or disability 
of the Administrator or in the event of a vacancy in the office of 
Administrator." 
(b) The catchline of such section 210 is amended by adding 
"; Deputy Administrator" at the end thereof. 
(c) The analysis at the head of chapter 3 of such title 38, regard-
ing section 210, is amended by deleting the period at the end thereof 
and inserting the following: "; Deputy Administrator. " 
72 Stat. 1114. 
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[80 STAT. 
SEC. 2. (a) Section 212(a) of such title 38 is amended by inserting 
immediately after the word "delegate", in the first sentence thereof, 
the following: ", or authorize successive redelegation of,". 
(b) Such section 212(a) is further amended by inserting ", redele-
gations," immediately after the word "delegations" in the second 
seiitence thereof. 
Approved March 7, 1966. 
Public Law 89-362 
March 7, 1966 
AN ACT 
[H.R. 11747] 
rj^o amend section 3203, title 38, United States Code, to restrict the conditions 
under which benefits are immediately reduced upon readmission of veterans 
for hospitalization or other institutional care. 
Veterans. 
Hospitalization 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
^''^^t^d States of America in Congress assembled^ That the last sen-
benTfur"""" " tence of section 3203 (a) (1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
72 Stat. 1234. 
j^y deleting the comma immediately after the words "upon a succeed-
ing readmission for treatment or care" and inserting "within six 
months from the date of such departure,". 
78 Stat. 504. 
gj,^. 2. Sectlou 3203(f) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
by deleting the comma immediately after "admitted to hospitaliza-
tion" in the third sentence and inserting "within six months from the 
date of such departure,". 
Applicability. 
gj,^,^ 3 rpj^^ amendments made by this Act shall also apply to 
cases in which pension eligibility is subject to the provisions of section 
9(b) of the Veterans' Pension Act of 1959. 
Approved March 7, 1966. 
73 Stat. 436. 
38USC S21note 
Public Law 89-363 
March 7, 1966 
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[s. 1904] 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to give to the Indians of the Pueblos 
of Acoma, Sandia, Santa Ana, and Zia the beneficial interest in certain 
federally owned lands heretofore set aside for school or ~ administrative 
purposes. 
Indians of cei^ 
tain Pueblos 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That when the fol-
Land^."'"" 
lowing identified lands (other than the mineral interests specifically 
excluded in the identification), w'hich were set aside for school or 
administrative purposes, are no longer needed by the United States 
for the administration of Indian Affairs, the Secretary of the Interior 
is authorized to declare, by publication of a notice in the Federal 
Kegister, that the title of the United States to such lands and im-
provements shall thereafter be held in trust for the Indians of the 
Pueblos of Acoma, Sandia, Santa Ana, and Zia as follows: 
(1) Acomita day school site comprising three and five-tenths 
acres, more or less, to the Indians of the Pueblo of Acoma; 
(2) Sandia school site comprising sixty-three one-hundredths 
of an acre, more or less, to the Indians of the Pueblo of Sandia; 
(3) Santa Ana school site comprising two and eighty-one one-
hundredths acres, more or less, excluding mineral interests therein, 
located within the El Ranchito grant, to the Indians of the Pueblo 
of Santa Ana; and