An Act to extend to 30 days the time for filing petitions for removal of civil actions from State to Federal courts
PL 89-215 (H.R.3989), enacted 09/29/1965

79 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-215-SEPT. 29, 1965 
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on account of the death of such veteran and (B) any death compensa-
tion or dependency and indemnity compensation received on account 
of the death of such veteran by the person or persons who receive such 
death gratuity. 
(2) In any case where two or more persons are eligible for a death 
gratuity under this section on account of the death of the same veteran 
but one or more of such persons do not waive future death compensa-
tion or dependency and indemnity compensation payable under title 
38, the Administrator shall pay his or their share of such death 
gratuity to the person or persons waiving such compensation. How-
ever, the death compensation or dependency and indemnity compen-
sation payable to any other person shall not be increased solely as the 
result of an election and waiver under this section. 
(3) The right of any person to payment of a death gratuity under 
this section shall be conditioned upon his being alive to receive such 
payment. No person shall have a vested right to any such payment 
and any payment not made during the person's lifetime shall be paid 
to the person or persons within the permitted class next entitled to 
priority, as provided in subsection (b). 
(d) Any terms used in this section which are defined in section 101 
or 102(b) of title 38, United States Code, shall, for the purposes of 
Definitions. 
this section, have the meanings given to them by such section 101 or ^'V^sVaT^iioe. 
102(b), except that (1) the term "veteran", as used in this section, 
includes a person who dies while in the active military, naval, or air 
service and (2) the term "child" shall not be limited with respect to 
age or marital status. 
(e) Appropriations made to the Veterans' Administration for 
"Compensation and Pensions" shall be available for the payment of 
death gratuities under this section. 
Approved September 29, 1965. 
Public Law 89-215 
AN A C T 
September 29, 1965 
To extend to thirty days the time for tiling petitions for removal of civil actions 
[H. R. 3989] 
from State to Federal courts. 
State courts. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemJ)led^ That subsection (b) 
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of section 1446 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as removal petitions. 
f o l l o w s : 
63 Stat. 10 1. 
"(b) The petitison for removal of a civil action or proceeding 
shall be filed within thirty days after the receipt by the defendant, 
through service or otherwise, of a copy of the initial pleading setting 
forth the claim for relief upon which such action or proceeding is 
based, or within thirty days after the service of summons upon the 
defendant if such initial pleading has then been filed in court and 
is not required to be served on the defendant, whichever period is 
shorter. 
"If the case Stated by the initial pleading is not removable, a peti-
tion for removal may be filed within thirty days after receipt by the 
defendant, through service or otherwise, of a copy of an amended 
pleading, motion, order or other paper from whach it may first be 
ascertained that the case is one which is or has become removable." 
Approved September 29, 1965.