An Act to define the terms ""widow,"" ""widower,"" ""child,"" and ""parent"" for servicemens group life insurance purposes
PL 92-185 (H.R.9097), enacted 12/15/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92-185-DEC. 15, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
CHAPTEE I X 
CLAIMS AND JUDGMENTS 
For payment of claims settled and determined by departments and 
agencies in accord with law and judgments rendered against the 
United States by the LTnited States Court of Claims and United 
States district courts, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 
92-45, and House Document Numbered 92-164, Ninety-second Con-
gress, $21,569,856, together with such amounts as may be necessary to 
pay interest (as and when specified in such judgments or provided by 
law) and such additional sums due to increases in rates of exchange 
as may be necessary to pay claims in foreign currency: Provided, That 
no judgment herein appropriated for shall be paid until it shall 
become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the 
parties to appeal or otherwise: Provided further, That, unless other-
Avise specifically required by law or by the judgment, payment of inter-
est wherever appropriated for herein shall not continue for more than 
thirty days after the date of approval of the Act. 
CHAPTEE X 
GENEEAL PEOVISIONS 
SEC. 901. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 902. The funds provided in the Department of justice Appro-
]:)riation Act, 1972, for Salaries and Expenses, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, may be used, in addition to those uses authorized there-
under, for the exchange of identification records with officials of fed-
erally chartered or insured banking institutions to promote or 
maintain the security of those institutions, and, if authorized by State 
statute and approved by the Attorney General, to officials of State 
and local governments for purposes of emplo^'ment and licensing, any 
such exchange to be made only for the official use of any such official 
and subject to the same restriction with respect to dissemination as 
that provided for under the aforementioned Act. 
Approved December 15, 1971. 
Public Law 92485 
December 15, 1971 
[H, R, 9097] 
Servicemen's 
group life insur-
ancea 
Beneficiaries, 
definition. 
84 Stat. 326, 
AN ACT 
To define the terms "widow"', "widower", "child", and "parent" for servicemen's 
group life insurance purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hou^e of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 765 of 
title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding the following 
definitions thereto: 
"(7) The terms Svidow' or 'widower' means a person who is the 
lawful spouse of the insured member at the time of his death. 
"(8) The term 'child* means a legitimate child, a legally adopted 
child, an illegitimate child as to the mother, or an illegitimate child 
as to the alleged father, only if (a) he acknowledged the child in writ-
ing signed by him; or (b) he has been judicially ordered to contribute 
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to the child's support; or (c) he has been, before his death, judicially 
decreed to be the father of such child; or (d) proof of paternity is 
established by a certified copy of the public record of birth or church 
record of baptism showing that the insured was the informant and 
was named as father of the child; or (e) proof of paternity is estab-
lished from service department or other public records, such as school 
or welfare agencies, which show that with his knowledge the insured 
was named as the father of the child. 
''(9) The term 'parent' means a father of a legitimate child, mother 
of a legitimate child, father through adoption, mother through adop-
tion, mother of an illegitimate child, and father of an illegitimate 
child but only if (a) he acknowledged paternity of the child m writ-
ing signed by him before the child's death; or (b) he has been judicially 
ordered to contribute to the child's supj^ort; or (c) he has been judi-
cially decreed to be the father of such childj or (d) proof of paternity 
is established by a certified copy of the public record of birth or church 
record of baptism showing that the claimant was the informant and 
was named as father of the child; or (e) proof of paternity is estab-
lished from service department or other public records, such as school 
or welfare agencies, which show that with his knowledge the claimant 
was named as father of the child. No person who abandoned or willfully 
failed to support a child during his minority, or consented to his adop-
tion may be recognized as a parent for the purpose of this subchapter. 
However, the immediately preceding sentence shall not be applied so 
as to require duplicate payments in any case in which insurance benefits 
have been paid prior to receipt in thie administrative office established 
under subsection 766 (b) of this title of sufficient evidence to clearly 
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establish that the person so paid could not qualify as a parent solely 
by reason of such sentence." 
SEC. 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply only to Servicemen's 
Elective date. 
Group Life Insurance in effect on the life of an insured member who 
dies on or after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved December 15, 1971. 
Public Law 92-186 
AN ACT 
D e c e m b e r 15, 1971 
To declare that certain public lands are held in trust by the United States for the 
[S. 952] 
Summit Lake Paiute Tribe, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That all of the right, 
Indians. 
title, and interest of the United States in and to lots 1, 2, 3, 4, north- PaiuT^Tribe/ 
west quarter northeast quarter, south half northeast quarter, section 7, Ne^ 
and the north half, section 8, township 41 north, range 26 east, Mount 
Diablo meridian, Nevada, containing six hundred acres, more or less, 
together with all improvements thereon, are hereby declared to be held 
by the United States in trust for the Summit Lake Paiute Tribe and 
shall hereafter constitute a part of the Summit Lake Indian Reserva-
tion, Nevada, subject to the reservation of a right of access across said 
lands to the northeast quarter northeast quarter, section 7, township 41 
north, range 26 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Nevada, for the benefit 
of the owner thereof. 
SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Summit 
Lake Paiute Tribe is hereby authorized to negotiate a purchase of the 
L a n d s in trust. 
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