An Act to provide for equitable adjustment of the insurance status of certain members of the Armed Forces
PL 86-494 (H.R.9785), enacted 06/08/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 8 6-493-JUNE 8, 1960 
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"(d) If a veteran has satisfactorily served on active duty for a 
period of six months or more in a rank higher than that specified 
in subsection (a) or (b) and was so serving m such rank within one 
hundred and twenty days before death in the active military, naval, or 
air service or before last discharge or release from active duty under 
conditions other than dishonorable, his basic pay shall be determined 
by using the appropriate rank specified in those subsections or by 
substituting such higher rank for the rank specified in those subsec-
tions, whichever will result in a greater amount. 
The determination 
as to whether an individual has served satisfactorily for the required 
period in a higher rank shall be made by the Secretary of the Depart-
ment in which such higher rank was held." 
Approved June 8, 1960. 
June 8, 1960 
[H. R. 8238] 
Public Law 86-493 
AN ACT 
To authorize and direct the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to 
make a study and report to Congress, from the standpoint of the public health, 
of the discharge of substances into the atmosphere from the exhausts of motor 
vehicles. 
E x h a u s t s 
of 
motor vehicles. 
Study. 
Report to 
gress. 
C o n -
Definition. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Surgeon 
General of the Public Health Service (hereinafter referred to as the 
"Surgeon General'') shall conduct a thorough study for the purpose 
of determining, with respect to the various substances discharged from 
the exhausts of motor vehicles, the amounts and kinds of such sub-
stances which, from the standpoint of human health, it is safe for 
motor vehicles to discharge into the atmosphere under the various 
conditions under which such vehicles may operate. 
SEC. 2. As soon as practicable, but not later than two years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Surgeon General shall sub-
mit to (^ongress a report on the results of the study conducted pur-
suant to the first section of this Act, together with such recommenda-
tions, if any, based upon the findings made in such study, as he may 
deem to be necessary for the protection of the public health. 
SEC. 3. As used in this Act the term "motor vehicles" means vehicles 
propelled by mechanical power and used for transporting passengers 
or property on a highway. 
Approved June 8, 1960. 
June 8, 1960 
IH. R. 9785] 
Public Law 86-494 
AN ACT 
To provide for equitable adjustment of the insurance status of certain members 
of the Armed Forces. 
N a v y 
aviation 
students. 
Insurance bene-
fits. 
49 Stat. 156. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That any seaman 
second class who died as the result of an aviation accident incurred in 
line of duty in the active service of the Navy after October 7, 1940, 
and before August 4, 1942, while undergoing flight training leading 
to appointment as an aviation cadet under the Act of April 15, 1935, 
shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted national 
service life insurance in an amount which together with any other 
United States Government life insurance or national service life in-
surance in force at the time of death shall aggregate $10,000. 
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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 4 9 5 - J U N E 8, 1960 
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SEC. 2. Notwithstanding the repeal of the National Service Life 
fj^at! loos. 
Insurance Act of 1940, claims for insurance granted by virtue of the 
foregoing section shall be adjudicated under the provisions of that 
Act, subject to the following conditions: 
conditions. 
(a) The insurance shall be payable effective from the date of enact-
ment of this Act in equal monthly installments for one hundred and 
twenty months certain with such payments continuing during the re-
maining lifetime of the first beneficiary to the following beneficiaries 
and in the order named— 
(1) to the widow or widower of the insured, if living, and while 
unremarried; 
(2) if no widow or widower entitled thereto, to the child or 
children of the insured, if living, in equal shares; 
(3) if no widow or widower entitled thereto, or child, to the 
dependent mother or father of the insured, if living, in equal 
shares. 
(b) Anv installment of such insurance not paid to a beneficiary dur-
ing his liietime shall be paid to the beneficiary or beneficiaries within 
the permitted class next entitled to priority and no payment of such 
insurance shall be made to the estate of any deceased person. 
(c) No application for insurance payment under this Act shall be 
valid unless filed in the Veterans' Administration within two years 
from the effective date of this Act and the relationship and dependency 
of the applicant where required as a basis for such claim, shall be 
proved as of the date of death of the insured by evidence satisfactory 
to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Persons shown by evi-
dence satisfactory to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to have 
been mentally or legally incompetent at the time the right to apply 
for death benefits expires, may make such application at any time 
within one year after the removal of such disability. 
(d) The cost of the life insurance benefits granted under this Act 
shall be borne by the United States and the benefit payments there-
under shall be made from the national service life insurance 
appropriation. 
Approved June 8, 1960. 
Public Law 86-495 ' 
AN ACT 
Jxine 8, 1960 
To amend section 3104 of title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the furnishing 
[H. R. 9788] 
of benefits under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration to any 
child on account of the death of more than one parent in the same parental 
line. 
Be it enacted &y the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress a^sembled^ That section 3104 veterans, 
(b) (2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: ml*^^*^"'' """'" 
" (2) Benefits other than insurance under laws administered by the 
Veterans' Administration may not be paid or furnished to or on 
account of any child by reason of the death of more than one parent in 
the same parental line; however, the child may elect one or more times 
to receive benefits by reason of the death of any one of such parents." 
SEO. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall apply only to cases 
where the death of a parent occurs after the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
Approved June 8, 1960. 
72 Stat. 1230.