An Act to amend Veterans Regulation No. 7 (a) to clarify the entitlement of veterans to outpatient dental care
PL 84-83 (H.R.5100), enacted 06/16/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 84-JUNE 16, 1955 
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Public Law 83 
CHAPTER 152 
AN ACT 
June 16, 1955 
To amend Veterans IJesulation Numbered 7 (a) to clarify the entitlement of 
[H. R. Sioo] 
veterans to outpatient dental care. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) Veterans 
Regulation Numbered 7 (a) is hereby amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following: 
"II. Outpatient dental services and treatment, and related dental 
appliances, shall be furnished under this regulation only for any dental 
condition or disability— 
"(1) which is service connected and compensable in degree; 
"(2) which is service connected and is shown to have been in 
existence at time of discharge or release from active service, but 
only if application for treatment is made within one year after 
discharge or release, or by December 31, 1954, whichever last 
occurs; 
" (3) which is a service-connected dental condition or disability 
due to combat wounds or other service trauma or of a former 
prisoner of war; 
" (4) which is associated w^ith and is aggravating disability from 
some other disease or injury which was incurred in or aggravated 
by active service; or 
"(5) of a veteran of the Spanish-xVmerican War (including the 
Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection) : Provided, 
That benefits afforded under clause (2) shall be on a onetime 
completion basis, unless the services rendered on a onetime basis 
are found unacceptable within the limitations of good professional 
standards, in which event such additional services may be afforded 
as are required to complete professionally acceptable treatment." 
(b) The amendment made by this section shall not be construed to 
affect the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to fur-
nish dental services to veteran trainees under part VII of Veterans 
Regulation Numbered 1 (a), or under Public Law 16, Seventy-eighth 
Congress, as amended and extended. 
SEC. 2. The provisos in the paragraph "Outpatient care" under the 
heading "VP:TERANS ADMINISTRATION" in the Independent Offices Appro-
priation Act, 1955, are hereby repealed. 
Approved June 16, 1955. 
Veterans. 
Dental care« 
38 u s e ch. 12A, 
5 7 Stat. 43. 
38 use ch. 12 A. 
68 Stat. 290. 
Public Law 84 
CHAPTER 153 
AN ACT 
To amend the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, so as to authorize loans 
for farm housing to be guaranteed or insured under the same terms and 
conditions as apply to residential housing. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 501 of 
the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (38 U. S. C , sec. 694a), is 
hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsection: 
"(c) Notwithstanding section 502 of this title, but subject to para-
graphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a) of this section, any loan 
made to a veteran under this title may be guaranteed if the proceeds 
thereof will be used for any of the following purposes: 
June 16, 1955 
[H. R. 5106] 
Veterans. 
Fesm housing. 
59 Stat. 628; 68 
Stat. 643. 
38 use 694b. 
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