An Act to give the consent of Congress to the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont to become parties to title II of the Compact on Taxation of Motor Fuels consumed by Interstate Buses and the Agreement relating to Bus Taxation Proration and Reciprocity
PL 89-312 (H.R.10369), enacted 11/01/1965

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PUBLIC LAW 89-312-NOV. 1, 1965 
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(b) The analysis of chapter 73 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 
•'4116. Defense of certain malpractice and negligence suits." 
(c) The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the 
Effective date, 
first day of the first calendar month which begins more than one hun-
dred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act, but, in 
the case of an act or omission which occurred before such effective 
date, such amendments shall apply only if no suit or civil action has 
been commenced before such effective date with respect to such act 
or omission. 
SEC. 7. (a) Subsection (c) of section 5033 and paragraph (3) of 
Nursing home 
section 5035(b) of title 38, United States Code, are hereby repealed; ''^Repeals. 
and paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 5035 (b) of such title are hereby 
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redesignated as paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively. 
(b) Section 5034(1) of such title is amended by striking out "one-
half bed" and inserting in lieu thereof "one and one-half beds". 
SEC. 8. (a) Section 5001(a) of title 38, United States Code, is 78^2^^jat.^i^251; 
amended by redesignating paragraph (2) thereof as paragraph (3) 
and by inserting immediately after paragraph (1) thereof the fol-
lowing: 
"(2) The Administrator, subject to the approval of the President, 
is authorized to establish and operate not less than one hundred and 
twenty-five thousand hospital beds in facilities over which the Admin-
istrator has direct and exclusive jurisdiction for the care and treat-
ment of eligible veterans who are tuberculosis, neuropsychiatric, 
medical, and surgical cases." 
(b) Paragraph (3) of such section (as redesignated by subsection 
(a) of this section) is amended by adding at the end thereof the fol-
lowing new sentence: "The nursing beds authorized by this paragraph 
shall be in addition to tlie hospital beds provided for in paragraph (2) 
of this subsection." 
SEC. 9. The amendments made by the first section and sections 2, 3, Effective date. 
and 4 of this Act shall take effect on the first day of the second calendar 
month following the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved October 31, 1965, 7:29 p.m. 
Public Law 89-312 
A N A C T 
November ]., 1965 
To give the consent of Congress to the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and 
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Vermont to become parties to title II of the Compact on Taxation of Motor 
Fuels Consumed by Interstate Buses and the Agreement relating to Bus 
Taxation Proration and Reciprocity. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent 
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of Congress is given to the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and compacf.''^ '°" 
Vermont to become parties to title I I of the Compact on Taxation of 
Motor Fuels Consumed by Interstate Buses and to the Agreement 
relating to Bus Taxation Proration and Reciprocity as consented to 
by the Congress in the Act of April 14, 1965 (79 Stat. 60). 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly 
reserved. 
Approved November 1, 1965.