AII POW-MIA Legislation

POW-MIA Legislation 98th Congress 1983-1984

H.R.5167: A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1985 for the Armed Forces for procurement, for research, development, test, and evaluation, for operation and maintenance, and for working capital funds, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces and for civilian employees of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Price(by req.) .- LATEST ACTION: 10/19/84 Public Law 98-525.

S.J.RES.246: A joint resolution strongly urging the President to secure a full accounting of Americans captured or missing-in-action in Southeast Asia, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Exon .

S.2723: An original bill to authorize appropriations for the military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe personnel levels for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1985, to authorize certain construction at military installations for such fiscal year, to authorize appropriations for the Department of Energy for national security programs for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Tower .- LATEST ACTION: 06/26/84 Text of Title II, as amended, inserted in H.R. 5604 as passed Senate.

H.R.613: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish new educational assistance programs for veterans and for members of the Armed Forces. Sponsor: Rep Hammerschmidt .

H.R.1400: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish new educational assistance programs for veterans and for members of the Armed Forces. Sponsor: Rep Montgomery .- LATEST ACTION: 05/16/83 Reported to House from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs with amendment, H. Rept. 98-185.

H.R.1504: -- Private Bill A bill for the relief of Kenneth G. Schacht. Sponsor: Rep Holt .

H.R.1944: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish new educational assistance programs for veterans and for members of the Armed Forces. Sponsor: Rep Edgar .

H.R.3937: A bill to direct the President to provide for the award of the Purple Heart to prisoners of war held during World War I, World War II, and the Korean conflict under the same criteria applicable to prisoners of war held during the Vietnam era. Sponsor: Rep Moorhead, C.

H.R.5579: A bill to authorize appropriations for procurement, for research, development, test, and evaluation, and for operation and maintenance for the military functions of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1984, to prescribe personnel strengths for that fiscal year for the Armed Forces and for civilian employees of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Dellums .

H.R.6009: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve veterans' benefits for former prisoners of wars. Sponsor: Rep Applegate(by req.) .

S.578: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for adult day health care services for veterans, to authorize the Veterans' Administration to administer a community residential care program, to establish a presumption of service-connection for former prisoners of war suffering from dysthymic disorder and to revise and clarify eligibility for reimbursement of expenses of travel for Veterans' Administration health care. Sponsor: Sen Simpson .- LATEST ACTION: 06/28/83 Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 2920 passed in lieu.

S.580: A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the Prisoner of War Recognition Medal. Sponsor: Sen Simpson .

S.691: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a new Veterans' Educational Assistance Program and a Veterans' Supplemental Educational Assistance Program, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Armstrong .

S.826: A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the Prisoner of War Recognition Medal. Sponsor: Sen Simpson .

S.1388: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans and to increase the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children of veterans. Sponsor: Sen Simpson(by req.) .- LATEST ACTION: 03/02/84 Public Law 98-223.

S.1747: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish two new programs of educational assistance for veterans of peace-time service, to close the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance program to new participants, and to repeal the December 31, 1989, termination date of the Vietnam-era GI Bill, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Armstrong .




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