Veterans' Insurance Reform Act of 1996

Pub. L. 104–275

Also known as: Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act of 1996

US Codex doesn’t hold the enacted text of this law — the public-law corpus runs from the 113th Congress (2013) onward. What it changed in the U.S. Code, reconstructed from the credit notes, is listed below.

75 sections of the Code credited to this law, found between Public Law 104-98 and Public Law 104-333.

• 10 U.S.C. § 16131 — Educational assistance program: establishment; amount
• 36 U.S.C. § 125 — Erection of war memorials
• 36 U.S.C. § 138d — Accounting procedures relating to receipt and expenditure of contributions
• 38 U.S.C. § 101 — Definitions
• 38 U.S.C. § 317 — Center for Minority Veterans
• 38 U.S.C. § 318 — Center for Women Veterans
• 38 U.S.C. § 542 — Advisory Committee on Women Veterans
• 38 U.S.C. § 544 — Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans
• 38 U.S.C. § 1116 — Presumptions of service connection for diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents
• 38 U.S.C. § 1315 — Dependency and indemnity compensation to parents
• 38 U.S.C. § 1710 — Eligibility for hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care
• 38 U.S.C. § 1965 — Definitions
• 38 U.S.C. § 1967 — Persons insured; amount
• 38 U.S.C. § 1968 — Duration and termination of coverage; conversion
• 38 U.S.C. § 1969 — Deductions; payment; investment; expenses
• 38 U.S.C. § 1970 — Beneficiaries; payment of insurance
• 38 U.S.C. § 1971 — Basic tables of premiums; readjustment of rates
• 38 U.S.C. § 1973 — Forfeiture
• 38 U.S.C. § 1974 — Advisory Council on Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance
• 38 U.S.C. § 1977 — Veterans’ Group Life Insurance
• 38 U.S.C. § 2303 — Death in Department facility; plot allowance
• 38 U.S.C. § 2306 — Headstones, markers, and burial receptacles
• 38 U.S.C. § 2402 — Persons eligible for interment in national cemeteries
• 38 U.S.C. § 3002 — Definitions
• 38 U.S.C. § 3013 — Duration of basic educational assistance
• 38 U.S.C. § 3015 — Amount of basic educational assistance
• 38 U.S.C. § 3017 — Death benefit
• 38 U.S.C. § 3018C — Opportunity for certain VEAP participants to enroll
• 38 U.S.C. § 3032 — Limitations on educational assistance for certain individuals
• 38 U.S.C. § 3035 — Allocation of administration and of program costs
• 38 U.S.C. § 3101 — Definitions
• 38 U.S.C. § 3102 — Basic entitlement
• 38 U.S.C. § 3103 — Periods of eligibility
• 38 U.S.C. § 3104 — Scope of services and assistance
• 38 U.S.C. § 3105 — Duration of rehabilitation programs
• 38 U.S.C. § 3106 — Initial and extended evaluations; determinations regarding serious employment handicap
• 38 U.S.C. § 3107 — Individualized vocational rehabilitation plan
• 38 U.S.C. § 3108 — Allowances
• 38 U.S.C. § 3109 — Entitlement to independent living services and assistance
• 38 U.S.C. § 3117 — Employment assistance
• 38 U.S.C. § 3118 — Personnel training, development, and qualifications
• 38 U.S.C. § 3120 — Program of independent living services and assistance
• 38 U.S.C. § 3224 — Death of participant
• 38 U.S.C. § 3231 — Entitlement; loan eligibility
• 38 U.S.C. § 3232 — Duration; limitations
• 38 U.S.C. § 3452 — Definitions
• 38 U.S.C. § 3482 — Computation of educational assistance allowances
• 38 U.S.C. § 3523 — Disapproval of enrollment in certain courses
• 38 U.S.C. § 3532 — Computation of educational assistance allowance
• 38 U.S.C. § 3675 — Approval of accredited courses
• 38 U.S.C. § 3680A — Disapproval of enrollment in certain courses
• 38 U.S.C. § 3720 — Powers of Secretary
• 38 U.S.C. § 3729 — Loan fee
• 38 U.S.C. § 3762 — Direct housing loans to Native American veterans
• 38 U.S.C. § 4102A — Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’ Employment and Training; Regional Administrators
• 38 U.S.C. § 4103 — Directors and Assistant Directors for Veterans’ Employment and Training
• 38 U.S.C. § 4301 — Purposes; sense of Congress
• 38 U.S.C. § 4303 — Definitions
• 38 U.S.C. § 4311 — Discrimination against persons who serve in the uniformed services and acts of reprisal prohibited
• 38 U.S.C. § 4312 — Reemployment rights of persons who serve in the uniformed services
• 38 U.S.C. § 4313 — Reemployment positions
• 38 U.S.C. § 4316 — Rights, benefits, and obligations of persons absent from employment for service in a uniformed service
• 38 U.S.C. § 4317 — Health plans
• 38 U.S.C. § 4318 — Employee pension benefit plans
• 38 U.S.C. § 4322 — Enforcement of employment or reemployment rights
• 38 U.S.C. § 4323 — Enforcement of rights with respect to a State or private employer
• 38 U.S.C. § 4324 — Enforcement of rights with respect to Federal executive agencies
• 38 U.S.C. § 4325 — Enforcement of rights with respect to certain Federal agencies
• 38 U.S.C. § 4326 — Conduct of investigation; subpoenas
• 38 U.S.C. § 5121 — Payment of certain accrued benefits upon death of a beneficiary
• 38 U.S.C. § 5310 — Payment of benefits for month of death
• 38 U.S.C. § 5313A — Limitation on payment of clothing allowance to incarcerated veterans
• 38 U.S.C. § 5902 — Recognition of representatives of organizations
• 38 U.S.C. § 7104 — Jurisdiction of the Board
• 42 U.S.C. § 11448 — Homeless veterans’ reintegration projects