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 117 STAT. 2652

PUBLIC LAW 108–183—DEC. 16, 2003

Sec. 309. Outstationing of Transition Assistance Program personnel. Sec. 401. Sec. 402. Sec. 403. Sec. 404. Sec. 405. Sec. 406.

TITLE IV—HOUSING BENEFITS AND RELATED MATTERS Authorization to provide adapted housing assistance to certain disabled members of the Armed Forces who remain on active duty. Increase in amounts for certain adaptive benefits for disabled veterans. Permanent authority for housing loans for members of the Selected Reserve. Reinstatement of minimum requirements for sale of vendee loans. Adjustment to home loan fees. One-year extension of procedures on liquidation sales of defaulted home loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

TITLE V—BURIAL BENEFITS Sec. 501. Burial plot allowance. Sec. 502. Eligibility of surviving spouses who remarry for burial in national cemeteries. Sec. 503. Permanent authority for State cemetery grants program. TITLE VI—EXPOSURE TO HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES Sec. 601. Radiation Dose Reconstruction Program of Department of Defense. Sec. 602. Study on disposition of Air Force Health Study. Sec. 603. Funding of Medical Follow-Up Agency of Institute of Medicine of National Academy of Sciences for epidemiological research on members of the Armed Forces and veterans. Sec. 701. Sec. 702. Sec. 703. Sec. 704. Sec. 705. Sec. 706. Sec. 707. Sec. 708.

TITLE VII—OTHER MATTERS Time limitations on receipt of claim information pursuant to requests of Department of Veterans Affairs. Clarification of applicability of prohibition on assignment of veterans benefits to agreements requiring payment of future receipt of benefits. Six-year extension of Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans. Temporary authority for performance of medical disabilities examinations by contract physicians. Forfeiture of benefits for subversive activities. Two-year extension of round-down requirement for compensation cost-ofliving adjustments. Codification of requirement for expeditious treatment of cases on remand. Technical and clerical amendments.

SEC. 2. REFERENCES TO TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE.

Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of title 38, United States Code.

TITLE I—SURVIVOR BENEFITS SEC. 101. RETENTION OF CERTAIN VETERANS SURVIVOR BENEFITS FOR SURVIVING SPOUSES REMARRYING AFTER AGE 57.

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EXCEPTION TO TERMINATION OF BENEFITS UPON REMARRIAGE.—Section 103(d)(2)(B) is amended by striking ‘‘The remarriage after age 55’’ and inserting ‘‘The remarriage after age 57 of the surviving spouse of a veteran shall not bar the furnishing of benefits specified in paragraph (5) to such person as the surviving spouse of the veteran. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the remarriage after age 55’’. (b) COORDINATION OF BENEFITS.—Section 1311 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ‘‘(e) In the case of an individual who is eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation under this section by reason of section 103(d)(2)(B) of this title who is also eligible for benefits under another provision of law by reason of such individual’s status as

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