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PUBLIC LAW 550-JULY 16, 1952

Public Law 550

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AN ACT To provide vocational readjustment and to restore lost educational opportunities to certain persons who served in the Armed Forces on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to such date as shall be fixed by the President or the Congress, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled,

July 16, 1952 [H. R. 7656]

of the

TITLE I—SHORT TITLE AND STATEMENT OF POLICY SHORT TITLE

SEC. 101. This Act may be cited as the "Veterans' Eeadjustment Assistance Act of 1952". STATEMENT OF P O U C Y

SEC. 102. The Congress of the United States hereby declares that the veterans' education and training program created by this Act is for the purpose of providing vocational readjustment and restoring lost educational opportunities to those service men and women whose educational or vocational ambitions have been interrupted or impeded by reason of active service in the Armed Forces during a period of national emergency and for the purpose of aiding such persons in attaining the educational and training status which they might normally have aspired to and obtained had they not served their country; and that the home, farm, and business-loan benefits, the unemployment compensation benefits, the mustering out payments, and the employment assistance provided for by this Act are for the purpose of assisting in the readjustment of such persons from military to civilian life. TITLE II — E D U C A T I O N A L AND VOCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PART I—DEFINITIONS

SEC. 201. For the purposes of this title (1) the term "basic service period" means the period beginning on June 27, 1950, and ending on such date as shall be determined by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress; (2) the term "eligible veteran" means any person who is not in the active service in the Armed Forces and who— (A) has served in the active service in the Armed Forces at any time during the basic service period, (B) has been discharged or released from such active service under conditions other than dishonorable, and (C) has served in the active service in the Armed Forces for ninety days or more (exclusive of any period he was assigned by the Armed Forces to a civilian institution for a course of education or training which was substantially the same as established courses offered to civilians, or as a cadet or midshipman at one of the service academies), or has been discharged or released from active service by reason of an actual service-incurred injury or disability; (3) the term "program of education or training" means any single unit course or subject, any curriculum, or any combination of unit courses or subjects, which is generally accepted as necessary to fulfill

Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952.

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