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PUBLIC LAW B69-JUNE 7, 1956

Public Law 569 June 7. 1956 '• ' ' •

[70 S T A T,

CHAPTER 374

AN ACT To provide medical care for dependents of members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Midfc^afcareAcu' United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Dependents' Medical Care Act". TITLE I Purpose.

SEC. 101. The purpose of this Act is to create and maintain high morale throughout the uniformed services by providing an improved and uniform program of medical care for members of the uniformed services and their dependents. SEC. 102. (a) As used in this Act— ««Uniformed eerv(1) The term "uniformed services" means the Army, the Navy, ices". the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Commissioned Corps of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service. "Member of a uni(2) The term "member of a uniformed service" means a person formed service ". appointed, enlisted, inducted or called, ordered or conscripted in a uniformed service who is serving on active duty or active duty for training pursuant to a call or order that does not specify a period of thirty days or less. "Retired member (3) The term "retired member of a uniformed service" means a o f a unif Q rme d service". member or former member of a uniformed service who is entitled to retired, retirement, or retainer pay or equivalent pay as a result of service in a uniformed service, other than a member or former member 62 Stat. 1087. entitled to retired or retirement pay under title III of the Army and 10 USC 1 0 3 6 1036i and note s. Air Force Vitalization and Retirement Equalization Act of 1948 who 66 Stat. 4 8 1. has served less than eight years of active duty as defined in section 50 USC 901. 101 (b) of the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952. •Dependent' (4) The term "dependent" means any person who bears to a member or retired member of a uniformed service, or to a person who died while a member or retired member of a uniformed service, any of the following relationships— (A) the lawful wife; (B) the unremarried widow; (C) the lawful husband, if he is in fact dependent on the member or retired member for over one-half of his support; (D) the unremarried widower, if he was in fact dependent upon the member or retired member at the time of her death for over one-half of his support because of a mental or physical incapacity; (E) an unmarried legitimate child (including an adopted child or stepchild), if such child has not passed his twenty-first birthday; (F) a parent or parent-in-law, if the said parent or parent-inlaw is, or was at the time of the member's or retired member's death, in fact dependent on the said member or retired member for over one-half of his support and is, or was at the time of the member's or retired member's death, actually residing in the household of the said member or retired member; or (G) an unmarried legitimate child (including an adopted child or stepchild) who (i) has passed his twenty-first birthday, if the child is incapable of self-support because of a mental or physical incapacity that existed prior to his reaching the age of twenty-one and is, or was at the time of the member's or retired

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