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PUBLIC LAW 89-138-AUG. 26, 1965

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Public Law 89-138 AN ACT To amend ehapter 31 of title 88, United States Code, to extend to seriously disabled veterans the same liberalization of time limits for pursuing vocational rehabilitation training as was authorized for blinded veterans by I'ublic Law 87-r»91. and to clarify the language of the law relating to the limiting of iJeriods for pursuing such training.

August 26, 1965 [H. R. 208]

Be H enacted by the Senate and House of Re2)resentatives of the Vmted States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 31 of e r Dni s a b l e d veta s. title 38, f nited States Code, is amended by adding after section 1502 "vocational rehathereof the followina: new section 1503: biutation. =

"§ 1503. Periods of eligibility " (a) Unless a longer period of eligibility is authorized pursuant to subsection (b) or (c) of this section, vocational rehabilitation may not be afforded to a veteran after nine years following his discharge or release; except vocational rehabilitation may be afforded to any I)erson until— "(1) August 20, 1963, if such person was discharged or released before August 20, 1954, or "(2) October 15, 1971, if such person is eligible for vocational rehabilitation by reason of a disability arising from service before October 15, 1962, but either after World "War II, and before the Korean conflict, or after the Korean conflict. " (b) Where a veteran is prevented from entering, or having entered, from completing vocational rehabilitation training within the period of eligibility prescribed in subsection (a) of this section because— "(1) he had not timely attained, retained, or regained medical feasibility for training because of disability; '"(2) he had not timely met the requirement of a discharge or release under conditions other than dishonorable, but the nature of such discharge or release was later changed by appropriate authority; or "(3) he had not timely established the existence of a compensable service-connected disability, such training may be afforded him during a period not to exceed four years beyond the period of eligibility otherwise applicable to him. "(c) A veteran who is found to be in need of vocational rehabilitation to overcome the handicap of blindness, or other serious disability, I'esulting from a service-connected disability which aft'ords basic eligibility for vocational rehabilitation under section 1502 of this title majl>e afforded such vocational rehabilitation after the termination date otherwise applicable to him, but not beyond ten years after such termination date, or June 30, 1975, whichever date is the later, if— " (1) he had not previously been rehabilitated (that is, rendered employable) as the result of training furnished under this chapter, or "(2) such serious disability (whether blindness or otherwise) has developed from, or as a result of, the worsening of his serviceconnected disability since he was declared rehabilitated to the extent that it precludes his performing the duties of the occupation for which he was previously trained under this chapter." SKG. 2. Chapter 31 of title 38, t^nited States Code, is further amended by—

72 Stat. 1170.

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