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Prohibition.

Short title.

PUBLIC LAW 89-214-SEPT. 29, 1965

[79 STAT.

of appropriations made iii this Act for the support of the Army Reserve Components to the extent necessary to implement such a realinement or reorganization; and the provisions in this Act establishing strengths for the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard shall cease to be effective. SEC. 640. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for the expenses of the Special Training Enlistment Program (STEP). SEC. 641. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1966"'. Approved September 29, 1965.

Public Law 89-214 September 29, 1965 [S. 2127]

Armed Forces. Indemnity Insurance. 72 Stat. 1148. 38 USC 701 e( seq.

AN ACT To amend title 38, United States Code, in order to provide special indemnity insurance for members of the Armed Forces serving in combat zones, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) chapter 19 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by redesignating "Subchapter III—General" thereof as "Subchapter IV—General" and by inserting immediately after subchapter II thereof the following new subchapter III: "Subchapter III—Servicemen's Group Life Insurance «§765. Definitions "For the purpose of this subchapter— "(1) The term 'active duty' means full-time duty as a commissioned or warrant officer, or as an enlisted member of a uniformed service under a call or order to duty that does not specify a period of thirty days or less. "(2) The term 'member' means a person on active duty in the uniformed services in a commissioned, warrant, or enlisted rank or grade. "(3) The term 'uniformed services' means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, and Environmental Science Services Administration. "§ 766. Eligible insurance companies " (a) The Administrator is authorized, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U.S.C. 5), to purchase from one or more life insurance companies a policy or policies of group life insurance to provide the benefits specified in this subchapter. Each such life insurance company must (1) be licensed to issue life insurance in each of the fifty States of the United States and in the District of Columbia, and (2) as of the most recent December 31 for which information is available to the Administrator, have in effect at least 1 per centum of the total amount of group life insurance which all life insurance companies have in effect in the United States. " (b) The life insurance company or companies issuing such policy or policies shall establish an administrative office at a place and under a name designated by the Administrator. "(c) The Administrator shall arrange with the life insurance company or companies issuing any policy or policies under this subchapter to reinsure, under conditions approved by him, portions of the total

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