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(1) provide all personnel of the uniformed services with an overall average increase in regular compensation which equates to that provided General Schedule employees, and (2) carry the same effective date as that applying to the compensation adjustments provided General Schedule employees. (c) For the purposes of this section, "regular compensation" means „J^f„^n"|f^,°"" basic pay, quarters and subsistence allowances (either in cash or in pensation. ""'"' '"" kind), and the tax advantage on those allowances. SEC. 9. Chapter 7 of title 37, United States Code, is amended— 76 Stat. 469. (1) by inserting the following new section: in connection with convalescent leave " (a) Under uniform regulations prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, a member of a uniformed service is entitled to travel and transportation allowances for travel from his place of medical treatment in the continental United States to a place selected by him and approved by the Secretary concerned, and return, when the Secretary" concerned determines that the member is traveling in connection w4th authorized leave for convalescence from illness or injury incurred while the member was eligible for the receipt of hostile fire pay under section 310 of this title. 7? Stat. 216; " (b) The allowances prescribed under this section may not be at ^^ ^'^*' ^'*^' rates more than the rates authorized under section 404(d)(1) of this title. Authorized travel under this section is performed in a duty ^^ ^*^*- '*^^status." (2) By inserting the following new item in the analysis: "411a. Travel and transportation allowances: travel performed in connection with convalescent leave." Approved December 16, 1967.
 * '§411a. Travel and transportation allowances: travel performed

Public Law 90-208 AN ACT

December 18, 1967

To amend the Act incorporating the Disabled American Veterans so as to provide for an annual aUdit of their accounts.

[H. R. 2152]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 9 of Disabled American the Act of June 17, 1932, as amended (36 U.S.C. 90i), is amended by Annu"l*audit. (1) inserting " (a) " immediately after "SEC. 9." and (2) adding at the se Stat. eeo. end thereof the following: " (b)(1) The said corporation shall as soon as practicable after the trone^°Gener*^r'"''" close of each of its fiscal years make and transmit to the Comptroller General a report of its proceedings for the preceding fiscal year, including a full, complete, and itemized report of receipts and expenditures of whatever kind, which report shall be duly audited by the Comptroller General. "(2) The said corporation shall annually reimburse the Comptroller General for auditing its accounts, and the sums so paid shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts." SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall be effective with Effective date. respect to each fiscal year of the Disabled American Veterans beginning after the date of enactment of this Act. Approved December 18, 1967. 85-622 0-68—44

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