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pay until separation or release from such duty an amount determined by the Administrator (which shall be the same for all such members) as the share of the cost attributable to insuring such member under such policy, less any costs traceable to the extra hazard of such duty in the uniformed service. "(2) During any fiscal year, or portion thereof, that a member is on active duty or active duty for training under a call or order to such duty that specifies a period of less than thirty-one days, or is authorized or required to perform inactive duty training scheduled in advance by competent authority, and is insured under a policy of insurance purchased by the Administrator, under section 766 of this title, the Secretary concerned shall collect from him (by deduction from pay or otherwise) an amount determined by the Administrator (which shall be the same for all such members) as the share of the cost attributable to insuring such member under such policy, less any costs traceable to the extra hazard of such duty in the uniformed service. "(3) Any amount not deducted from the basic or other pay of a member insured under this subchapter, or collected from him by the Secretary concerned, if not otherwise paid, shall be deducted from the proceeds of any insurance thereafter payable. The initial monthly amount under subsection (1) hereof, or fiscal year amount under subsection (2) hereof, determined by the Administrator to be charged under this section for insurance under this subchapter may be continued from year to year, except that the Administrator may redetermine such monthly or fiscal year amounts from time to time in accordance with experience. No refunds will be made to any member of any amount properly deducted from his basic or other pay, or collected from him by the Secretary concerned, to cover the insurance granted under this subchapter. "(b) For each month for which any member is so insured, there shall be contributed from the appropriation made for active duty pay of the uniformed service concerned an amount determined by the Administrator and certified to the Secretary concerned to be the cost of such insurance which is traceable to the extra hazard of duty in the uniformed services. Effective January 1, 1970, such cost shall be determined by the Administrator on the basis of the excess mortality incurred by members and former members of the uniformed services insured under this subchapter above what their mortality would have been under peacetime conditions as such mortality is determined by the Administrator using such methods and data as he shall determine to be reasonable and practicable. The Administrator is authorized to make such adjustments regarding contributions from pay appropriations as may be indicated from actual experience." (2) by inserting after "pay of members" in the first sentence of subsection (d)(1) the following: ", or collected from them by the Secretary concerned,". SEC. 5. Section 770 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by

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adding the following new subsections thereto: "(e) Until and unless otherwise changed, a beneficiary designation and settlement option filed by a member with his uniformed service under prior provisions of law will be effective with respect to the increased insurance authorized under this amendatory Act and the insurance shall be settled in the same proportionate amount as the portion designated for such beneficiary or beneficiaries bore to the amount of insurance heretofore in effect.

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