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PUBLIC LAW 93-289-lVlAY 24, 1974

(2) Clauses (2) and (3) of subsection (a) are each amended bydeleting "ninety days" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "one hundred and twenty days". (3) Subsection (a) is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(4) with respect to a member of the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service Avho meets the qualifications set forth in section 765(5)(B) of this title, one hundred and twenty days after separation or release from such assignment— " (A) unless on the date of such separation or release the member is totally disabled, under criteria established by the Administrator, in which event the insurance shall cease one year after the date of separation or release from such assignment, or on the date the insured ceases to be totally disabled, whichever is the earlier date, but in no event prior to the expiration of one hundred and twenty days after separation or release from such assignment; or " (B) unless on the date of such separation or release the member has completed at least twenty years of satisfactory service creditable for retirement purposes under chapter 67 of title 10 and would upon application be eligible for assignment to or is assigned to the Retired Reserve, in which event the insurance, unless converted to an individual policy under terms and conditions set forth in section 777(e) of this title, shall, upon timely payment of premiums under terms prescribed by the Administrator directly to the administrative office established under section 766(b) of this title, continue in force until receipt of the first increment of retirement pay by the member or the member's sixty-first birthday, whichever occurs earlier. "(5) with respect to a member of the Retired Reserve who meets the qualifications of section 765(5)(C) of this title, and who was assigned to the Retired Reserve prior to the date insurance under this amendment is placed in effect for members of the Retired Reserve, at such time as the member receives the first increment of retirement pay, or the member's sixty-first birthday, whichever occurs earlier, subject to the timely payment of the initial and subsequent premiums, under terms prescribed by the Administrator, directly to the administrative office established under section 766(b) of this title." (4) Subsection (b) is amended to read as follows: "(b) Each policy purchased under this subchapter shall contain a provision, in terms approved by the Administrator, that, except as hereinafter provided. Servicemen's Group Life Insurance which is continued in force after expiration of the period of duty or travel under section 767(b) or 768(a) of this title, effective the day after the date such insurance would cease, shall be automatically converted to Veterans' Group Life Insurance subject to (1) the timely payment of the initial premium under terms prescribed by the Administrator, and (2) the terms and conditions set forth in section 777 of this title. Such automatic conversion shall be effective only in the case of an otherwise eligible member or former member who is separated or released from a period of active duty or active dut^ for training or inactive duty training on or after the date on which the Veterans' Group Life Insurance program (provided for under section 777 of this title) becomes effective. Servicemen's Group Life Insurance continued in force under section 768(a)(4)(B) or (5) of this title shall

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Ready R e Ante,

p, 165.

10 USC 1331.

Post,

p. 169.

38 USC 766.

Retired R e serves. Ante, p 165.

eonversion.

Ante,

p. 166.

Post,

p. 169.

Supra.

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