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 PUBLIC LAW 96-151—DEC. 20, 1979

93 STAT. 1095

vacation or holiday period) which is not the result of such child's own willful misconduct and which results in such child's inability to continue or resume such child's chosen program of education at an approved educational institution shall remain eligible for benefits under this section until the end of the six-month period beginning on the date the disability is removed, the end of the two-year period beginning on the date of the onset of the disability, or the twentythird birthday of the child, whichever occurs first.". (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect with respect tofiscalyear 1980 only to such extent and for such amounts as may be specifically provided for such purpose in appropriation Acts.

Effective date. 38 USC 613 note.

EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 206. Except as otherwise provided in section 20503), the 38 USC ill note. amendments made by this title shall take effect on January 1, 1980. TITLE III—VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL PERSONNEL AMENDMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS MEDICAL PERSONNEL STAFFING LEVELS

SEC. 301. (a) Section 5010(a) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(4)(A) With respect to each law making appropriations for the Veterans' Administration, there shall be provided to the Veterans' Administration the funded personnel ceiling defined in subparagraph (D) of this paragraph and the funds appropriated therefor. "(B) In order to carry out the provisions of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, with respect to each such law (i) provide to the Veterans' Administration for the fiscal year concerned such funded personnel ceiling and the funds necessary to achieve such ceiling, and (ii) submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the United States certification that the Director has so provided such ceiling. Not later than the thirtieth day after the enactment of such a law or, in the event of the enactment of such a law more than thirty days prior to the fiscal year for which such law makes such appropriations, not later than the tenth day of suchfiscalyear, the certification required in the first sentence of this subparagraph shall be submitted, together with a report containing complete information on the personnel ceiling that the Director has provided to the Veterans' Administration for the employees described in subparagraph (D) of this paragraph. "(C) Not later than the forty-fifth day after the enactment of each such law, the Comptroller General shall submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report stating the Comptroller General's opinion as to whether the Director of the Office of Management and Budget has complied with the requirements of such subparagraph in providing to the Veterans' Administration such funded personnel ceiling. "(D) For the purposes of this paragraph, the term 'funded personnel ceiling' means, with respect to any fiscal year, the authorization by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to employ (under the appropriation accounts for medical care, medical and prosthetic research, and medical administration and miscellaneous operating expenses) not less than the number of employees for the

38 USC 5010.

eertification to congressional committees and eomptroller General.

Report to congressional committees.

"Funded personnel ceiling."

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