Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/962

 95 STAT. 936

Report summary. 38 USC 214.

PUBLIC LAW 97-37—AUG. 14, 1981 Congress with any comments concerning the report that the Administrator considers appropriate. The Committee may also submit to the Administrator such other reports and recommendations as the Committee considers appropriate. The Administrator shall submit with each annual report submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 214 of this title a summary of all reports and recommendations of the Committee submitted to the Administrator since the previous annual report of the Administrator submitted to the Congress pursuant to such section.". (b) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 220 the following new item: "221. Advisory eommittee on Former Prisoners of War.".

SEC. 3. (a) Section 101 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "Former prisoner "(32) The term 'former prisoner of war' means a person who, while of war." serving in the active military, naval or air service, was forcibly detained or interned in line of duty— "(A) by an enemy government or its agents, or a hostile force, during a period of war; or "(B) by a foreign government or its agents, or a hostile force, during a period other than a period of war in which such person was held under circumstances which the Administrator finds to have been comparable to the circumstances under which persons have generally been forcibly detained or interned by enemy governments during periods of war.". (b) Clause (7) of section 612(b) is amended to read as follows: 38 USC 612. "(7) from which a veteran who is a former prisoner of war and who was detained or interned for a period of not less than six months is suffering; or". SEC. 4. (a) Section 312 is amended— 38 USC 312. (1) by striking out subsection (b); and (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b) and amending such subsection to read as follows: "(b) For the purposes of section 310 of this title and subject to the provisions of section 313 of this title, in the case of a veteran who is a former prisoner of war and who was detained or interned for not less than thirty days, the disease of— "(1) avitaminosis, "(2) beriberi (including beriberi heart disease), "(3) chronic dysentery, "(4) helminthiasis, "(5) malnutrition (including optic atrophy associated with malnutrition), "(6) pellagra, "(7) any other nutritional deficiency, "(8) psychosis, or "(9) any of the anxiety states, which became manifest to a degree of 10 per centum or more after active military, naval, or air service shall be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by such service, notwithstanding that there is no record of such disease during the period of service.". Effective date. (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on 38 USC 312 note. October 1, 1981. 38 USC 610. SEC. 5. (a) Section 610(a) is amended— (1) by striking out "and" at the end of clause (3); (2) by redesignating clause (4) as clause (5); and (3) by inserting after clause (3) the following new clause: 38 USC 101.

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