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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 585
104TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session SENATE 104-367
VETERANS' COMPENSATION COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT
ACT OF 1996
SEPTEMBER 9, 1996.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SIMPSON, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany 1791]
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to which was referred the
bill (S. 1791) to increase, effective December 1, 1996, the rates of
disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabil-
ities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for
survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon and recommends that the bill do pass.
COMMITTEE BILL
The text of the bill as reported is as follows:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Veterans' Compensation
Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1996.
SEC. 2. INCREASE IN COMPENSATION RATES AND LIMITA-
TIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.-(1) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs
shall, as provided in paragraph (2), increase, effective De-
cember 1, 1996, the rates of and limitations on Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs disability compensation and de-
pendency and indemnity compensation.
(2) The Secretary shall increase each of the rates and
limitations in sections 1114, 1115(1), 1162, 1311, 1313, and
1314 of title 38, United States Code, that were increased
by the amendments made by the Veterans' Compensation
Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1995 (Public Law No.
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