Benefits Fairness for Filipino Veterans Act of 2013

Benefits Fairness for Filipino Veterans Act of 2013 - Provides that, with respect to eligibility for benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of Filipino veterans who are lawful U.S. residents, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not determine that such a person is not an individual residing in the United States solely because the person is outside the United States for any period of less than one year.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3207 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3207

    To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the method of 
 determining whether Filipino veterans are United States residents for 
    purposes of eligibility for receipt of the full-dollar rate of 
 compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans 
                                Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2013

Mr. Gutierrez (for himself, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. Duckworth, 
   Mr. Enyart, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Honda, Mr. Sablan, Mr. Vargas, Mr. 
 Lowenthal, and Mrs. Bustos) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the method of 
 determining whether Filipino veterans are United States residents for 
    purposes of eligibility for receipt of the full-dollar rate of 
 compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans 
                                Affairs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Benefits Fairness for Filipino 
Veterans Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN FILIPINO VETERANS FOR 
              FULL-DOLLAR RATE OF BENEFITS UNDER THE LAWS ADMINISTERED 
              BY THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Section 107(c) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new sentence: ``The Secretary may not 
determine that a person is not an individual residing in the United 
States for purposes of this subsection solely because the person is 
outside the United States for any period of time less than one year.''.
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