A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to remove the requirement that the twenty years for which a disability rating of total or permanent total disability must be in force for such rating to be preserved must be continuous.

Prohibits the Veterans' Administration from down grading a disability rating of total or permanent total which has been made for compensation, pension or insurance purposes if such rating has been made for 20 years, regardless of whether or not such 20 years were continuous.