special restorative training. Increases the subsistence rate by approximately 22.7 percent for veterans receiving vocational rehabilitation. (Effective February 1, 1970) Provides new programs of special assistance for educationally disadvantaged veterans. Sets forth the purposes of these new programs as being (1) to encourage and assist veterans who have academic deficiencies to attain a high school education or its equivalent and to qualify for and pursue courses of higher education, (2) to assist eligible veterans to pursue postsecondary education through tutorial assistance where required, and (3) to encourage educational institutions to develop programs which provide special tutorial, remedial, preparatory, or other educational or supplementary assistance to such veterans. Provides a new program to be known as the Predischarge Education Program (PREP). Sets forth the purpose of this program as being to encourage and assist servicemen with more than 180 days of service, in preparing for future education, training, or vocation by providing them with the opportunity to enroll in and pursue a program of education or training prior to their discharge or release from active duty wtih the Armed Forces. Provides an expanded program of outreach services for the purpose of insuring that all veterans, especially those who have been recently discharged or released and who do not have a high school diploma and those who are eligible for readjustment or other benefits and services under laws administered by the Veterans Administration are provided timely and appropriate assistance to aid them in applying for and obtaining such benefits and services. Further provides that the outreach services program is for the purpose of charging the Veterans Administration with the affirmative duty of seeking out eligible veterans and eligible dependents and providing them with such services. Specifically, provides that the VA is to advise each veteran at time of discharge, by letter, of benefits to which he is entitled, and render assistance in making application for such benefits. Authorizes the VA to establish veterans' assistance offices at such places as are deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of this expanded outreach services program, and to work with other Federal, State or local governmental agencies, or national or other organizations in utilizing services available from those agencies or organizations, particularly with the Department of Labor and State employment services, to render assistance in obtaining employment for veterans. Authorizes the Administrator to utilize special telephone service for the purpose of making these outreach services as widely available as possible. Provides that a program of education may include more than one predetermined and identified educational, professional, or vocational objective if all the objectives pursued are generally recognized as being reasonably related to a veteran's single career field. Permits veteran's education and training at the elementary school level. Provides that a veteran's academic high school course, requiring 16 units for a full course, shall be considered a full-time course when a minimum of 4 units per year are required. Allows the Administrator, in the case of veterans enrolled in courses in educational institutions not leading to a standard college degree, to make the initial payment of the educational assistance allowance (not to exceed one full month) upon receipt of a certificate of enrollment. Permits the payment of educational assistance allowance to certain = veterans pursuing courses on a less than half-time basis, or servicemen while on active duty, in an amount computed for the entire quarter, semester, or term during the month immediately following the month in which certification is received from the educational institution that the veteran or serviceman has enrolled in and is pursuing a program at such institution. Eliminates the hour equivalency requirement as prerequisite for flight training: thus would require a private pilot's license before a veteran could pursue flight training. Authorizes flight training when generally recognized as ancillary to the pursuit of some other vocational endeavor. Authorizes the approval of a program of training on-the-job when such training is based upon skills learned through organized and supervised training conducted by a qualified instructor. Reduces the minimum number of college undergraduate semester hours that veterans and dependents will need to qualify for full-time eucational assistance allowance. Accords maximum flexibility to the educational institution concerned in defining a full-time course of study. Permits the counting of certain non-credit courses necessary to correct an educational deficiency toward the minimum number of semester hours required for payment of the educational assistance allowance. Specifically prohibits, as to both eligible veterans and dependents the approval of bartending and personality develoment courses, or sales or sales management courses which do not provide specialized training within a specific vocational field unless certain justification is received. Permits the pursuit of an educational program under the war orphans' and widows' educational assistance program on less than half-time basis. (Effective February 1, 1970) Requires the Administrator to notify the parent or guardian of each eligible child of the educational assistance available to such person under the war orphans assistance program. Provides for computation of educational assistance allowance for an eligible dependent of a veteran pursuing a program of education at an institution in the Republic of the Philippines, at a rate in Philippine pesos equivalent to $0.50 for each dollar. In the case of programs of apprenticeship where the training establishment is a carrier directly engaged in interstate commerce providing training in more than one State, authorizes the Administrator to act as a State approving agency. Modifies the educational benefit nonduplication bar by having it apply only to certain persons receiving training while on active military or Public Health Service duty and Federal emloyees receiving their full salaries while training. Repeals two statutes made obsolete by the revision of the nonduplication bar (Sec. 504, Public Law 90574 and Sec. 506, Public Law 90-575). 58-451-71- -3 84 Stat. 76. Veterans Education and Training Act of 1970. 79 Stat. 576; 82 Stat. 447. C. TEXT OF THE LAW Following is the text of Public Law 91-219. AN Act To amend chapters 31, 34, and 35 of title 38, United States Code. in order to increase the rates of vocational rehabilitation, educational assistance, and special training allowance paid to eligible veterans and persons under such chapters; to amend chapters 34, 35, and 36 of such title to make certain improvements in the educational programs for eligible veterans and dependents; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Veterans Education and Training Amendments Act of 1970". TITLE I-INCREASE IN EDUCATIONAL AND VOCA- SEC. 101. Section 1504 (b) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(b) The subsistence allowance of a veteran-trainee is to be determined in accordance with the following table, and shall be the monthly amount shown in column II, III, or IV (whichever is applicable as determined by the veteran's dependency status) opposite the appropriate type of training as specified in column I: 72 Stat. 1121; 79 Stat. 576, 1154. Flight training. 81 Stat. 185. 84 Stat. 77. 81 Stat. 184. Where any full-time trainee has more than two dependents and is not eligible to receive additional compensation as provided by section 315 or section 335 (whichever is applicable) of this title, the subsistence allowance prescribed in column IV of the foregoing table shall be increased by an additional $6 per month for each dependent in excess of two." SEC. 102. The last sentence of section 1677(b) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out in the last sentence thereof "$130" and inserting in lieu thereof "$175". SEC. 103. (a) The table (prescribing educational assistance allowance rates for eligible veterans pursuing educational programs on halftime or more basis) contained in paragraph (1) of section 1682 (a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: (c) Section 1682 (c) (2) of such title is amended by strik- 82 Stat. 1333. ing out "$130" and inserting in lieu thereof "$175". (c) Section 1682 (c) (2) of such title is amended by striking out "$130" and inserting in lieu thereof "$175”. (d) The table (prescribing educational assistance allowance rates for eligible veterans pursuing a farm cooperative program) contained in section 1682 (d) (2) of such title is amended to read as follows: (e) The table (prescribing educational assistance allowance 81 Stat. 186. rates for eligible veterans pursuing an apprenticeship or other on-job training) contained in section 1683 (b) of such title is amended to read as follows: SEC. 104. (a) Section 1732 (a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(a) (1) The educational assistance allowance on behalf of an eligible person who is pursuing a program of education consisting of institutional courses shall be computed at the rate of (A) Allowance computation. 72 Stat. 1198; 79 Stat. 896. 84 Stat. 78. 72 Stat. 1198; 79 Stat. 896. Special training allowance. "Program of Education." 80 Stat. 13. "Educational institution." Certain courses, disapproval. $175 per month if pursued on a full-time basis, (B) $128 per month if pursued on a three-quarter-time basis, and (C) $81 per month if pursued on a half-time basis. "(2) The educational assistance allowance on behalf of an eligible person pursuing a program of education on less than a half-time basis shall be computed at the rate of (A) the established charges for tuition and fees which the institution requires other individuals enrolled in the same program to pay, or (B) $175 per month for a full-time course, whichever is the lesser." (b) Section 1732 (b) of such title is amended by striking out "$105" and inserting in lieu thereof "$141". (c) Section 1742 (a) of such title is amended to read as follows: "(a) While the eligible person is enrolled in and pursuing a full-time course of special restorative training, the parent or guardian shall be entitled to receive on his behalf a special training allowance computed at the basic rate of $175 per month. If the charges for tuition and feas applicable to any such course are more than $55 per calendar month the basic monthly allowance may be increased by the amount that such charges exceed $55 a month, upon election by the parent or guardian of the eligible person to have such person's period period of entitlement reduced by one day for each $6.80 that the special training allowance paid exceeds the basic monthly allowance." TITLE II-MISCELLANEOUS TC AMENDMENTS VETERANS' AND DEPENDENTS' EDUCATION PROGRAMS SEC. 201. (a) Subsection (b) of section 1652 of title 38, Unite States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence as follows: "Such term also means any curriculum of unit courses or subjects pursued at an educational institution which fulfill requirements for the attainment of more than one predetermined and identified educational, professional, or vocational objective if all the objectives pursued are generally recognized as being reasonably related to a single career field." (b) Subsection (c) of section 1652 of such title is amended to read as follows: "(c) The term 'educational institution' means any public or private elementary school, secondary school, vocational school, correspondnce school, business school, junior college, teachers' college, college normal school, professional school, university, or scientific or technical institution, or other institution furnishing education for adults." SEC. 202. Section 1673 (a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(a) The Administrator shall not approve the enrollment of an eligible veteran in "(1) any bartending course or personality development course; "(2) any sales or sales managemnt course which does not provide specialized training within a specific vocational |