38 U.S.C. § 3701
Definitions
United States · Title 38 — VETERANS’ BENEFITS · Status: effective
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For the purposes of housing loans under this chapter—
The term “veteran” also includes, for purposes of home loans, the surviving spouse of a veteran who died and who was in receipt of or entitled to receive (or but for the receipt of retired or retirement pay was entitled to receive) compensation at the time of death for a service-connected disability rated totally disabling if—
The term “veteran” also includes, for purposes of home loans, an individual who performed full-time National Guard duty (as that term is defined in section 101 of title 10) for a period—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Veterans Housing Amendments Act of 1976House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Health Care, Training, and Small Business Loan Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to amend titles 10, 14, 37, and 38, United States Code, to codify recent law and to improve the Code.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Amendments of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Veterans Affairs Codification ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans Home Loan Program Amendments of 1992House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act of 1994House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996
- Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012House: 380–0Senate: no recorded tally
- William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
- Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally