38 U.S.C. § 5303
Certain bars to benefits
United States · Title 38 — VETERANS’ BENEFITS · Status: effective
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- 38 U.S.C. § 5303, Certain bars to benefits, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/473445
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This section shall not apply to the following:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
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 The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An Act to deny entitlement to veterans' benefits to certain persons who would otherwise become so entitled solely by virtue of the administrative upgrading under temporarily revised standards of other than honorable discharges from service during the Vietnam era; to require case-by-case review under uniform, historically consistent, generally applicable standards and procedures prior to the award of veterans' benefits to persons administratively discharged under other than honorable conditions from active military, naval, or air service; and for other purposes.House: 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 Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Veterans Affairs Health-Care Personnel Act of 1991House: 399–0Senate: no recorded tally
- Department of Veterans Affairs Codification ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Jeff Miller and Richard Blumenthal Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2016House: 419–0Senate: no recorded tally
- William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021