42 U.S.C. § 253b
Former Lighthouse Service employees; medical service eligibility
United States · Title 42 — THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE · Status: effective
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- 42 U.S.C. § 253b, Former Lighthouse Service employees; medical service eligibility, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/475236
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Subject to regulations of the President, lightkeepers, assistant lightkeepers, and officers and crews of vessels of the former Lighthouse Service, including any such persons who subsequent to June 30, 1939, were involuntarily assigned to other civilian duty in the Coast Guard, who were entitled to medical relief at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service prior to July 1, 1944, and who retired under the provisions of section 763 of title 33, shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization at hospitals and other stations of the Public Health Service.
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.
- Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Medical Libraries Act of 1974House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally