PUBLIC LAW 105-206-^JULY 22, 1998 112 STAT. 865 SEC. 9013. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS REGARDING SUBTITLE A OF TITLE VIIL (a) AMENDMENT TO OFFSETTING ADJUSTMENT FOR DISCRE- TIONARY SPENDING LIMIT. —Section 8101(b) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century is amended— Ante, p. 488. (1) in paragraph (1) by striking "$25,173,000,000" and inserting "$25,144,000,000"; and (2) in paragraph (2) by striking "$26,045,000,000" and inserting "$26,009,000,000 ". (b) AMENDMENTS FOR HIGHWAY CATEGORY.— Section 8101 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century is amended by adding at the end the following: "(f) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.— Section 250(c)(4)(C) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as amended by subsection (c) of this Act) is amended— "(1) by striking 'Century and' and inserting 'Century or*; "(2) by striking 'as amended by this section,' and inserting 'as amended by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century,'; and "(3) by adding at the end the following new flush sentence: 'Such term also refers to the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority account (69-1128-0-1-401) only for fiscal year 1999 only for appropriations provided pursuant to authorizations contained in section 14 of Public Law 96-184 and Public Law 101-551. '. ". (c) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.— Section 8102 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century is amended by inserting Ante, p. 492. before the period at the end the following: "or from section 1102 of this Act". SEC. 9014. CORRECTIONS TO VETERANS SUBTITLE. (a) TOBACCO-RELATED ILLNESSES IN VETERANS. —Section 8202 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century is amended Ante, p. 492. to read as follows (and the amendments made by that section as originally enacted shall be treated for all purposes as not having been made): " SEC. 8202. TREATMENT OF TOBACCO-RELATED ILLNESSES OF VETERANS. "(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1102 the following new section:
- § 1103. Special provisions relating to claims based upon
effects of tobacco products '(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a veteran's disability or death shall not be considered to have resulted from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in the line of duty in the active military, naval, or air service for purposes of this title on the basis that it resulted from injury or disease attributable to the use of tobacco products by the veteran during the veteran's service. '(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed as precluding the establishment of service connection for disability or death from a disease or injury which is otherwise shown to have been incurred or aggravated in active military, naval, or air service or which became manifest to the requisite degree of disability during any
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