PUBLIC LAW 107-14—JUNE 5, 2001 115 STAT. 25 Public Law 107-14 107th Congress An Act To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for CHAMPVA, to provide for family coverage and retroactive expansion of the increase in maximum benefits under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, to make technical amendments, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE. — This Act may be cited as the "Veterans' Survivor Benefits Improvements Act of 2001". (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. References to title 38, United States Code. Sec. 3. Eligibility for benefits under CHAMPVA for veterans' survivors who are eligible for hospital insxirance benefits under the medicare program. Sec. 4. Family coverage under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance. Sec. 5. Retroactive applicability of increase in maximum SGLI benefit for members dying in performance of duty on or after October 1, 2000. Sec. 6. Expansion of outreach efforts to eligible dependents. Sec. 7. Technical amendments to the Montgomery GI Bill statute. Sec. 8. Miscellaneous technical amendments. SEC. 2. REFERENCES TO TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE. Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of title 38, United States Code. SEC. 3. ELIGIBILITY FOR BENEFITS UNDER CHAMPVA FOR VETERANS' SURVIVORS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR HOSPITAL INSUR- ANCE BENEFITS UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM. Subsection (d) of section 1713 is amended to read as follows: "(d)(1)(A) An individual otherwise eligible for medical care under this section who is also entitled to hospital insurance benefits under part A of the medicare program is eligible for medical care under this section only if the individual is also enrolled in the supplementary medical insurance program under part B of the medicare program. "(B) The limitation in subparagraph (A) does not apply to an individual who— "(i) has attained 65 years of age as of the date of the enactment of the Veterans' Survivor Benefits Improvements Act of 2001; and June 5, 2001 [H.R. 801] Veterans' Survivor Benefits Improvements Act of200L 38 USC 101 note.
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