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[72 Stat. 630]
PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
[72 Stat. 630]

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PUBLIC LAW 85-678-AUG. 18, 1958

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Public Law 85-678 August 18, 1958 [H.R. 11577]

Veterans. Disability insurance benefits, increase. 54 Stat. 1009. 38 USC 802.

38 USC 822, 8 2 1.

Total disability premiums.

38 USC 822.

Effective date.

AN ACT To increase from $5 to $10 per month for each $1,000 national service life insurance in force the amount of total disability income benefits which may be purchased by insureds, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the portion of subsection 602(v)(1) of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 which precedes the first proviso is amended to read as follows: " (v)(1) The Administrator shall, upon application by the insured and proof of good health S£.tisfactory to the Administrator and payment of such extra premium as the Administrator shall prescribe, include in any national service life insurance policy on the life of the insured (including insurance issued under section 621 but not including insurance issued under section 620) provisions whereby an insured who is shown to have become totally disabled for a period of six consecutive months or more commencing after the date of such application and before attaining the age of sixty and while the payment of any premium is not in default, shall be paid monthly disability benefits from the first day of the seventh consecutive month of and during the continuance of such total disability of $10 for each $1,000 of such insurance in effect when such benefits become payable; however, the total disability provision authorized under this amendatory Act shall not be added to a policy containing the total disability coverage heretofore issued under this subsection, except upon surrender of such total disability coverage, proof of good health satisfactory to the Administrator, and payment of such extra premium as the Administrator shall determine is required in such cases:". SEC. 2. Subsection 602(v)(1) of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 is further amended by adding the following at the end thereof: "The total disability provision issued under this subsection which is included in a policy of insurance issued under section 621 shall be nonparticipating. The premiums on such total disability provision shall be credited directly to the revolving fund established under section 621 and payments on such total disability provision shall be made directly from such revolving fund. SEC. 3. This Act shall be effective the first day of the third calendar month following the date of its approval. Approved August 18, 1958.

Public Law 85-679 August 18, 1958 [H. R. 8980]

AN ACT To authorize an exchange of lands at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Hawse of Representatives of the ti(^*i p^kArk °" United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose E^chlTnge of of Consolidating Federal holdings of land within Hot Springs Na^""'*^' tional Park, Arkansas, and in order to bring about certain improvements in park land use, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to accept, on behalf of the United States, approximately 4.75 acres of non-Federal land or interests in land situated in blocks 195 and 196 of the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and in exchange therefor to convey by deed on behalf of the United States to the grantor of the aforesaid property certain federally owned land or interests in