highlights

31 August 2006

This disk update includes all amendments

published in the Federal Register

through August 24, 2006

Each time you receive a new updated disk of your Title 38 (C.F.R.) regulations, this file—Highlights—will be on the disk.

The file will contain a brief, plain-language description of every substantive modification made since the last update.

By reading the Highlights file immediately upon receipt of an updated disk, you will know what changes have been made to the Title 38 regulations during the last supplement period.

Modifications in this supplement include the following:

1. On 28 July 2006, the VA published a final rule, effective 28 August 2006, to amend the adjudication regulations to define the term “psychosis.” Change:

 Added new §3.384.

2. On 8 August 2006, the VA published a final rule, effective that same date, to amend its adjudication regulations to incorporate certain provisions from the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 and the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004—plot or interment allowance eligibility, forfeiture of benefits, dependency and indemnity compensation payments, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 (as amended), exclusions from income for pension purposes, benefits for persons disabled by treatment or vocational rehabilitation provided by VA, effective date of death pension, diseases subject to presumptive service connection, and the establishment of the Social Security Administration as an independent agency and the fact that the Coast Guard is now under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Homeland Security. Changes:

 In §3.1, revised paragraph (g)(4);

 In §3.10, added new paragraph (e)(4);

 In §3.152, revised paragraph (a);

 Revised §§3.153 and 3.715;

 In §3.272, added a new paragraph (x);

 In §3.309, added new paragraph (d)(3)(ii)(E);

 In §3.362, added a new paragraph (e);

 In §3.400, revised paragraphs (c)(3)(i)–(ii);

 In §3.714, revised paragraph (f) introductory text;

 In §3.800, added a new paragraph (a)(4);

 In §3.808, removed the introductory text; revised paragraph (a); redesignated paragraph (b)(1) introductory text as paragraph (b) introductory text, and revised it; removed paragraph (b)(2); and redesignated former paragraphs (b)(1)(i)–(iv) as paragraphs (b)(1)–(4), respectively;

 In §3.903, redesignated paragraphs (a)(2)–(4) as (a)(3)–(5), and added a new paragraph (a)(2);

 In §3.1600, revised paragraph (a); revised paragraph (f) introductory text; redesignated paragraphs (f)(1)–(5) as (f)(2)(i)–(v); added new paragraphs (f)(1) and (f)(2) introductory text; and

 In §3.1604, revised paragraph (d)(1)(i) and added new paragraph (d)(5).

3. On 11 August 2006, the VA published an interim final rule, effective that same date, to amend regulations regarding grants to States for construction or acquisition of State homes in order to ensure that projects designed to remedy conditions at an existing State home that have been cited as threatening to the lives or safety of the residents receive priority for receiving VA grants in the future (including in fiscal year 2007). Change:

 In §59.50, revised paragraph (b).