Periodic Review of Automatic Maximum Coverage under SERVICEMEMBERS' Group Life Insurance and VETERANS' Group Life Insurance
Section 2 · Sec. 2 ·
What this chapter is about
This part adds a new section to a law about life insurance for troops. Every five years, the head of the VA must check one number. It is the most a person can be covered for. The first check is on January 1, 2026. What the check finds goes to two groups in Congress. This part also sets out the second number the first one is measured against.
The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“Subchapter III of chapter 19 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:”
The vehicle for everything else in the section. It adds one new section at the end of subchapter III of chapter 19 of title 38, United States Code, numbered 1980B and headed "Periodic review of automatic maximum coverage". The three subsections that follow in this Act are the text of that new section. This Act does not state what the rest of the subchapter provides.
What the document actually says
“Subchapter III of chapter 19 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:”
That sentence, in plain words
One more section is added to a law about troops. It goes at the end of that part.
What this is about
The law it is added to is title 38. That is the part of federal law about veterans. The new section is numbered 1980B. The rest of this part is what that new section says.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of Veterans AffairsHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“complete a review of how the amount specified in section 1967(a)(3)(A)(i) compares to the amount described in subsection (b)”
Paragraph (1) of the new section 1980B(a). The review falls due on January 1, 2026, and every five years thereafter. What it compares is the amount specified in section 1967(a)(3)(A)(i) of title 38 against the amount the new section works out in its subsection (b). This Act does not state what section 1967(a)(3)(A)(i) specifies.
What the document actually says
“complete a review of how the amount specified in section 1967(a)(3)(A)(i) compares to the amount described in subsection (b)”
That sentence, in plain words
The VA must look at one number. It must see how that number stacks up against a second number.
What this is about
The first look is due on January 1, 2026. After that, one is due every five years. The first number is set in an older law. The second number is worked out later in this part.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of Veterans AffairsHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate the results of the review, which may serve as a guide for coverage increases within the existing administrative incremental structure”
Paragraph (2) of the new section 1980B(a), carrying the same schedule as the review itself. The results go to two committees, one in each chamber. The new section says the results may serve as a guide for coverage increases within the existing administrative incremental structure. It sets no new coverage amount and names no structure beyond that phrase.
What the document actually says
“submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate the results of the review, which may serve as a guide for coverage increases within the existing administrative incremental structure”
That sentence, in plain words
The VA must send what it found to Congress. Two groups get it, one in the House and one in the Senate.
What this is about
The law calls the report a guide. It could help set higher coverage later. But the law does not set a new amount here. It does not say a raise must happen.
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The document says “means”Who acts: Secretary of Veterans AffairsHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“the average percentage by which the Consumer Price Index changed during the five fiscal years preceding the review under subsection (a)”
Subsection (b) of the new section 1980B, which supplies the second half of the comparison the review makes. The amount is $500,000 multiplied by the figure quoted here. The five fiscal years counted are those preceding the review. The new section does not say how the multiplication is to be carried out or how the result is to be rounded.
What the document actually says
“the average percentage by which the Consumer Price Index changed during the five fiscal years preceding the review under subsection (a)”
That sentence, in plain words
Take how much prices moved over five years. Use the average of that change.
What this is about
This is the second number in the check. It starts at $500,000. The price change is then used to work it out. The five years are the ones just before each check.
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The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“the term `Consumer Price Index' means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.”
Subsection (c) of the new section 1980B. It fixes which published series the term refers to, and it does so only for that section. The Act does not describe the series or say how often it is published.
What the document actually says
“the term `Consumer Price Index' means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.”
That sentence, in plain words
The law says which price measure to use. It is the one for city shoppers.
What this is about
A federal office puts that number out. That office sits inside the Labor Department. The law names it so there is no doubt which one to use.
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The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 19 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1980A the following new item:”
Subsection (b) of section 2. It puts a line for section 1980B into the table of sections at the front of chapter 19 of title 38, after the item for section 1980A. It requires nothing of anybody.
What the document actually says
“The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 19 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1980A the following new item:”
That sentence, in plain words
A list at the front of the chapter is changed. The new section is added to that list.
What this is about
Laws keep a table of what is in them. The new section gets a line in that table. It goes right after the line before it. This adds nothing new for anyone to do.
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Each distinct thing the section does: the new section it adds to title 38, the review the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is to complete and how often, the results the Secretary is to submit to the two Veterans' Affairs Committees, the amount the review compares against, the term the new section defines, and the change to the table of sections.
Nothing in the section is left out. Both subsections are recorded, and the clerical amendment is recorded as the list change it is.
The section works by adding a new section 1980B to subchapter III of chapter 19 of title 38, United States Code, and that title is not indexed here. So the site does not record what section 1967(a)(3)(A)(i) of title 38 specifies, what the rest of subchapter III provides, or what the existing administrative incremental structure the new section refers to consists of. A reader following a citation into title 38 will find the older table of sections until this Act is applied.
