effective dates

effective dates Sec. 405. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, this Act shall become effective on the first day of the first calendar month which begins more than ten days after the date of enactment of this Act. (b) The amendments made by section 203 of this Act shall become effective upon enactment. (c) The amendments made by title II of this Act relating to the payment of burial benefits in the case of veterans of the Vietnam era shall become effective on the date of enactment of this Act. If the burial allowance authorized by section 902 of title 38, United States Code, is payable solely by virtue of the enactment of this Act, the two-year period for filing applications, referred to in section 904 of such title 38, shall not end, with respect to an individual whose death occurred prior to the enactment of this Act, before the expiration of the two-year period which begins on the date of enactment of this Act, or, in any case involving the correction of a discharge after the date of enactment of this Act, before the expiration of two years from the date of such correction.