DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SURVIVING SPOUSES OF FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR.

SEC. 501. DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SURVIVING SPOUSES OF FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR. (a) Short Title.—This section may be cited as the “John William Rolen Act”. (b) Eligibility.—Section 1318(b) is amended— (1) by striking “that either—” in the matter preceding paragraph (1) and inserting “rated totally disabling if—”; 113 STAT. 1574 (2) in paragraph (1)— (A) by inserting “the disability” after “(1)”; and (B) by striking “or” after “death;”; (3) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking “if so rated for a lesser period, was so rated continuously” and inserting “the disability was continuously rated totally disabling”; and (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(3) the veteran was a former prisoner of war who died after September 30, 1999, and the disability was continuously rated totally disabling for a period of not later than one year immediately preceding death.”.