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HR 2573 111th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Administrative law and regulatory procedures Department of Veterans Affairs Disability assistance Evidence and witnesses Nuclear weapons Radioactive wastes and releases Veterans' pensions and compensation

Atomic Veterans Relief Act

Introduced: May 21, 2009 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 22, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
May 21, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
May 21, 2009
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Atomic Veterans Relief Act - Includes within the definition of a "radiation-risk activity" for purposes of eligibility for veterans' disability compensation the exposure at any time to ionizing radiation from undetonated weapons or residual contamination resulting from a nuclear detonation.

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include in regulations pertaining to the service-connection of veterans' disabilities additional provisions to ensure, in the case of a claim by a radiation-exposed veteran for service-connection of a nonpresumptive disability, that the procedures for establishment of whether the disability is service-connected and which require the mathematical calculation of the level of exposure of the veteran to the ionizing radiation (commonly referred to as dose reconstruction) also require the Secretary to, among other things: (1) determine the facts and circumstances of the exposure while presuming the veteran's recitation of the event as correct, unless clear and convincing evidence establishes otherwise; and (2) obtain a reconstructed dose based on specific facts and circumstances established by the evidence.

What's happening now May 22, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

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