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S 3355 115th Congress Senate Armed Forces and National Security Asia Conflicts and wars Hazardous wastes and toxic substances Military personnel and dependents Neurological disorders Veterans' medical care Vietnam

Agent Orange Exposure Fairness Act of 2018

Introduced: August 21, 2018 Introduced by: Blumenthal, Richard Democratic · Connecticut See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Aug 21, 2018
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Agent Orange Exposure Fairness Act of 2018

This bill, with respect to veterans exposed to certain herbicide agents during military, naval, or air service in Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975: (1) removes the manifestation period required for presumption of service connection for chloracne and porphyria cutanea tarda, and (2) includes in such presumption acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy becoming manifest to a disability degree of 10% or more.

Under a presumption of service-connection, specific disabilities diagnosed in certain veterans are presumed to have been caused by the circumstances of their military service. Health care benefits and disability compensation may then be awarded without having to go through a separate adjudicative process.

What's happening now August 21, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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