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Ensuring Survivors Benefits during COVID–19 Act of 2020

Introduced: July 2, 2020 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Jul 2, 2020
Introduced in Senate
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Ensuring Survivors Benefits during COVID-19 Act of 2020

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to get a medical opinion to determine if a service-connected disability was the principal or contributory cause of death in situations where a veteran with a service-connected disability dies from COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), or complications from COVID-19, and the death certificate does not clearly identify the service-connected disability as the principal or contributory cause of death.

What's happening now July 2, 2020

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

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Democratic 4 Republican 2
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Blumenthal, Richard
Connecticut · Nov 17, 2020
 R
Boozman, John
Arkansas · Oct 1, 2020
 D
Shaheen, Jeanne
New Hampshire · Sep 30, 2020
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Warren, Elizabeth
Massachusetts · Sep 29, 2020
McSally, Martha
· Sep 15, 2020
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Coons, Christopher A.
Delaware · Sep 8, 2020
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Tillis, Thomas
North Carolina · Jul 2, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4166: Ensuring Survivors Benefits during COVID–19 Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4166/
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"S. 4166: Ensuring Survivors Benefits during COVID–19 Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4166/.
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S. 4166, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4166/.
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