A bill to modify the presumption of service connection for veterans who were exposed to herbicide agents while serving in the Armed Forces in Thailand during the Vietnam era, and for other purposes.
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This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure that, if it creates a presumption of service-connection between the occurrence of a disease and exposure to an herbicide agent while serving in the Armed Forces between January 9, 1962, and June 30, 1976, at a military base in Thailand, such presumption must also apply to exposure at any military base in Thailand, regardless of where on the base the veteran was located or what military job specialty the veteran performed.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 657: A bill to modify the presumption of service connection for veterans who were exposed to herbicide agents while serving in the Armed Forces in Thailand during the Vietnam era, and for other purposes.. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-657/
"S. 657: A bill to modify the presumption of service connection for veterans who were exposed to herbicide agents while serving in the Armed Forces in Thailand during the Vietnam era, and for other purposes.." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-657/.
S. 657, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-657/.
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