S 463
118th Congress
Senate
Law
Arizona
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Government liability
Nevada
Nuclear weapons
Radiation
Downwinders Parity Act of 2023
Introduced: February 16, 2023
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To President
Became law
Feb 16, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb 16, 2023
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Downwinders Parity Act of 2023
This bill expands a program that compensates individuals who were exposed to radiation from atmospheric nuclear testing and subsequently developed specified cancers.
Under current law, the program compensates, among others, individuals who were present in a designated geographic area during a period of nuclear testing. The bill expands that area to include all parts of Clark County, Nevada, and Mohave County, Arizona. Current law restricts eligibility to certain parts of those counties.
The Department of Justice must report on efforts to inform individuals newly eligible for compensation about the program.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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