A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of a veterans' disability benefit in the case of certain veterans who have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Agent Orange Disability Benefits Act of 1987 - Creates a rebuttable presumption, for purposes of veterans' disability benefits determinations, that, in the case of any veteran who performed active service in Vietnam, the disease of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was incurred in or aggravated by such service.
Allows the presumption to be rebutted upon a showing that the veteran did not incur the disease during service performed in Vietnam or that the veteran was not exposed to herbicides while performing such service.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.
Committee on Veterans requested executive comment from VA, OMB, Defense Department.
Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
Committee on Veterans. Hearings held.
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