Presumes to be service-connected, and therefore compensable through veterans' disability compensation, hepatitis C becoming manifest to a degree of ten percent or more after active-duty military service with respect to veterans who, during a period of such service: (1) received a transfusion of blood or blood products before December 31, 1992; (2) were exposed to blood through the skin; (3) underwent hemodialysis; (4) experienced a needle-stick injury, not due to the veteran's willful misconduct; (5) were diagnosed with unexplained liver disease; or (6) served in a health-care position or specialty under circumstances to be prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14453-14454)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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