Specialist Fourth Class Keith Smith Glioblastoma Parity Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3752 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3752

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a presumption of 
service connection for glioblastoma multiforme for veterans who served 
              in certain locations during the Vietnam era.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 2025

 Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick (for herself and Mrs. Hinson) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a presumption of 
service connection for glioblastoma multiforme for veterans who served 
              in certain locations during the Vietnam era.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Specialist Fourth Class Keith Smith 
Glioblastoma Parity Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Between 1961 and 1971, approximately 19,000,000 gallons 
        of 15 different herbicides were sprayed over the southern 
        region of Vietnam by the United States Armed Forces, including 
        13,000,000 gallons of Agent Orange.
            (2) Between 1968 and 1971, a total of 6,500 spraying 
        missions were carried out in an area of about 1,500,000 
        hectares, which represented about 12 percent of South Vietnam 
        and portions of Laos and Cambodia.
            (3) Studies have found that tens of thousands of Americans 
        were exposed to Agent Orange during the spraying operations.
            (4) Agent Orange exposure continues to negatively affect 
        the lives of veterans of the United States Armed Forces, 
        Vietnamese people, Vietnamese Americans, and their children, 
        and has cut short, the lives of many victims with others living 
        with disease, disabilities, and pain that is often untreated or 
        unrecognized.

SEC. 3. PRESUMPTION OF SERVICE-CONNECTION FOR VETERANS WHO SERVED IN 
              CERTAIN LOCATIONS DURING THE VIETNAM ERA.

    Section 1116(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(N) Glioblastoma multiforme.''.
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