A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to authorize a presumption of service connection for cause of death in certain cases involving veterans who had been rated permanently and totally disabled due to service-connected disability for at least 1 year immediately preceding death.

Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to presume a service-connected cause of death for purposes of the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation when a veteran had a service-connected disability rated permanent and total for at least one year immediately preceding death, where such death was due to natural causes not the result of misconduct on the veteran's part.