A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a service-connection presumption for certain diseases caused by exposure to herbicides or other environmental hazards or conditions in veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era.
Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Relief Act - Establishes a presumption of service-connected disability for veterans exposed to herbicides during service in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era who suffer from specified diseases which may be caused by exposure to such herbicides, developed to a ten percent degree of disability. Permits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to determine what other diseases may be due to exposure to herbicides, chemicals or environmental hazards.
Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations within one year of enactment incorporating such determinations and setting forth the standards used to reach them.
Became Public Law No: 98-542.
Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.
Committee on Veterans requested executive comment from VA, OMB.
Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
Committee on Veterans. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-511.
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