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A bill to modify the presumption of service connection for veterans who were exposed to herbicide agents while serving in the Armed Forces in Thailand during the Vietnam era, and for other purposes. This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that if it creates a presumption of service connection between the occurrence of a disease and exposure to a herbicide agent while serving in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era at a military base in Thailand, such presumption shall also apply to exposure to a herbicide agent while serving in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era at any military base in Thailand without regard to where on the base the veteran was located or what military job specialty the veteran performed. The VA may provide to any spina bifida-affected child of a veteran who served on active duty in Thailand beginning on January 9, 1962, and ending on May 7, 1975, and who was exposed to a herbicide agent during such service, the same health care, vocational training and rehabilitation, and monetary allowance required to be paid to a similarly affected child of a Vietnam veteran.

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John Boozman (R)*,  Tammy Baldwin (D),  Richard Blumenthal (D),  Roy Blunt (R),  Cory Booker (D),  Bob Casey (D),  Mike Crapo (R),  Joe Donnelly (D),  Tammy Duckworth (D),  Dean Heller (R),  Bob Menendez (D),  Jeff Merkley (D),  Bill Nelson (D),  Marco Rubio (R),  Debbie Stabenow (D),  Jon Tester (D),  Chris Van Hollen (D),  Elizabeth Warren (D),  Ron Wyden (D), 

Senate Veterans' Affairs Hearing (14:30 2/7/2018 SR-418) (on 02/07/2018)

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