Bill > HR4843

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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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Bruce Westerman (R)*,  Pete Aguilar (D),  Joyce Beatty (D),  Sanford Bishop (D),  Susan Brooks (R),  Michael Capuano (D),  Chris Collins (R),  James Comer (R),  Kevin Cramer (R),  Rick Crawford (R),  Peter DeFazio (D),  John Delaney (D),  Val Demings (D),  Theodore Deutch (D),  Sean Duffy (R),  Brian Fitzpatrick (R),  Mike Gallagher (R),  Greg Gianforte (R),  Morgan Griffith (R),  Colleen Hanabusa (D),  French Hill (R),  Hank Johnson (D),  Walter Jones (R),  Mike Kelly (R),  Dan Kildee (D),  Derek Kilmer (D),  Ron Kind (D),  Stephen Knight (R),  Ann Kuster (D),  Zoe Lofgren (D),  Michelle Lujan Grisham (D),  Sean Maloney (D),  Tom McClintock (R),  David McKinley (R),  Stephanie Murphy (D),  Jimmy Panetta (D),  Ed Perlmutter (D),  Collin Peterson (D),  Bruce Poliquin (R),  Jacky Rosen (D),  Tim Ryan (D),  Carol Shea-Porter (D),  Kyrsten Sinema (I),  Jason Smith (R),  Jackie Speier (D),  Elise Stefanik (R),  Tom Suozzi (D),  Mike Thompson (D),  Scott Tipton (R),  Mike Turner (R),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Daniel Webster (R),  Steve Womack (R),  Don Young (R), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. (on 01/18/2018)

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