Bill > S3175

This bill, the Thailand Veteran Agent Orange Parity Act of 2018, seeks to amend Title 38 of the United States Code to provide health care, vocational training and rehabilitation, and monetary allowance to children suffering from spina bifida whose parents are veterans who served in Thailand and were exposed to herbicide agents during the period from January 9, 1962 to May 7, 1975. The bill defines a "veteran of covered service in Thailand" as any individual who served in the active military, naval, or air service in Thailand during that time period and was determined to have been exposed to a herbicide agent. The bill also makes a conforming amendment to the definition of "child" in the existing law to include the natural child of such a veteran, regardless of age or marital status, who was conceived after the date the veteran first entered the covered service in Thailand.