US Congress House Bill 4843 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 18 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

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.

Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]	Rep. Stephanie Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]
Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. Bruce Poliquin [R-ME]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]
Rep. Stephen Knight [R-CA]	Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA]	Rep. Michael Turner [R-OH]	Rep. French Hill [R-AR]
Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Chris Collins [R-NY]	Rep. Daniel Webster [R-FL]
Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]
Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]	Rep. Susan Brooks [R-IN]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]
Rep. Don Young [R-AK]	Rep. Val Demings [D-FL]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]
Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]	Rep. Mike Gallagher [R-WI]
Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]
Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Jason Smith [R-MO]
Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Sean Duffy [R-WI]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Greg Gianforte [R-MT]
Rep. Colleen Hanabusa [D-HI]	Rep. Eric Crawford [R-AR]	Rep. Steve Womack [R-AR]	Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]
Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. James Comer [R-KY]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]
Rep. Elise Stefanik [R-NY]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
2018-01-18	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2018-01-18	House	Introduced in House

SB2105 (Same As) 2017-11-08 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
SB3175 (Related) 2018-06-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4843/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr4843/BILLS-115hr4843ih.pdf