US Congress House Bill 6566 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on July 26 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-07-26 - 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]

Agent Orange Exposure Fairness Act This bill, with respect to veterans exposed to certain herbicide agents during military, naval, or air service in Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975: (1) removes the manifestation period required for presumption of service connection for chloracne and porphyria cutanea tarda, and (2) includes in such presumption acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy becoming manifest to a disability degree of 10% or more. Under a presumption of service-connection, specific disabilities diagnosed in certain veterans are presumed to have been caused by the circumstances of their military service. Health care benefits and disability compensation may then be awarded without having to go through a separate adjudicative process.

Agent Orange Exposure Fairness Act

Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]

Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-FL]

Rep. Don Young [R-AK]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-07-26	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
2018-07-26	House	Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2018-07-26	House	Introduced in House

SB3355 (Related) 2018-08-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6566/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr6566/BILLS-115hr6566ih.pdf