US Congress Senate Bill 3355 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on August 21 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-08-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Pending: Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Agent Orange Exposure Fairness Act of 2018 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 of 2018

Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-08-21	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

HB6566 (Related) 2018-07-26 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3355/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s3355/BILLS-115s3355is.pdf