Agent Orange Respiratory Cancer Act of 2001

Agent Orange Respiratory Cancer Act of 2001 - Repeals the requirement that, in order to be considered service-connected and, therefore, compensable under veterans' disability compensation, respiratory cancers must have become manifest in a veteran within 30 years after the last date on which the veteran performed active military service in the Republic of Vietnam.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1587 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1587

     To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the 30-year 
   manifestation period for a presumption of service-connection for 
respiratory cancers occurring in veterans who served in the Republic of 
 Vietnam during the period beginning on January 9, 1962, and ending on 
                              May 7, 1975.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2001

   Ms. McKinney (for herself, Mr. Evans, Mr. Reyes, and Ms. Brown of 
   Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the 30-year 
   manifestation period for a presumption of service-connection for 
respiratory cancers occurring in veterans who served in the Republic of 
 Vietnam during the period beginning on January 9, 1962, and ending on 
                              May 7, 1975.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Agent Orange Respiratory Cancer Act 
of 2001''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF 30-YEAR MANIFESTATION PERIOD FOR PRESUMPTION OF 
              SERVICE-CONNECTION FOR RESPIRATORY CANCERS OCCURRING IN 
              VETERANS WHO SERVED IN THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM DURING THE 
              PERIOD BEGINNING ON JANUARY 9, 1962, AND ENDING ON MAY 7, 
              1975.

    Section 1116(a)(2)(F) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ``within 30 years'' and all that follows through ``May 7, 
1975''.
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