A bill 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.
Summary
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure that, if it creates a presumption of service-connection between the occurrence of a disease and exposure to an herbicide agent while serving in the Armed Forces between January 9, 1962, and June 30, 1976, at a military base in Thailand, such presumption must also apply to exposure at any military base in Thailand, regardless of where on the base the veteran was located or what military job specialty the veteran performed.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 10, 2021
Last action Apr 28, 2021
Floor votes
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
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Key actions
1
Committee
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Apr 28, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
upper
Mar 10, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
upper
Mar 10, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 21 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
John Boozman
RRepublican
Co
Catherine Cortez Masto
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher A. Coons
DDemocratic
Co
Cory A. Booker
DDemocratic
Co
Dan Sullivan
RRepublican
Co
Debbie Stabenow
DDemocratic
Co
Dianne Feinstein
DDemocratic
Co
Edward J. Markey
DDemocratic
Co
Elizabeth Warren
DDemocratic
Co
Gary C. Peters
DDemocratic
Co
Jacky Rosen
DDemocratic
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