3.0.0 2026 2023-01-11T20:28:03Z 2023-01-11T20:28:03Z Senate S S 2007-09-06 110 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-09-06T21:58:19Z 2007-09-06 ssva00 Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. IntroReferral 2007-09-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress A000069 Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL AKAKA D HI KOHIKINA Y Armed Forces and National Security Disabled Environmental Protection Herbicides Veterans' disability compensation Vietnam veterans Armed Forces and National Security 00 2007-09-06 Introduced in Senate 2007-12-04T21:45:21Z Agent Orange Equitable Compensation Act - States that awards of veterans' disability compensation based on a presumption of service-connection due to exposure to certain herbicide agents during service in Vietnam (Agent Orange compensation) shall not be effective earlier than the effective date of the regulation establishing such presumption.

States that, for purposes of such presumption, a veteran will be considered to have served in Vietnam only if the veteran was physically present on land in Vietnam or on its inland waterways, and not if the veteran served only on the waters offshore or in airspace above.

]]> Agent Orange Equitable Compensation Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, chapter 11, to clarify that an award of benefits based on a regulatory presumption established pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 1116 after September 30, 2002, cannot be made effective earlier than the date the regulatory presumption was established; and to clarify that the presumption of herbicide exposure provided by 38 U.S.C. section 1116(f) applies only to veterans who served in Vietnam on land or on Vietnam's inland waterways and not to those who served only in waters offshore or in airspace above. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Agent Orange Equitable Compensation Act Short Titles as Introduced Agent Orange Equitable Compensation Act Introduced in Senate 2007-09-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2026is/xml/BILLS-110s2026is.xml 2007-09-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.