[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2997 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2997

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to codify the addition by the 
  Secretary of Veterans Affairs of certain additional diseases to the 
   list of diseases occurring in veterans that are considered to be 
                           service-connected.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

 Mr. Slattery (for himself, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Stump, Mr. Applegate, 
 Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Evans, Mr. Everett, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Stearns, Mr. 
 Sangmeister, Mr. Tejeda, and Mr. King) 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 codify the addition by the 
  Secretary of Veterans Affairs of certain additional diseases to the 
   list of diseases occurring in veterans that are considered to be 
                           service-connected.

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

SECTION 1. CODIFICATION OF CERTAIN ADDITIONAL SERVICE-CONNECTED 
              PRESUMPTIONS.

    Section 1116(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
            ``(D) Hodgkin's disease becoming manifest to a degree of 10 
        percent or more.
            ``(E) Porphyria cutanea tarda becoming manifest to a degree 
        of 10 percent or more.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall take effect on the date on 
which a final regulation prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs as required by section 1116(c) of title 38, United States Code, 
takes effect establishing a presumption of service connection for the 
disabilities specified in that amendment.

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