[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2999 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2999

To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the requirement that a 
 chronic disease becoming manifest in a veteran within one year of the 
 veteran's discharge from military service must be at least 10 percent 
disabling in order to be presumed to be service-connected for purposes 
                         of veterans' benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

  Mr. Slattery (by request) 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 requirement that a 
 chronic disease becoming manifest in a veteran within one year of the 
 veteran's discharge from military service must be at least 10 percent 
disabling in order to be presumed to be service-connected for purposes 
                         of veterans' benefits.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section 1112 
of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out ``to a 
degree of 10 percent or more'' each place it appears.
    (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on 
October 1, 1993.

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