[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3018 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3018

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of 
additional compensation at the so-called ``K rate'' to a veteran with a 
 service-connected disability who has suffered the loss or loss of use 
                       of one lung or one kidney.


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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 provide for the payment of 
additional compensation at the so-called ``K rate'' to a veteran with a 
 service-connected disability who has suffered the loss or loss of use 
                       of one lung or one kidney.

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

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR VETERANS SUFFERING THE SERVICE-
              CONNECTED LOSS OR LOSS OF USE OF A LUNG OR A KIDNEY.

    (a) In General.--Section 1114(k) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting ``or one leg, or one kidney,'' after ``bone 
conduction,''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on October 1, 1993.

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