[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3159 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3159

 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

                           September 28, 1993

  Mr. Evans (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Filner) 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 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) Cancer of the lung, of the larynx, or of the trachea.
            ``(E) Multiple myeloma.''.

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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