[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1906 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1906

   To provide that service connection for disabilities arising from 
 exposure to ionizing radiation or dioxin may be established by direct 
                               evidence.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

              March 8 (legislative day, February 22), 1994

  Mr. Rockefeller (for himself, Mr. DeConcini, Mr. Graham, Mr. Akaka, 
 and Mr. Daschle) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
           and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that service connection for disabilities arising from 
 exposure to ionizing radiation or dioxin may be established by direct 
                               evidence.

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

SECTION 1. SERVICE CONNECTION FOR CERTAIN DISABILITIES RELATING TO 
              EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION OR DIOXIN.

    Section 5 of the Veterans' Dioxin and Radiation Exposure 
Compensation Standards Act (Public Law 98-542; 98 Stat. 2725; 38 U.S.C. 
1154 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(d) The regulations prescribed under this section may not 
prohibit, or be construed to prohibit, a veteran from establishing 
pursuant to section 1110 of title 38, United States Code, service 
connection for a disease or disability that the veteran claims to be 
the result of the veteran's exposure to ionizing radiation or dioxin 
during a period of service referred to in subsection (a)(1), 
notwithstanding that such regulations do not specify that the disease 
or disability is a radiogenic disease or a disease or disability 
associated with dioxin.''.

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