[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1017 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1017

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of 
  total disability for certain individuals for purposes of nonservice-
                     connected disability pension.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 1997

Mr. Specter (by request) introduced the following bill; which was read 
        twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of 
  total disability for certain individuals for purposes of nonservice-
                     connected disability pension.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That that portion of 
subsection (a) of section 1502 of title 38, United States Code, 
preceding paragraph (1) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) For purposes of this chapter, a person shall be considered to 
be permanently and totally disabled if such person is 65 years of age 
or older and is a patient in a nursing home or, regardless of age, is 
unemployable as a result of a disability reasonably certain to continue 
throughout the life of the disabled person, or is suffering from--''.
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