[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. 1822 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1822

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize provision of care 
      to veterans treated with nasopharyngeal radium irradiation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 23, 1998

 Mr. Specter (for himself, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Murkowski, 
  Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Wellstone, Mr. Lieberman, and Mrs. 
    Murray) 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 authorize provision of care 
      to veterans treated with nasopharyngeal radium irradiation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That except as 
otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment is 
expressed in terms of an amendment to a section or other provision, the 
reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other 
provision of title 38, United States Code.
    Sec. 2. (a) The Secretary may examine, and include in the 
Department's Ionizing Radiation Registry Program, any veteran who 
received nasopharyngeal radium irradiation treatments while serving in 
the active military, naval, or air service.
    (b) Section 1710 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2)(F), by inserting ``or who received 
        nasopharyngeal radium irradiation treatments,'' after 
        ``environmental hazard,''; and
            (2) in subsection (e)(1)(B) by inserting ``, or a veteran 
        who received nasopharyngeal radium irradiation treatments while 
        serving in the active military, naval, or air service,'' after 
        ``radiation-exposed veteran''.
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