[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3816 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3816

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that a stroke or 
 heart attack that is incurred or aggravated by a member of a reserve 
  component in the performance of duty while performing inactive duty 
 training shall be considered to be service-connected for purposes of 
 benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2000

Mr. Stupak (for himself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Coyne, Ms. Carson, Mr. Evans, 
 Mr. Filner, Ms. McKinney, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Reyes, Mr. 
Frost, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. Rodriguez, Ms. Berkley, and Mr. Quinn) 
 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 that a stroke or 
 heart attack that is incurred or aggravated by a member of a reserve 
  component in the performance of duty while performing inactive duty 
 training shall be considered to be service-connected for purposes of 
 benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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

SECTION 1. STROKES AND HEART ATTACKS INCURRED OR AGGRAVATED BY MEMBERS 
              OF RESERVE COMPONENTS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTY WHILE 
              PERFORMING INACTIVE DUTY TRAINING TO BE CONSIDERED TO BE 
              SERVICE-CONNECTED FOR PURPOSES OF BENEFITS UNDER LAWS 
              ADMINISTERED BY THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Section 101(24) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new sentence: ``For purposes of this 
paragraph, a cardiovascular accident or an acute myocardial infarction 
incurred in performance of duty during a period of inactive duty 
training shall be considered to be an injury incurred or aggravated in 
line of duty.''.
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