[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3998 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3998

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that the rate of 
    compensation paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the 
    service-connected loss of one or both breasts due to a radical 
mastectomy shall be the same as the rate for the service-connected loss 
             or loss of use of one or more creative organs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2000

   Mr. Evans (for himself, Ms. Berkley, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Filner, Mr. 
Gutierrez, Ms. Brown of Florida, Ms. Carson, Mr. Reyes, Mr. Rodriguez, 
  Mr. Shows, Mrs. Morella, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Lofgren, Mrs. 
  Mink of Hawaii, Ms. Waters, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. 
Costello, Mr. Frost, Mr. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Mr. McHugh, and Mrs. 
   Thurman) 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 the rate of 
    compensation paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the 
    service-connected loss of one or both breasts due to a radical 
mastectomy shall be the same as the rate for the service-connected loss 
             or loss of use of one or more creative organs.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans' Special Monthly 
Compensation Gender Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPENSATION TO BE PAID BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AT 
              SO-CALLED ``K'' RATE FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED LOSS OF ONE OR 
              BOTH BREASTS DUE TO RADICAL MASTECTOMY.

    Section 1114(k) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``or one or both breasts due to a radical mastectomy or 
modified radical mastectomy,'' after ``loss or loss of use of one or 
more creative organs,''.
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