[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5477 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5477

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve compensation benefits 
        for veterans in certain cases of loss of paired organs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2002

    Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Owens, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Frost, Ms. 
Woolsey, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Evans, Mr. Reyes, Ms. 
    Lee, and Mr. McIntyre) 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 improve compensation benefits 
        for veterans in certain cases of loss of paired 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 ``Dr. James Allen Disabled Veterans 
Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPENSATION BENEFITS FOR VETERANS IN CERTAIN CASES OF LOSS OF 
              PAIRED ORGANS.

    Section 1160(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``blindness'' the second 
        place it appears and inserting ``impairment of vision''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking ``total deafness'' the 
        second place it appears and inserting ``hearing impairment''.
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