[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2829 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2829

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve compensation benefits 
 for veterans in certain cases of impairment of vision involving both 
                                 eyes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2003

 Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Crowley, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Ms. 
 Woolsey, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Owens, Mr. Frost, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. McIntyre, 
 Mr. Wexler, Ms. Lee, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Watson, Mr. Reyes, Mr. Schiff, 
and Mr. Evans) 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 impairment of vision involving both 
                                 eyes.

    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. ENHANCED COMPENSATION BENEFITS FOR VETERANS IN CERTAIN CASES OF 
              IMPAIRMENT OF VISION INVOLVING BOTH EYES.

    Section 1160(a)(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``blindness'' the first place it appears 
        and inserting ``impairment of vision compensable to a degree of 
        10 percent or more''; and
            (2) by strik