[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2963 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2963

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

                             June 17, 2005

   Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Miller of Florida, Ms. 
 Berkley, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Skelton, Mr. Evans, Mr. Murtha, Mr. Shimkus, 
 Mrs. Emerson, Mr. Snyder, Mr. Kennedy of Minnesota, Mr. Gingrey, Mr. 
  Spratt, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Price of North 
     Carolina, Mr. Weldon of Florida, and Mr. Gene Green of Texas) 
 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 striking ``and blindness'' and inserting ``and 
        impairment of vision''.
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