[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2309 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2309

To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the service treatable 
  as service engaged in combat with the enemy for utilization of non-
 official evidence for proof of service-connection in a combat-related 
                           disease or injury.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 6, 2007

   Mr. Akaka introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the service treatable 
  as service engaged in combat with the enemy for utilization of non-
 official evidence for proof of service-connection in a combat-related 
                           disease or injury.

    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 ``Compensation for Combat Veterans 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF SERVICE TREATABLE AS SERVICE ENGAGED IN COMBAT 
              WITH THE ENEMY FOR UTILIZATION OF NON-OFFICIAL EVIDENCE 
              FOR PROOF OF SERVICE-CONNECTION IN COMBAT-RELATED 
              DISEASES OR INJURIES.

    Section 1154(b) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(b)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) A veteran who during active service described in paragraph 
(1) served in a combat zone for purposes of section 112 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986, or a predecessor provision of law, shall be 
treated as having engaged in combat with the enemy in active service 
for purposes of that paragraph during such service in that combat 
zone.''.
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