[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1428 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1428

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide wartime disability compensation for certain 
                   veterans with Parkinson's disease.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2009

  Mr. Filner 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 direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide wartime disability compensation for certain 
                   veterans with Parkinson's disease.

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

SECTION 1. PRESUMPTION OF SERVICE CONNECTION FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE 
              FOR CERTAIN VETERANS WHO SERVED IN THE REPUBLIC OF 
              VIETNAM.

    Section 1116(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(I) Parkinson's disease becoming manifest to a degree of 
        disability of 10 percent or more.''.
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