[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4321 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4321

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of 
  service-connection of disabilities relating to blast exposures with 
    respect to disability compensation payments by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

Ms. Velazquez (for herself, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. 
Clarke of New York, Mr. Lance, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. King of New York, Mr. 
Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, 
Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Soto, 
  Mr. Evans, Ms. Norton, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mrs. 
Radewagen, Mr. Jones, Mr. Sires, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Loebsack, Mr. Quigley, 
   Mr. Crowley, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Engel, and Mr. McEachin) 
 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 establish a presumption of 
  service-connection of disabilities relating to blast exposures with 
    respect to disability compensation payments by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``Blast Exposure Protection Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. PRESUMPTION OF SERVICE-CONNECTION OF DISABILITIES RELATING TO 
              BLAST EXPOSURE.

    Section 1112 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) For the purposes of section 1110 of this title, and subject 
to the provisions of section 1113 of this title, an injury or illness 
of a veteran that is associated with a blast exposure by the veteran 
during active military, naval, or air service shall be considered to 
have been incurred in or aggravated during such active military, naval, 
or air service, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of 
such injury or illness during a period of such service.''.
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