[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7476 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7476

   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report to 
   Congress on programs to notify veterans of potential exposure to 
  certain herbicide agents outside of Vietnam, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2020

   Mr. Vela introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report to 
   Congress on programs to notify veterans of potential exposure to 
  certain herbicide agents outside of Vietnam, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. REPORT ON OUTREACH BY THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
              REGARDING POTENTIAL EXPOSURE OF VETERANS TO HERBICIDE 
              AGENTS.

    (a) Report Required.--No later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit 
to Congress a report detailing outreach activities regarding the 
potential exposure of veterans to certain herbicide agents at sites 
outside of Vietnam.
    (b) Spanish Language Outreach.--The report required by subsection 
(a) shall include information on whether outreach activities are being 
conducted in Spanish.
    (c) Herbicide Agent Defined.--For the purposes of this Act, the 
term ``herbicide agent'' means a chemical in an herbicide used or 
stored by the United States and allied military forces for the purposes 
of military operations or testing during the period starting on May 1, 
1945 and ending on June 10, 1977.
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