[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 555 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 555

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the treatment of 
     veterans who participated in the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll as 
 radiation-exposed veterans for purposes of the presumption of service-
    connection of certain disabilities by the Secretary of Veterans 
                    Affairs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 26, 2019

   Ms. Smith (for herself, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Warren, Mr. Merkley, Ms. 
Collins, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Leahy, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Tester, 
Mr. Coons, Ms. Harris, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Markey, and Mr. King) 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 provide for the treatment of 
     veterans who participated in the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll as 
 radiation-exposed veterans for purposes of the presumption of service-
    connection of certain disabilities by the Secretary of Veterans 
                    Affairs, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Mark Takai Atomic Veterans 
Healthcare Parity Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF VETERANS WHO PARTICIPATED IN CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK 
              ATOLL AS RADIATION-EXPOSED VETERANS FOR PURPOSES OF 
              PRESUMPTION OF SERVICE-CONNECTION OF CERTAIN DISABILITIES 
              BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Section 1112(c)(3)(B) of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following new clause:
                    ``(v) Cleanup of Enewetak Atoll during the period 
                beginning on January 1, 1977, and ending on December 
                31, 1980.''.
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