[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3327]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2419. Mr. MORAN (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
Merkley, Ms. Warren, and Ms. Collins) submitted an amendment intended 
to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. PRESUMPTION OF HERBICIDE EXPOSURE FOR CERTAIN 
                   VETERANS WHO SERVED IN KOREA.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 11 of title 38, United States 
     Code, is amended by inserting after section 1116 the 
     following new section:

     ``Sec. 1116A. Presumption of herbicide exposure for certain 
       veterans who served in Korea

       ``(a) Presumption of Service-connection.--(1) For the 
     purposes of section 1110 of this title, and subject to 
     section 1113 of this title, a disease specified in subsection 
     (b) that becomes manifest as specified in that subsection in 
     a veteran described in paragraph (2) shall be considered to 
     have been incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in the 
     active military, naval, or air service, notwithstanding that 
     there is no record of evidence of such disease during the 
     period of such service.
       ``(2) A veteran described in this paragraph is a veteran 
     who, during active military, naval, or air service, served in 
     or near the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ), during the 
     period beginning on September 1, 1967, and ending on August 
     31, 1971.
       ``(b) Diseases.--A disease specified in this subsection 
     is--
       ``(1) a disease specified in paragraph (2) of subsection 
     (a) of section 1116 of this title that becomes manifest as 
     specified in that paragraph; or
       ``(2) any additional disease that--
       ``(A) the Secretary determines in regulations warrants a 
     presumption of service-connection by reason of having 
     positive association with exposure to an herbicide agent; and
       ``(B) becomes manifest within any period prescribed in such 
     regulations.
       ``(c) Herbicide Agent.--For purposes of this section, the 
     term `herbicide agent' has the meaning given such term in 
     section 1821(d) of this title.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the 
     item relating to section 1116 the following new item:

``1116A. Presumption of herbicide exposure for certain veterans who 
              served in Korea.''.
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