[History of Bills, Volume 130 (1984)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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S. 1651--A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for 
    presumption of service connection to be established by the 
    Administrator of Veterans' Affairs for certain diseases of certain 
    veterans exposed to dioxin or radiation during service in the 
    Armed Forces; to require the Administrator to develop, through 
    process of public participation and subject to judicial review, 
    regulations specifying standards for the presumptions applicable 
    to the resolution of claims for disability compensation based on 
    such exposures; to require that such regulations address certain 
    specified diseases; and to require that all claimants for 
    Veterans' Administration benefits be given the benefit of every 
    reasonable doubt in claims adjudications, and for other purposes; 
    to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
  By Mr. CRANSTON (for himself, Mr. Specter, Mr. Mitchell, and Mr. 
    Biden)
  Cosponsors added
  Debated
  Amendments
  Indefinitely postponed