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Subj: Carbon Tet exposure-Vet Bill passed
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Subject: the `Veterans Carbon Tetrachloride Benefits Act'.
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:17:08 -0800
108th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4179
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a presumption of service
connection for certain specified diseases and disabilities in the case of
veterans who were exposed during military service to carbon tetrachloride.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 20, 2004
Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota 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 provide a presumption of service
connection for certain specified diseases and disabilities in the case of
veterans who were exposed during military service to carbon tetrachloride.
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 `Veterans Carbon Tetrachloride Benefits Act'.
SEC. 2. PRESUMPTIONS OF SERVICE CONNECTION WITH RESPECT TO EXPOSURE TO
CARBON TETRACHLORIDE.
Section 1112 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
`(d)(1) For the purposes of section 1110 of this title, and subject to the
provisions of section 1113 of this title, in the case of a veteran who
served for ninety days or more in active military, naval, or air service and
who while in such service was exposed to carbon tetrachloride, any disease
or disability specified in paragraph (2) becoming manifest in such veteran
shall be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by such service,
notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such disease during
the period of such service.
`(2) Diseases and disabilities referred to in paragraph (1) are the
following:
`(A) Depleted vision or floater cataracts.
`(B) Hearing impairments such as high-pitch ringing, sensitivity to loud
noises, and loss of hearing.
`(C) Memory losses such as lapses of recall, dates, numbers, and inverting
numbers and letters.
`(D) Growths.
`(E) Swelling of hands or feet.
`(F) Aching bones or joints throughout the body (not associated with
arthritis).
`(G) Loss of hair.
`(H) Deterioration of nervous system.
`(I) Pulmonary edema.
`(J) Hemorrhagic congestion.'.
http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr4179.html
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