[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5739 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5739

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of 
  service-connection of disabilities relating to blast exposures with 
    respect to disability compensation payments by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2020

 Ms. Velazquez (for herself, Mr. Katko, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Suozzi, Mrs. 
 Radewagen, Mr. Engel, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. King 
 of New York, Mr. Quigley, Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico, and Ms. 
   Jayapal) 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 establish a presumption of 
  service-connection of disabilities relating to blast exposures with 
    respect to disability compensation payments by the Secretary of 
                           Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``Blast Exposure Protection Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. PRESUMPTION OF SERVICE-CONNECTION OF DISABILITIES RELATING TO 
              BLAST EXPOSURE.

    Section 1112 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) For the purposes of section 1110 of this title, and subject 
to the provisions of section 1113 of this title, an injury or illness 
of a veteran that is associated with a blast exposure by the veteran 
during active military, naval, or air service shall be considered to 
have been incurred in or aggravated during such active military, naval, 
or air service, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of 
such injury or illness during a period of such service.''.
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