A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption that certain chronic or tropical diseases contracted by a prisoner of war within five years from the date of his separation from service were incurred in or aggravated by such service, and to provide that bronchial asthma and bronchitis shall be considered chronic diseases.

Summary

Provides that a chronic or tropical disease becoming manifest to a degree of ten percent or more within five years from the date of separation from military service, and bronchial asthma and bronchitis shall be presumed to be service-connected for purposes of veterans' wartime disability compensation for World War II, the Korean conflict, and Vietnam era prisoners of war.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 8 February 1979

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.