A bill to amend section 312(c) of title 38, United States Code, so as to provide for additional presumptions relating to certain diseases and disabilities of prisoners of war.

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Introduced

8 February 1979

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Status

Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summary

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

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/2015
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