A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide increased awards of service-connected compensation to certain blinded veterans who are suffering from additional hearing disabilities.

Summary

Decreases from 60 to 20 percent disabling the degree of deafness at which a veteran suffering from service-connected total blindness must be rated to qualify for additional disability compensation.

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Timeline

1. 2 May 1983

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 2 May 1983

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 5 May 1983

   Committee

   Committee on Veterans requested executive comment from VA, OMB.

   Source: Committee

4. 8 June 1983

   Committee

   Committee on Veterans. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-626.

   Source: Committee

5. 21 July 1983

   Reported

   Committee on Veterans. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1388 ordered to be reported.

   Source: Committee

Votes

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Versions

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 2 May 1983

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Thurmond, Strom [R-SC] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Randolph, Jennings [D-WV] · D · Sponsor
• · ssva00 · Standing

Related records

• related to → A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of compensation payable to certain blinded veterans who are suffering from additional hearing disabilities.
• related to ← An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of compensation for disabled veterans and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors; to express the sense of the Congress that increases in the rates of compensation should take effect on December 1 beginning in fiscal year 1985, and for other purposes.