HR 4923 · 96th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security
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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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.(1979-07-23)
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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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