H.R.3455: To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service-connection for certain veterans with Hepatitis C, and for other purposes.

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Presumes to be service-connected, and therefore compensable through veterans' disability compensation, hepatitis C becoming manifest to a degree of ten percent or more after active-duty military service with respect to veterans who, during a period of such service: (1) received a transfusion of blood or blood products before December 31, 1992; (2) were exposed to blood on or through the skin or a mucous membrane; (3) underwent hemodyalisis;...

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Date Description
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
Nov. 6, 2003

Introduced in the House by Chris Bell (D-Texas)

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