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Legislation

Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.

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1 instrument in Federal. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.

A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.

Federal

Public Law 117-168 Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our PACT Act of 2022

Needs reviewEnactedProgram created Scope changed

Signed 2022-08-10

Introduced Done, 2021-12-09, step 1 of 6
In committee Done, date not recorded, step 2 of 6
Passed one chamber Done, 2022-02-17, step 3 of 6
Passed both chambers Done, 2022-08-02, step 4 of 6
Signed by the President Done, 2022-08-10, step 5 of 6
In effect Done, 2022-08-10, step 6 of 6

Expands benefits Created presumptions of service connection for burn pit and other toxic exposures and added Agent Orange conditions.

Created the toxic exposure presumptions: burn pit and airborne hazard conditions, added cancers, and further Agent Orange conditions. A veteran who was denied before the presumption existed can be granted now, and a survivor can qualify on cause of death alone. The federal entries in this catalog describe compensation, health care, and DIC without describing the presumptive list, so a reader cannot tell from them that the gate moved.

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Touches 38 U.S.C. § 1119 · 38 U.S.C. § 1120

Catalog entries (4)

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