To amend title 38, United States Code, to change from 30 years to 40 years the period during which the disease of leukemia occuring in a veteran after exposure (while serving on active duty) to nuclear radiation as a result of participation in certain radiation-risk activities shall be presumed to be service connected for purposes of compensation paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

30 cosponsors — 13 Republicans, 17 Democrats

12 of 30 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.

Douglas Applegate (D-OH), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Dan Burton (R-IN), Don Edwards (D-CA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Pete Geren (D-TX), John Hammerschmidt (R-AR), Claude Harris (D-AL), George Hochbrueckner (D-NY), Craig James (R-FL), Ben Jones (D-GA), Jim Jontz (D-IN), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Jill Long (D-IN), Bob McEwen (R-OH), G. Montgomery (D-MS), Bruce Morrison (D-CT), Mike Parker (R-MS), Elizabeth Patterson (D-SC), Bill Paxon (R-NY), L. Payne (D-VA), Thomas Ridge (R-PA), John Rowland (R-CT), George Sangmeister (D-IL), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Robert Smith (R-NH), Harley Staggers (D-WV), Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Charles Stenholm (D-TX), Bob Stump (R-AZ).

More from the sponsor

Other 101st Congress bills sponsored by Rep. J. Rowland.

• H.R. 4475 (101st) Medicare Physician Regulation Relief Amendments of 1990
• H.Con.Res. 246 (101st) Congressional Commitment to Long-Term Care Concurrent Resolution
• H.R. 1710 (101st) Healthy Birth Act of 1989
• H.J.Res. 405 (101st) To provide for the designation of the month of October 1989 as "National HIV and AIDS Awareness Month".
• H.R. 4506 (101st) To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review and revise the list of dangerous contagious diseases used in the exclusion…
• H.R. 1638 (101st) Wayport Development Act of 1989

Sponsor’s state and district

Georgia in Congress · GA-8 district