I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3605 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a presumption of 
herbicide exposure for certain veterans who served in Korea. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2017 
Mr. MACARTHUR (for himself, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. LANCE, and Mr. COSTELLO 
of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a 
presumption of herbicide exposure for certain veterans 
who served in Korea. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fairness for Korean 
DMZ Veterans Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. PRESUMPTION OF HERBICIDE EXPOSURE FOR CER-
TAIN VETERANS WHO SERVED IN KOREA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 11 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1116 
the following new section: 
‘‘§ 1116A. Presumption of herbicide exposure for cer-
tain veterans who served in Korea 
‘‘(a) PRESUMPTION OF SERVICE-CONNECTION.—(1) 
For the purposes of section 1110 of this title, and subject 
to section 1113 of this title, a disease specified in sub-
section (b) that becomes manifest as specified in that sub-
section in a veteran described in paragraph (2) shall be 
considered to have been incurred or aggravated in the line 
of duty in the active military, naval, or air service, not-
withstanding that there is no record of evidence of such 
disease during the period of such service. 
‘‘(2) A veteran described in this paragraph is a vet-
eran who, during active military, naval, or air service, 
served in or near the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ), 
during the period beginning on September 1, 1967, and 
ending on August 31, 1971. 
‘‘(b) DISEASES.—A disease specified in this sub-
section is— 
‘‘(1) a disease specified in paragraph (2) of 
subsection (a) of section 1116 of this title that be-
comes manifest as specified in that paragraph; or 
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‘‘(2) any additional disease that— 
‘‘(A) the Secretary determines in regula-
tions warrants a presumption of service-connec-
tion by reason of having positive association 
with exposure to an herbicide agent; and 
‘‘(B) becomes manifest within any period 
prescribed in such regulations. 
‘‘(c) HERBICIDE AGENT.—For purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘herbicide agent’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 1821(d) of this title.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 1116 the following new 
item: 
‘‘1116A. Presumption of herbicide exposure for certain veterans who served in 
Korea.’’. 
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