Veterans' Dioxin and Radiation Exposure Compensation Standards Act
PL 98-542 (H.R.1961), enacted 10/24/1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-542—OCT. 24, 1984 
98 STAT. 2725 
Public Law 98-542 
98th Congress 
An Act 
To require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to prescribe regulations regarding 
the determination of service connection of certain disabilities of veterans who were 
exposed to dioxin in the Republic of Vietnam while performing active military, 
naval, or air service or to radiation from nuclear detonations while performing 
such service, to provide interim benefits for certain disabilities and deaths, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SHORT TITLE 
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Veterans' Dioxin and 
Radiation Exposure Compensation Standards Act". 
FINDINGS 
Oct. 24, 1984 
[H.R. 1961] 
Veterans' Dioxin 
and Radiation 
Exposure 
Compensation 
Standards Act. 
38 u s e 354 note. 
38 u s e 354 note. 
SEC. 2. The Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam during 
the Vietnam era and veterans who participated in atmospheric 
nuclear tests or the American occupation of Hiroshima or 
Nagasaki, Japan, are deeply concerned about possible long-term 
health effects of exposure to herbicides containing dioxin or to 
ionizing radiation. 
(2) There is scientific and medical uncertainty regarding such 
long-term adverse health effects. 
(3) In section 102 of Public Law 97-22, the Congress responded 
to that uncertainty by authorizing priority medical care at 
Veterans' Administration facilities for any disability of a 
veteran who may have been so exposed (even though there is 
insufficient medical evidence linking such disability with such 
exposure) unless the disability is found to have resulted from a 
cause other than the exposure. 
(4) The Congress has further responded to that medical and 
scientific uncertainty by requiring, in section 307 of Public Law 
96-151 and section 601 of Public Law 98-160, the conduct of 
thorough epidemiological studies of the health effects experi-
enced by veterans in connection with exposure both to herbi-
cides containing dioxin and (if not determined to be scientifically 
infeasible) to radiation, and by requiring in Public Law 97-414, 21 use 301 note 
the development of radioepidemiological tables setting forth the 
probabilities of causation between various cancers and exposure 
to radiation. 
(5) There is some evidence that chloracne, porphyria cutanea 
tarda, and soft tissue sarcoma are associated with exposure to 
certain levels of dioxin as found in some herbicides and that 
most types of leukemia, malignancies of the thyroid, female 
breast, lung, bone, liver, and skin, and polycythemia vera are 
associated with exposure to certain levels of ionizing radiation. 
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(6) As of the date of the enactment of this Act, there are sixty-
six federally sponsored research projects being conducted relat-
ing to herbicides containing dioxin, at a cost to the Federal 
Government in excess of $130,000,000 and, as of 1981, federally 
sponsored research projects relating to ionizing radiation were 
costing the Federal Government more than $115,000,000. 
(7) The initial results of one project—an epidemiological 
study, conducted by the United States Air Force School of 
Aerospace Medicine, of the health status of the "Ranch Hand" 
veterans who carried out the loading and aerial spraying of 
herbicides containing dioxin in Vietnam and in the process 
came into direct skin contact with such herbicides in their most 
concentrated liquid form—were released on February 24, 1984, 
and contained the conclusion "that there is insufficient evi-
dence to support a cause and effect relationship between herbi-
cide exposure and adverse health in the Ranch Hand group at 
this time". 
(8) The "film badges" which were originally issued to mem-
bers of the Armed Forces in connection with the atmospheric 
nuclear test program have previously constituted a primary 
source of dose information for veterans (and survivors of veter-
ans) filing claims for Veterans' Administration disability com-
pensation or dependency and indemnity compensation in 
connection with exposure to radiation. 
(9) These film badges often provide an incomplete measure of 
radiation exposure, since they were not capable of recording 
inhaled, ingested, or neutron doses (although the Defense Nu-
clear Agency currently has the capability to reconstruct individ-
ual estimates of such doses), were not issued to most of the 
participants in nuclear tests, often provided questionable read-
ings because they were shielded during the detonation, and 
were worn for only limited periods during and after each 
nuclear detonation. 
(10) Standards governing the reporting of dose estimates in 
connection with radiation-related claims for Veterans' Adminis-
tration disability compensation vary among the 
several 
branches of the Armed Forces, and no uniform minimum stand-
ards exist. 
(11) The Veterans' Administration has not promulgated per-
manent regulations setting forth specific guidelines, standards, 
and criteria for the adjudication of claims for Veterans' Admin-
istration disability compensation based on exposure to herbi-
cides containing dioxin or to ionizing radiation. 
(12) Such claims (especially those involving health effects with 
long latency periods) present adjudicatory issues which are 
significantly different from issues generally presented in claims 
based upon the usual types of injuries incurred in military 
service. 
(13) It has always been the policy of the Veterans' Adminis-
tration and is the policy of the United States, with respect to 
individual claims for service connection of diseases and disabil-
ities, that when, after consideration of all evidence and material 
of record, there is an approximate balance of positive and 
negative evidence regarding the merits of an issue material to 
the determination of a claim, the benefit of the doubt in resolv-
ing each such issue shall be given to the claimant. 
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PURPOSE 
SEC. 3. The purpose of this Act is to ensure that Veterans' 38 use 354 note. 
Administration disability compensation is provided to veterans who 
were exposed during service in the Armed Forces in the Republic of 
Vietnam to a herbicide containing dioxin or to ionizing radiation in 
connection with atmospheric nuclear tests or in connection with the 
American occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan, for all 
disabilities arising after that service that are connected, based on 
sound scientific and medical evidence, to such service (and that 
Veterans' Administration dependency and indemnity compensation 
is provided to survivors of those veterans for all deaths resulting 
from such disabilities). 
REQUIREMENT IN TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE, RELATING TO 
REGULATIONS 
SEC. 4. Section 354(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking out the comma after "disabilities" and insert-
ing in lieu thereof "(1)"; and 
(2) by inserting before the period a comma and "and (2) the 
provisions required by section 5 of the Veterans' Dioxin and 
Radiation Exposure Compensation Standards Act". 
REQUIREMENT FOR AND CONTENT OF REGULATIONS 
SEC. 5. (a) In carrying out the responsibilities of the Administrator 38 USC 354 note. 
of Veterans' Affairs under section 354(a)(2) of title 38, United States 
Code, and in order to promote consistency in claims processing and 
decisions, the Administrator shall prescribe regulations to— 
(1) establish guidelines and (where appropriate) standards and 
criteria for the resolution of claims for benefits under laws 
administered by the Veterans' Administration where the crite-
ria for eligibility for a benefit include a requirement that a 
death or disability be service connected and the claim of service 
connection is based on a veteran's exposure during service— 
(A) in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era to 
a herbicide containing dioxin, or 
(B) in connection with such veteran's participation in 
atmospheric nuclear tests or with the American occupation 
of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan, prior to July 1, 1946, to 
ionizing radiation from the detonation of a nuclear device; 
and 
(2) ensure that, with respect to those claims, the policy of the 
United States described in section 2(13) is carried out. 
(b)(1)(A) The guidelines required to be established in regulations 
prescribed under this section shall include guidelines governing the 
evaluation of the findings of scientific studies relating to the possible 
increased risk of adverse health effects of exposure to herbicides 
containing dioxin or of exposure to ionizing radiation. Those guide-
lines shall require that, in the evaluation of those studies, the 
Administrator shall take into account whether the results are statis-
tically significant, are capable of replication, and withstand peer 
review. 
(B) The evaluations described in subparagraph (A) shall be made 
by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs after receiving the advice 
of the appropriate panel of the Scientific Council of the Veterans' 
Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards (established under 
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Federal 
section 6). Those evaluations shall be published in the notice section 
Register, 
of the Federal Register. 
publication. 
(p) ,pj^g standards and criteria required to be established in regu-
lations prescribed under this section shall include provisions 
governing the use in the adjudication of individual claims of the 
Administrator's evaluations made under subparagraph (B). 
(2XAXi) In prescribing regulations under this section, the Adminis-
trator (after receiving the advice of the Advisory Committee and of 
the appropriate panel of the Scientific Council of the Veterans' 
Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards regarding the dis-
eases described in subparagraph (B)) shall make determinations, 
based on sound medical and scientific evidence, with respect to each 
disease described in subparagraph (B) as to whether service connec-
tion shall, subject to division (ii) of this subparagraph, be granted in 
the adjudication of individual cases. In making determinations re-
garding such diseases, the Administrator shall give due regard to 
the need to maintain the policy of the United States with respect to 
the resolution of contested issues as set forth in section 2(13). The 
Administrator shall set forth in such regulations such determina-
tions, with any specification (relating to exposure or other relevant 
matter) of limitations on the circumstances under which service 
connection shall be granted, and shall implement such determina-
tions in accordance with such regulations. 
(ii) If the Administrator makes a determination, pursuant to this 
subparagraph, that service connection shall be granted in the case of 
a disease described in subparagraph (B), the Administrator shall 
specify in such regulations that, in the adjudication of individual 
cases, service connection shall not be granted where there is suffi-
cient affirmative evidence to the contrary or evidence to establish 
that an intercurrent injury or disease which is a recognized cause of 
the described disease has been suffered between the date of separa-
tion from service and the onset of such disease or that the disability 
is due to the veteran's own willful misconduct. 
(iii) With regard to each disease described in subparagraph (B), the 
Administrator shall include in the regulations prescribed under this 
section provisions specifying the factors to be considered in adjudi-
cating issues relating to whether or not service connection should be 
granted in individual cases and the circumstances governing the 
granting of service connection for such disease. 
(B) The diseases referred to in subparagraph (A) are those speci-
fied in section 2(5) and any other disease with respect to which the 
Administrator finds (after receiving and considering the advice of 
the appropriate panel of the Scientific Council established under 
section 6(dX2)) that there is sound scientific or medical evidence 
indicating— 
(i) a connection to exposure to a herbicide containing dioxin, 
in the case of a veteran who was exposed to that herbicide 
during such veteran's service in the Republic of Vietnam during 
the Vietnam era, or 
(ii) a connection to exposure to ionizing radiation, in the case 
of a veteran who was exposed to ionizing radiation in connection 
with such veteran's participation in an atmospheric nuclear test 
or with the American occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, 
Japan, before July 1, 1946. 
(3) The regulations prescribed under this section shall include— 
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98 STAT. 2729 
(A) specification of the maximum period of time after expo-
sure to such herbicide or ionizing radiation for the development 
of those diseases; and 
(B) a requirement that a claimant filing a claim based upon a 
veteran's exposure to a herbicide containing dioxin or to ioniz-
ing radiation from the detonation of a nuclear device may not 
be required to produce evidence substantiating the veteran's 
exposure during active military, naval, or air service if the 
information in the veteran's service records and other records of 
the Department of Defense is not inconsistent with the claim 
that the veteran was present where and when the claimed 
exposure occurred. 
(c)(1) The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall develop the 
Federal 
regulations required by this section (and any amendment to those 
Register, 
regulations) through a public review and comment process in ac- 
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cordance with the provisions of section 553 of title 5, United States 
Code. That process may include consideration by the Administrator 
of the recommendations of the Veterans' Advisory Committee on 
Environmental Hazards and the Scientific Council thereof (estab-
lished under section 6) with respect to the proposed regulations, and 
that process shall include consideration by the Administrator of the 
recommendations of the Committee and the Council with respect to 
the final regulations and proposed and final amendments to such 
regulations. The period for public review and comment shall be 
completed not later than ninety days after the proposed regulations 
or proposed amendments are published in the Federal Register. 
(2)(A) Not later than one hundred and eighty days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall develop and 
publish in the Federal Register a proposed version of the regulations 
required to be prescribed by this section. 
(B) Not later than three hundred days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall publish in the Fed-
eral Register the final regulations (together with explanations of the 
bases for the guidelines, standards, and criteria contained therein) 
required to be prescribed by this section. 
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS 
SEC. 6. (a) The advisory committee referred to in subsections (b) 
38 USC 354 note. 
and (c) of section 5, to be known as the Veterans' Advisory Commit-
tee on Environmental Hazards (hereinafter in this section referred 
to as the "Committee") shall consist of fifteen members appointed 
by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs after requesting and con-
sidering recommendations from veteran organizations, including— 
(1) eleven individuals (of whom none may be members of the 
Armed Forces on active duty or employees of the Veterans' 
Administration or the Department of Defense and not more 
than three may be employees of other Federal departments or 
agencies), appointed, after requesting and considering the rec-
ommendations of the heads of Federal entities with particular 
expertise in biomedical and environmental science, including— 
(A) three individuals who are recognized medical or scien-
tific authorities in fields pertinent to understanding the 
health effects of exposure to dioxin; 
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(B) three individuals who are recognized medical or scien-
tific authorities in fields pertinent to understanding the 
health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation; and 
(C) five individuals who are recognized medical or scien-
tific authorities in fields, such as epidemiology and other 
scientific disciplines, pertinent to determining and assess-
ing the health effects of exposure to dioxin or ionizing 
radiation in exposed populations; and 
(2) four individuals from the general public, including at least 
one disabled veteran, having a demonstrated interest in and 
experience relating to veterans' concerns regarding exposure to 
dioxin or ionizing radiation. 
(b) The Committee shall include, as ex officio, nonvoting members, 
the Chief Medical Director and the Chief Benefits Director of the 
Veterans' Administration, or their designees. 
(c) The Committee shall submit to the Administrator any recom-
mendations it considers appropriate for administrative or legislative 
action. 
(d)(1) The eleven members of the Committee described in subsec-
tion (a)(1) shall, in addition to serving as members of the Committee, 
constitute a Scientific Council of the Committee (hereinafter in this 
section referred to as the "Council"). 
(2) The Council shall be divided into (A) an eight-member panel 
with responsibility for evaluating scientific studies relating to possi-
ble adverse health effects of exposure to dioxin, and (B) an eight-
member panel with responsibility for evaluating scientific studies 
relating to possible adverse health effects of exposure to ionizing 
radiation. 
Reports. 
(3) The Council shall make findings and evaluations regarding 
pertinent scientific studies and shall submit to the Committee and 
the Administrator directly periodic reports on such findings and 
evaluations. 
(e) The Administrator shall designate one of the members to chair 
the Committee and another member to chair the Council. 
(f) The Administrator shall determine the terms of service and 
pay and allowances of members of the Committee, except that a 
term of service of any member may not exceed three years. The 
Administrator may reappoint any member for additional terms of 
service. 
(g) The Administrator shall provide administrative support serv-
ices and fiscal support for the Committee. 
NUCLEAR RADIATION MATTERS INVOLVING OTHER AGENCIES 
38 use 354 note. 
SEC. 7. (a) In connection with the duties of the Director of the 
Defense Nuclear Agency, as Department of Defense Executive 
Agent for the Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program, relating to 
the preparation of radiation dose estimates with regard to claims for 
Veterans' Administration disability compensation and dependency 
and indemnity compensation under chapters 11 and 13, respectively, 
38 use 301 et 
of title 38, United States Code— 
seq., 401 et seq. 
(1) the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe guidelines (and 
any amendment to those guidelines) through a public review 
and comment process in accordance with the provisions of 
section 553 of title 5, United States Code— 
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(A) specifying the minimum standards governing the 
preparation of radiation dose estimates in connection with 
claims for such compensation, 
(B) making such standards uniformly applicable to the 
several branches of the Armed Forces, and 
(C) requiring that each such estimate furnished to the 
Veterans' Administration and to any veteran or survivor 
include information regarding all material aspects of the 
radiation environment to which the veteran was exposed 
and which form the basis of the claim, including inhaled, 
ingested, and neutron doses; and 
(2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the 
Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall— 
(A) conduct a review of the reliability and accuracy of 
scientific and technical devices and techniques (such as 
"whole body counters") which may be useful in determining 
previous radiation exposure; 
(B) submit to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs and Report. 
the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Repre-
sentatives and the Senate, not later than July 1, 1985, a 
report regarding the results of such review, including infor-
mation concerning the availability of such devices and 
techniques, the categories of exposed individuals as to 
whom use of such devices and techniques may be appropri-
ate, and the reliability and accuracy of dose estimates 
which may be derived from such devices and techniques; 
and 
(C) enter into an interagency agreement with the Admin-
istrator of Veterans' Affairs for the purpose of assisting the 
Administrator in identifying agencies or other entities ca-
pable of furnishing services involving the use of such de-
vices and techniques. 
(b) The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, in resolving material 
differences between a radiation dose estimate, from a credible 
source, submitted by a veteran or survivor and a radiation dose 
estimate prepared and transmitted by the Director of the Defense 
Nuclear Agency, shall provide for the preparation of a radiation 
dose estimate by an independent expert, who shall be selected by the 
Director of the National Institutes of Health and who shall not be 
affiliated with the Defense Nuclear Agency, and the Administrator 
shall provide for the consideration of such independent estimate in 
connection with the adjudication of the claim for Veterans' Admin-
istration compensation. 
AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS 
SEC. 8. (a) Paragraph (3) of section 307(b) of the Veterans' Health 
Programs Extension and Improvement Act of 1979 (38 U.S.C. 219 
note) is amended to read as follows: 
"(3) Immediately after the submission of each report under para-
graph (2), the Administrator, based on the results described in such 
report and the comments and recommendations included therein 
and any other available pertinent information, shall evaluate the 
need for any amendments to regulations, prescribed pursuant to 
section 5 of the Veterans' Dioxin and Radiation Exposure Compen-
sation Standards Act, for the resolution of claims for service connec- 
Ante, p. 2727. 
tion based on the exposure specified in subsection (aXlXA) of such 
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Federal 
Register, 
publication. 
38 u s e 219 note. 
Ante, p. 2727. 
Federal 
Register, 
publication. 
section. To the extent that the Administrator determines that any 
amendments to such regulations are needed, the Administrator, not 
later than 90 days after such submission, shall develop and publish 
in the Federal Register, for public review and comment, proposed 
amendments to such regulations.". 
(b) Paragraph (5) of section 601(a) of the Veterans' Health Care 
Amendments of 1983 (Public Law 98-160; 97 Stat. 1007) is amended 
by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C) and insert-
ing after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph (B): 
"(B) Immediately after the submission of each report under sub-
paragraph (A), the Administrator, based on the results described in 
such report and the comments and recommendations included 
therein and any other available pertinent information, shall evalu-
ate the need for any amendments to regulations, prescribed pursu-
ant to section 5 of the Veterans' Dioxin and Radiation Exposure 
Compensation Standards Act, for the resolution of claims for service 
connection based on the exposure specified in subsection (a)(1)(B) of 
such section. To the extent that the Administrator determines that 
any amendments to such regulations are needed, the Administrator, 
not later than 90 days after such submission, shall develop and 
publish in the Federal Register, for public review and comment, 
proposed amendments to such regulations.". 
INTERIM BENEFITS FOR DISABILITY OR DEATH IN CERTAIN CASES 
38 use 354 note. 
SEC. 9. (a)(1) In the case of a veteran— 
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(A) who served in the active military, naval, or air service in 
the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era; and 
(B) who has a disease described in subsection (b) that became 
manifest within one year after the date of the veteran's most 
recent departure from the Republic of Vietnam during that 
service, 
the Administrator shall (except as provided in subsection (c)) pay a 
monthly disability benefit to the veteran in accordance with this 
section. 
(2) If a veteran described in paragraph (1) dies from the disease, 
the Administrator shall pay a monthly death benefit to the survi-
vors of the veteran in accordance with this section. 
(b) The diseases referred to in subsection (a) are chloracne and 
porphyria cutanea tarda. 
(c) Benefits may not be paid under this section with respect to a 
disease occurring in a veteran— 
(1) where there is affirmative evidence that the disease was 
not incurred by the veteran during service in the Republic of 
Vietnam during the Vietnam era; 
(2) where there is affirmative evidence to establish that an 
intercurrent injury or disease which is a recognized cause of the 
disease was suffered by the veteran between the date of the 
veteran's most recent departure from the Republic of Vietnam 
during active military, naval, or air service and the onset of the 
disease; or 
(3) if the Administrator determines, based on evidence in the 
veteran's service records and other records of the Department of 
Defense, that the veteran was not exposed to dioxin during 
active military, naval, or air service in the Republic of Vietnam 
during the Vietnam era. 
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98 STAT. 2733 
(d)(1) A disability benefit payable to a veteran under this section 
for a disease described in subsection (b) shall be paid at the rate at 
which compensation would be payable under chapter 11 of title 38, 
38 USC 301 et 
United States Code, to that veteran for the disability resulting from ^eq. 
that disease if the disability were determined to be service-
connected. 
(2) A death benefit payable under this section to the survivors of a 
veteran shall be paid to such survivors based upon the eligibility 
requirements (other than the requirement that death be the result 
of a service-connected or compensable disability) and at the rates 
that are applicable to dependency and indemnity compensation 
under chapter 13 of that title. 
38 USC 401 et 
(e) A benefit may not be paid under this section with respect to a ^^i-
disease or the death of a veteran for any month for which compensa-
tion is payable to that veteran for that disease under chapter 11 of 
title 38, United States Code, or for which dependency and indemnity 
compensation is payable for that death under chapter 13 of such 
title. 
(f) A disease establishing eligibility for a disability or death benefit 
under this section shall be treated for purposes of all other laws of 
the United States (other than chapters 11 and 13 of title 38, United 
States Code) as if such disease were service connected. The receipt of 
a disability benefit under this section shall be treated for purposes of 
all other laws of the United States as if such benefit were compensa-
tion under chapter 11 of such title, and the receipt of a death benefit 
under this section shall be treated for purposes of all other laws of 
the United States as if such benefit were dependency and indemnity 
compensation under chapter 13 of title 38, United States Code. 
(g) For the purposes of this section: 
(1; The term "Administrator" means the Administrator of 
Veterans' Affairs. 
(2) The term "Vietnam era" means the period beginning on 
August 5, 1964, and ending on May 7,1975. 
(3) The term "veteran" has the meaning given that term in 
paragraph (2) of section 101 of title 38, United States Code, and 
includes a person who died in the active military, naval, or air 
sen ice. 
(4) The terms "service-connected" and "active military, naval, 
or air service" have the meanings given those terms in para-
graphs (16) and (24), respectively, of section 101 of title 38, 
United States Code. 
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Effective date. 
(hXD This Section takes effect as of October 1, 1984. No benefit 
may be paid under this section for a period before that date. 
(2) No benefit may be paid under this section for a period after 
September 30,1986. 
Approved October 24, 1984. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 1961 (S. 1651): 
HOUSE REPORT No. 98-592 (Comm. on Veterans' Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 130 (1984): 
Jan. 30, considered and passed House. 
May 22, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Oct. 3, House concurred in Senate amendments with amendments. 
Oct. 4, Senate concurred in House amendments. 
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