Agent Orange Act of 1991

Agent Orange Act of 1991
Great Seal of the United States
Long title An Act to provide for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to obtain independent scientific review of the available scientific evidence regarding associations between diseases and exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial) AOA
Nicknames Agent Orange bill
Enacted by the 102nd United States Congress
Effective February 6, 1991
Citations
Public law 102-4
Statutes at Large 105 Stat. 11
Codification
Titles amended 38 U.S.C.: Veterans' Benefits
U.S.C. sections created 38 U.S.C. § 1116
U.S.C. sections amended
Legislative history

Agent Orange Act of 1991 establishes provisions for the National Academy of Sciences to analyze and summarize scientific evidence regarding presumptive military service exposure to defoliants, dioxins and herbicides, better known as Agent Orange, during the Vietnam War era. The United States Statute endorses an observation of human medical conditions directly related to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, soft-tissue sarcoma, chloracne, and consistent acneform diseases for military personnel who served in the overseas Vietnamese region. The Act of Congress ratifies a medical research compilation of voluntarily contributed blood and tissue samples provided by Vietnam-era veterans serving in Southeast Asia between 1961 and 1975.

The H.R. 556 legislation was passed by the 102nd United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 41st President of the United States George H.W. Bush on February 6, 1991.[1]

See also

References

  1. Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "George Bush: "Statement on Signing the Agent Orange Act of 1991," February 6, 1991". The American Presidency Project. University of California - Santa Barbara.

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