To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report to Congress on programs to notify veterans of potential exposure to certain herbicide agents outside of Vietnam, and for other purposes.

I 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 7476 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report to Congress on programs to notify veterans of potential exposure to certain herbicide agents outside of Vietnam, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JULY 1, 2020 Mr. VELA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit a report to Congress on programs to notify veterans of potential exposure to certain herbicide agents outside of Vietnam, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. REPORT ON OUTREACH BY THE SECRETARY OF 3 VETERANS AFFAIRS REGARDING POTENTIAL 4 EXPOSURE OF VETERANS TO HERBICIDE 5 AGENTS. 6 (a) REPORT REQUIRED.—No later than 180 days 7 after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:44 Jul 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7476.IH H7476 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 7476 IH Veterans Affairs shall submit to Congress a report detail- 1 ing outreach activities regarding the potential exposure of 2 veterans to certain herbicide agents at sites outside of 3 Vietnam. 4 (b) SPANISH LANGUAGE OUTREACH.—The report re- 5 quired by subsection (a) shall include information on 6 whether outreach activities are being conducted in Span- 7 ish. 8 (c) HERBICIDE AGENT DEFINED.—For the purposes 9 of this Act, the term ‘‘herbicide agent’’ means a chemical 10 in an herbicide used or stored by the United States and 11 allied military forces for the purposes of military oper- 12 ations or testing during the period starting on May 1, 13 1945 and ending on June 10, 1977. 14 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:44 Jul 25, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H7476.IH H7476 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS