To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a presumption of service-connection between certain diseases experienced by veterans of active service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era and exposure to certan toxic herbicide agents used in Vietnam; to provide for permanent benefits for veterans of such service who have certain diseases; to improve the reporting requirements relating to the "Ranch Hand Study", and for other purposes.

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Veterans Agent Orange Exposure and Vietnam Service Benefits Act of 1989 - Provides that the disease of chloracne in Vietnam veterans shall be considered to have been service-connected if such disease became manifest to a ten percent or more degree of disability within one year after the last date on which the veteran performed such service in Vietnam. Presumes the following diseases to be...

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Introduced(7/25/89)

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