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
38 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.
38 U.S.C. § 241
38 U.S.C. § 1154
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 556 by Sonny Montgomery (D–MS) on January 17, 1991
Committee consideration by House Veterans' Affairs
Passed the House on January 29, 1991 (412-0 Roll call vote 016, via Clerk.House.gov)
Passed the Senate on January 30, 1991 (99-0 Roll call vote 9, via Senate.gov, in lieu of S. 238)
Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on February 6, 1991
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][2]
^Bush, George H.W. (February 6, 1991). "Statement on Signing the Agent Orange Act of 1991 - February 6, 1991". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 114–115.
^Bush, George H.W. (February 6, 1991). "Remarks on Signing the Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1991 and the Agent Orange Act of 1991 - February 6, 1991". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 112–113.
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