HR 2149 · in committee · significant
Correcting Guam’s History in the PACT Act
- veterans
What this bill does
- Expands eligibility for veterans to claim service-related diseases from herbicide exposure during service in Guam.
- Affects veterans who served in Guam between August 1958 and July 1980 with specified herbicide-related conditions.
- Allows eligible veterans to receive disability compensation and healthcare benefits without proving causation.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How should the VA balance presumptive eligibility for Guam veterans against the need to verify herbicide exposure actually occurred at specific locations?
- 02
What evidence exists that herbicide exposure in Guam during 1958-1980 caused the specified diseases at rates comparable to Agent Orange exposure elsewhere?
- 03
Which veterans would gain access to new benefits under this bill, and what is the estimated fiscal cost to the VA healthcare and disability system?
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Sponsor · R-GU
James C. Moylan
Citizen cosponsors
0
In Congress
35/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-03-14
Joining the bill

Seth Moulton
D-MA-6 · original

Joseph D. Morelle
D-NY-25 · original

Grace Meng
D-NY-6 · original

Susie Lee
D-NV-3 · original

Judy Chu
D-CA-28 · original

Lois Frankel
D-FL-22 · original

Nick LaLota
R-NY-1 · original

Nicole Malliotakis
R-NY-11 · original

Val T. Hoyle
D-OR-4 · original

Donald G. Davis
D-NC-1 · original

Doug LaMalfa
R-CA-1 · original

Eleanor Holmes Norton
D-DC · original
+ 23 more
Legislative timeline
2025-03-14 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2025-03-14 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-03-14 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
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