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1 H.R. 299, a Bill to Amend Title 38, United States Code, to Clarify Presumptions Relating to the Exposure of Certain Veterans Who Served in the Vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam, and for Other Purposes 1 (November 29, 2018)

handle is hein.congrec/cbovtrns0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Keith Hall, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 November 29, 2018 Honorable Mike Enzi Chairman Committee on the Budget United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Mr. Chairman: On May 15, 2018, the Congressional Budget Office transmitted an estimate of the budgetary effects of H.R. 299, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of Vietnam, and for other purposes, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on May 8, 2018. Among other things, the act would provide disability compensation to more of the veterans who served in the territorial seas of Vietnam during the Vietnam War under the assumption that they had been exposed to Agent Orange, a blend of herbicides used by the Department of Defense to remove dense tropical foliage. CBO estimated that those provisions would increase direct spending by about $900 million over the 2019-2028 period. The bill that was passed by the House amended the earlier version to expand the nautical area in which veterans would be presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange. That change would increase CBO's estimate of the costs of the legislation by about $250 million to account for the additional veterans that would be affected. Since the original estimate was prepared in May, CBO has obtained new information that would affect future estimates of similar legislation. In total, we expect that accounting for this new information would increase the estimate of the legislation's effect on direct spending by at least $1 billion over 10 years.

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