Agent Orange Act of 1991

Agent Orange Act of 1991

Long title	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 Gillespie V. 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]

See also

• Herbicidal warfare
• Operation Ranch Hand
• Project AGILE
• Rainbow Herbicides

References

External links

• "Veterans: Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam" (PDF). U.S. GAO ~ CED-78-158. U.S. Government Accountability Office. August 16, 1978. 
• "Veterans: Agent Orange" (PDF). U.S. GAO ~ 111614. U.S. Government Accountability Office. February 21, 1980. 
• "Agent Orange: Persisting Problems With Communication of Ranch Hand Study Data and Results" (PDF). U.S. GAO ~ T-NSIAD-00-117. U.S. Government Accountability Office. March 15, 2000. 
• Haberman, Clyde (May 11, 2014). "Agent Orange’s Long Legacy, for Vietnam and Veterans". New York Times.