HR 2829 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Dr. James Allen Disabled Veterans Equity Act

Introduced Jul 23, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Tammy Baldwin D-WI

Fact sheet

Latest action · Aug 22, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJul 23, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Dr. James Allen Disabled Veterans Equity Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay special disability compensation due to a veteran's loss of paired organs when the veteran has suffered impairment of vision compensable to a degree of ten percent or more (currently, blindness) in one eye as a result of a service-connected disability and impairment of vision (currently, blindness) in the other eye as a result of a non-service-connected disability not the result of the veteran's own willful misconduct.

Cosponsors 19

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 23, 2003 to Nov 7, 2003, with 15 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Jul 23, 2003
I-VT	Bernard Sanders	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-CA	Diane E. Watson	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-NY	Joseph Crowley	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-IL	Lane Evans	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-NY	Major R. Owens	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-TX	Martin Frost	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-NC	Mike McIntyre	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-FL	Robert Wexler	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Jul 23, 2003
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes	Original	Jul 23, 2003

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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Aug 22, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
Jul 23, 2003Introduced in House
Jul 23, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

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