HR 969 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2015

Introduced Feb 13, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Christopher P. Gibson R-NY

Latest action · Mar 6, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

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.

IntroducedFeb 13, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2015

Includes as part of the Republic of Vietnam its territorial seas for purposes of the presumption of service connection for diseases associated with exposure by veterans to certain herbicide agents while in Vietnam.

Cosponsors 335

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 13, 2015 to Sep 19, 2016; 131 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-WA	Adam Smith	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-GA	Austin Scott	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-GA	Barry Loudermilk	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-TX	Blake Farenthold	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NE	Brad Ashford	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-AL	Bradley Byrne	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-KY	Brett Guthrie	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-TX	Brian Babin	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Brian Higgins	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-IL	Cheri Bustos	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NV	Cresent Hardy	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-MI	Dan Benishek	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-FL	Daniel Webster	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-WV	David B. McKinley	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-OH	David P. Joyce	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-FL	David W. Jolly	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-FL	Dennis A. Ross	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-WA	Denny Heck	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CO	Diana DeGette	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-WV	Evan H. Jenkins	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-KY	Harold Rogers	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CT	James A. Himes	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-OH	James B. Renacci	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-MO	Jason Smith	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-SC	Jeff Duncan	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-OK	Jim Bridenstine	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CT	Joe Courtney	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MD	John K. Delaney	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-TX	John R. Carter	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-PA	Joseph R. Pitts	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CA	Juan Vargas	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-PA	Keith J. Rothfus	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-ND	Kevin Cramer	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-KS	Kevin Yoder	Original	Feb 13, 2015
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NJ	Leonard Lance	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-FL	Lois Frankel	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-PA	Lou Barletta	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-TX	Louie Gohmert	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-AL	Mike Rogers	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-AL	Mo Brooks	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-PA	Patrick Meehan	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-FL	Patrick Murphy	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-CA	Paul Cook	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-TX	Pete Olson	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NY	Peter T. King	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-TX	Randy Neugebauer	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-FL	Richard B. Nugent	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MA	Richard E. Neal	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-OH	Robert E. Latta	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-TX	Roger Williams	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Steve Israel	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-OH	Steve Stivers	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-MS	Steven M. Palazzo	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-KY	Thomas Massie	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-OK	Tom Cole	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-PA	Tom Marino	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NY	Tom Reed	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard	Original	Feb 13, 2015
R-NC	Walter B. Jones	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Feb 13, 2015
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Feb 24, 2015
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Feb 24, 2015
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Feb 24, 2015
R-FL	Curt Clawson		Feb 24, 2015
R-WA	David G. Reichert		Feb 24, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Feb 24, 2015
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Feb 24, 2015
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Feb 24, 2015
R-MS	Gregg Harper		Feb 24, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Feb 24, 2015
R-NY	John Katko		Feb 24, 2015
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Feb 24, 2015
R-IN	Luke Messer		Feb 24, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano		Feb 24, 2015
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Feb 24, 2015
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Feb 24, 2015
R-MI	Mike Bishop		Feb 24, 2015
D-WI	Ron Kind		Feb 24, 2015
R-MO	Sam Graves		Feb 24, 2015
R-AR	Bruce Westerman		Feb 27, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Feb 27, 2015
R-GA	Doug Collins		Feb 27, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Feb 27, 2015
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Feb 27, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Feb 27, 2015
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Feb 27, 2015
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Feb 27, 2015
R-NJ	Thomas MacArthur		Feb 27, 2015
R-SD	Kristi L. Noem		Mar 4, 2015
R-TX	Lamar Smith		Mar 4, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		Mar 4, 2015
R-FL	Ted S. Yoho		Mar 4, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Mar 10, 2015
R-FL	Bill Posey		Mar 10, 2015
R-OH	Bob Gibbs		Mar 10, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack		Mar 10, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Mar 10, 2015
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Mar 10, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating		Mar 10, 2015
R-WV	Alexander X. Mooney		Mar 16, 2015
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Mar 16, 2015
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Mar 16, 2015
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Mar 16, 2015
D-GA	David Scott		Mar 16, 2015
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Mar 16, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Mar 16, 2015
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Mar 16, 2015
R-IA	Steve King		Mar 16, 2015
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Mar 16, 2015
D-CA	Ami Bera		Mar 19, 2015
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Mar 19, 2015
R-WA	Dan Newhouse		Mar 19, 2015
R-IA	David Young		Mar 19, 2015
R-AK	Don Young		Mar 19, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Mar 19, 2015
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Mar 19, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Mar 19, 2015
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Mar 19, 2015
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Mar 19, 2015
R-IN	Todd Young		Mar 19, 2015
R-CA	David G. Valadao		Mar 23, 2015
R-MI	Fred Upton		Mar 23, 2015
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Mar 23, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Mar 23, 2015
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Mar 23, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Mar 23, 2015
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Mar 25, 2015
R-NH	Frank C. Guinta		Mar 25, 2015
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Mar 25, 2015
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Mar 25, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Mar 25, 2015
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Apr 13, 2015
R-TN	David P. Roe		Apr 13, 2015
R-VA	E. Scott Rigell		Apr 13, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Apr 13, 2015
R-AR	J. French Hill		Apr 13, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr		Apr 13, 2015
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney		Apr 13, 2015
R-VA	Barbara Comstock		Apr 23, 2015
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		Apr 23, 2015
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Apr 23, 2015
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Apr 23, 2015
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Apr 23, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		May 5, 2015
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		May 5, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu		May 5, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson		May 5, 2015
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford		May 19, 2015
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		May 19, 2015
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		May 26, 2015
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		May 26, 2015
R-MO	Vicky Hartzler		May 26, 2015
R-GA	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter		Jun 2, 2015
R-IL	Randy Hultgren		Jun 2, 2015
R-AZ	Martha McSally		Jun 4, 2015
D-IN	André Carson		Jun 9, 2015
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Jun 15, 2015
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Jun 15, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 23, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jun 24, 2015
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Jun 24, 2015
R-KY	Andy Barr		Jul 7, 2015
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Jul 7, 2015
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jul 8, 2015
D-HI	Mark Takai		Jul 9, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Jul 9, 2015
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Jul 14, 2015
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Jul 14, 2015
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jul 15, 2015
R-CA	Jeff Denham		Jul 15, 2015
R-GA	Lynn A. Westmoreland		Jul 15, 2015
R-CA	Devin Nunes		Jul 16, 2015
R-OK	Markwayne Mullin		Jul 16, 2015
R-CA	Mimi Walters		Jul 16, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jul 16, 2015
R-IL	Rodney Davis		Jul 16, 2015
R-CA	Stephen Knight		Jul 16, 2015
R-UT	Chris Stewart		Jul 21, 2015
D-FL	Gwen Graham		Jul 21, 2015
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Jul 21, 2015
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Jul 21, 2015
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Jul 21, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jul 21, 2015
R-TX	Ted Poe		Jul 21, 2015
D-MI	Debbie Dingell		Jul 22, 2015
D-DE	John C. Carney, Jr.		Jul 22, 2015
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Jul 22, 2015
R-MI	Candice S. Miller		Jul 28, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Jul 28, 2015
R-TX	Kay Granger		Jul 28, 2015
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Jul 28, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Jul 29, 2015
R-IL	Mike Bost		Jul 29, 2015
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Sep 10, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 10, 2015
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Sep 10, 2015
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Sep 10, 2015
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Sep 10, 2015
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Sep 18, 2015
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Sep 18, 2015
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Sep 18, 2015
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		Sep 18, 2015
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Sep 24, 2015
D-CA	Karen Bass		Sep 24, 2015
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Sep 24, 2015
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Sep 30, 2015
R-CA	Doug LaMalfa		Sep 30, 2015
R-VA	Dave Brat		Oct 1, 2015
R-OH	Bill Johnson		Oct 6, 2015
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Oct 6, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Oct 8, 2015
R-LA	Garret Graves		Oct 8, 2015
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Oct 8, 2015
D-CA	John Garamendi		Oct 9, 2015
R-FL	Gus M. Bilirakis		Nov 2, 2015
R-VA	Robert Hurt		Nov 2, 2015
R-SC	Tom Rice		Nov 4, 2015
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Nov 5, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson		Nov 16, 2015
D-TX	Gene Green		Nov 19, 2015
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Dec 15, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus		Dec 15, 2015
D-TX	Al Green		Dec 18, 2015
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Dec 18, 2015
R-PA	Scott Perry		Dec 18, 2015
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Jan 7, 2016
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Feb 9, 2016
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Feb 9, 2016
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Feb 11, 2016
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Feb 12, 2016
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Feb 24, 2016
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Feb 24, 2016
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		Feb 25, 2016
R-OR	Greg Walden		Mar 1, 2016
R-NC	David Rouzer		Mar 16, 2016
D-CA	Lois Capps		Mar 16, 2016
R-IA	Rod Blum		Mar 17, 2016
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Mar 23, 2016
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Apr 11, 2016
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Apr 11, 2016
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Apr 14, 2016
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Apr 18, 2016
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Apr 18, 2016
R-IL	Darin LaHood		Apr 20, 2016
R-FL	John L. Mica		Apr 20, 2016
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Apr 20, 2016
R-MI	Bill Huizenga		Apr 27, 2016
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Apr 27, 2016
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen		May 19, 2016
R-OH	Jim Jordan		May 23, 2016
R-NJ	Scott Garrett		May 24, 2016
R-AL	Martha Roby		May 27, 2016
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Jun 3, 2016
D-CA	Jim Costa		Jun 3, 2016
R-NC	Richard Hudson		Jun 3, 2016
R-CA	Dana Rohrabacher		Jun 8, 2016
R-AS	Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen		Jun 16, 2016
R-FL	Ander Crenshaw		Jun 21, 2016
R-UT	Mia B. Love		Jun 22, 2016
R-FL	Ron DeSantis		Jun 24, 2016
R-TX	Randy K. Weber, Sr.		Jul 11, 2016
R-TN	Diane Black		Jul 14, 2016
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Sep 12, 2016
R-CA	Darrell Issa		Sep 19, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Veterans' Affairs Committee	Referred Feb 13, 2015
	Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee	Referred Mar 6, 2015

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 6, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Feb 13, 2015Introduced in House
Feb 13, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 18

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 25, February 13, 2015, page H1070.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 114-182	HEARING ON PENDING BENEFITS LEGISLATION212 pages	Veterans' Affairs Committee	May 13, 2015

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 681	Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2015	Identical bill	May 13, 2015

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: 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.
Short Titles as Introduced: Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2015

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 13, 2015Introduced in House

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