Oregon HJM 2: Urging Congress to enact law to provide for treatment of veterans who participated in cleanup of Enewetak Atoll.

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81st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2021 Regular Session
House Joint Memorial 2
Sponsored by Representatives POST, EVANS (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.
Urges Congress to enact law to provide for treatment of veterans who participated in cleanup
of Enewetak Atoll as radiation-exposed veterans for certain purposes.
JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled:
We, your memorialists, the Eighty-first Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, in legisla-
tive session assembled, respectfully represent as follows:
Whereas the testing of nuclear weapons by the United States resulted in severe contamination
of certain geographical sites in the Marshall Islands; and
Whereas thousands of individuals serving in the United States military between 1977 and 1980
participated in cleanup and decontamination efforts at such sites; and
Whereas these individuals, in the course of their military service, lived, breathed, ate, worked,
slept and swam in decades of accumulated radioactive fallout; and
Whereas numerous individuals in this cohort have since developed distinct cancers and disease
processes attributable to exposure to radioactive materials; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
That we, the members of the Eighty-first Legislative Assembly, urge the Congress of the United
States of America to enact law, such as the Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act
(H.R. 1377, 116th Cong.), to provide for the treatment of veterans who participated in the cleanup
of Enewetak Atoll as radiation-exposed veterans for purposes of the presumption of service-
connection of certain disabilities by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of the United States, to
the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to each member
of the Oregon Congressional Delegation.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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