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 115 STAT. 988 PUBLIC LAW 107-103—DEC. 27, 2001 (b) PRESUMPTION THAT DIABETES MELLITUS (TYPE 2) Is SERVICE-CONNECTED.— Subsection (a)(2) of section 1116 is further amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: " (H) Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2).". (c) PRESUMPTION OF EXPOSURE TO HERBICIDE AGENTS IN VIETNAM DURING VIETNAM ERA. — (1) Section 1116 is further amended— (A) by transferring paragraph (3) of subsection (a) to the end of the section and redesignating such paragraph, as so transferred, as subsection (f); (B) by redesignating paragraph (4) of subsection (a) as paragraph (3); and (C) in subsection (f), as transferred and redesignated by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph— (i) by striking "For the purposes of this subsection, a veteran" and inserting "For purposes of establishing service connection for a disability or death resulting from exposure to a herbicide agent, including a presumption of service-connection under this section, a veteran"; and (ii) by striking "and has a disease referred to in paragraph (1)(B) of this subsection". (2)(A) The heading of that section is amended to read as follows: "§ 1116. Presumptions of service connection for diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents; presumption of exposure for veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam". (B) The item relating to that section in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 11 is amended to read as follows: "1116. Presumptions of service connection for diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents; presumption of exposure for veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam.". (d) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO PRESUME SERVICE-CONNEC- TION FOR ADDITIONAL DISEASES.—(1) Subsection (e) of such section is amended by striking "10 years" and all that follows through "Agent Orange Act of 1991" and inserting "on September 30, 2015". (2) Section 3(i) of the Agent Orange Act of 1991 (38 U.S.C. 1116 note) is amended by striking "10 years" and all that follows and inserting "on October 1, 2014.". SEC. 202. PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION FOR PERSIAN GULF WAR VET- ERANS WITH CERTAIN CHRONIC DISABILITIES. (a) ILLNESSES THAT CANNOT BE CLEARLY DEFINED.— (1) Subsection (a) of section 1117 is amended to read as follows: "(a)(1) The Secretary may pay compensation under this subchapter to a Persian Gulf veteran with a qualifying chronic disability that became manifest— "(A) during service on active duty in the Armed Forces in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War; or "(B) to a degree of 10 percent or more during the presumptive period prescribed under subsection (b). "(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term 'qualifying chronic disability' means a chronic disability resulting from any of the following (or any combination of any of the following): "(A) An undiagnosed illness.

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