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.166012.1
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 14
48
TH LEGISLATURE
- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -
FIRST SESSION
, 2007
INTRODUCED BY
Leonard Lee Rawson
A JOINT MEMORIAL
URGING CONGRESS TO FULLY FUND MEDICAL CARE AND AID AND
ATTENDANT CARE SERVICES FOR HONEY SUE NEWBY AND THE OTHER LEVEL
THREE SPINA BIFIDA CHILDREN OF PARENTS WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM
AND WHO ARE TOTALLY DISABLED.
WHEREAS, the federal department of veterans affairs
acknowledges that one thousand two hundred children of Vietnam
war veterans have some degree of disability resulting from
their birth parents' exposure to agent orange during military
service in the Vietnam war; and
WHEREAS, approximately two hundred of these children of
war veterans are designated as level three spina bifida
children, who are considered to be totally disabled; and
WHEREAS, these children, designated as totally disabled as
a result of their birth parents' exposure to agent orange