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[CITE: 10USC1074e]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 55--MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE
 
Sec. 1074e. Medical care: certain Reserves who served in 
        Southwest Asia during the Persian Gulf Conflict
        
    (a) Entitlement to Medical Care.--A member of the armed forces 
described in subsection (b) is entitled to medical care for a qualifying 
Persian Gulf symptom or illness to the same extent and under the same 
conditions (other than the requirement that the member be on active 
duty) as a member of a uniformed service who is entitled to such care 
under section 1074(a) of this title.
    (b) Covered Members.--Subsection (a) applies to a member of a 
reserve component who--
        (1) is a Persian Gulf veteran;
        (2) has a qualifying Persian Gulf symptom or illness; and
        (3) is not otherwise entitled to medical care for such symptom 
    or illness under this chapter and is not otherwise eligible for 
    hospital care and medical services for such symptom or illness under 
    section 1710 of title 38.

    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
        (1) The term ``Persian Gulf veteran'' means a member of the 
    armed forces who served on active duty in the Southwest Asia theater 
    of operations during the Persian Gulf Conflict.
        (2) The term ``qualifying Persian Gulf symptom or illness'' 
    means, with respect to a member described in subsection (b), a 
    symptom or illness--
            (A) that the member registered before September 1, 1997, in 
        the Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program of the Department 
        of Defense and that is presumed under section 721(d) of the 
        National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (10 
        U.S.C. 1074 note) to be a result of service in the Southwest 
        Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf Conflict; or
            (B) that the member registered before September 1, 1997, in 
        the Persian Gulf War Veterans Health Registry maintained by the 
        Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to section 702 of the 
        Persian Gulf War Veterans' Health Status Act (38 U.S.C. 527 
        note).

(Added Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title VII, Sec. 764(a), Nov. 18, 1997, 
111 Stat. 1825.)

                       References in Text

    Section 721(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 1995, referred to in subsec. (c)(2)(A), is section 721(d) of Pub. 
L. 103-337, which is set out as a note under section 1074 of this title.
    Section 702 of the Persian Gulf War Veterans' Health Status Act, 
referred to in subsec. (c)(2)(B), is section 702 of Pub. L. 102-585, 
which is set out as a note under section 527 of Title 38, Veterans' 
Benefits.
