Introduced in House

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 530 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 530

     To provide for a study by the National Academies of Sciences,
  Engineering, and Medicine on the prevalence and mortality of cancer
   among individuals who served as active duty aircrew in the Armed
                    Forces, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2025

Mr. Pfluger (for himself, Mr. Panetta, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Ryan, Mr.
Wittman, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Ms. Van
  Duyne, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Webster of Florida, Ms. Lee of Nevada, Mr.
 Simpson, and Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida) introduced the following
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL

     To provide for a study by the National Academies of Sciences,
  Engineering, and Medicine on the prevalence and mortality of cancer
   among individuals who served as active duty aircrew in the Armed
                    Forces, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``ACES Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL ACADEMIES STUDY ON PREVALENCE AND MORTALITY OF CANCER

SEC. 2. NATIONAL ACADEMIES STUDY ON PREVALENCE AND MORTALITY OF CANCER
              AMONG INDIVIDUALS WHO SERVED AS ACTIVE DUTY AIRCREW IN
              THE ARMED FORCES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall enter into
an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine (in this section referred to as the ``National Academies''),
under which the National Academies shall conduct a study on the
prevalence and mortality of cancers among covered individuals.
    (b) Study.--The study required under subsection (a) shall--
            (1) identify exposures associated with military occupations
        of covered individuals, including relating to chemicals,
        compounds, agents, and other phenomena;
            (2) review the literature to determine associations between
        exposures referred to in paragraph (1) and the incidence or
        prevalence of overall cancer morbidity, overall cancer
        mortality, and increased incidence or prevalence of--
                    (A) brain cancer;
                    (B) colon and rectal cancers;
                    (C) kidney cancer;
                    (D) lung cancer;
                    (E) melanoma skin cancer;
                    (F) non-Hodgkin lymphoma;
                    (G) pancreatic cancer;
                    (H) prostate cancer;
                    (I) testiscular cancer;
                    (J) thyroid cancer;
                    (K) urinary bladder cancer; and
                    (L) other cancers as determined appropriate by the
                Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the
                National Academies; and
            (3) determine, to the extent possible, the prevalence of
        and mortality from the cancers specified in paragraph (2) among
        covered individuals by using available sources of data, which
        may include--
                    (A) health care and other administrative databases
                of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department
                of Defense, and the individual Services, respectively;
                    (B) the national death index maintained by the
                National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers
                for Disease Control and Prevention; and
                    (C) the study conducted under section 750 of the
                William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense
                Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-
                283; 134 Stat. 3716).
    (c) Report.--At the conclusion of the study required under
subsection (a), the National Academies shall submit to the Secretary
and to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the House of
Representatives and the Senate a report containing the results of the
study described in subsection (b).
    (d) Covered Individual Defined.--In this section, the term
``covered individual'' means an individual who served on active duty in
the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps as an aircrew member of a
fixed-wing aircraft, including as a pilot, navigator, weapons systems
operator, aircraft system operator, or any other crew member who
regularly flew in a fixed-wing aircraft.
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