HR 530
ACES Act
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Bill overview
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to partner with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a comprehensive study on cancer rates and mortality among veterans who served as aircrew in fixed-wing aircraft. The study will investigate potential exposures, review existing research, and analyze data from various sources to determine the prevalence and causes of specific cancers within this population.
Key provisions
- The Department of Veterans Affairs will enter an agreement with the National Academies.
- The National Academies will study cancer prevalence and mortality among active duty aircrew.
- The study will identify exposures linked to military service.
- The study will review literature on cancer associations.
- The study will focus on specific cancers including brain, colon, kidney, lung, melanoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, pancreatic, prostate, testicular, and thyroid cancers.
- The study will utilize data from VA, DoD, and individual military services.
- The National Academies will submit a report to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Congress.
Who is affected
- Veterans
- Aircrew members
- Fixed-wing aircraft pilots and crew
Notable changes
- This bill establishes a dedicated study to investigate cancer risks for a specific group of veterans.
- It leverages the expertise of the National Academies to conduct a thorough analysis.
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Aumua Amata Coleman [R-AS-At Large] Radewagen
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 530
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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.
This Act may be cited as the ACES Act
.
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.
The study required under subsection (a) shall—
identify exposures associated with military occupations of covered individuals, including relating to chemicals, compounds, agents, and other phenomena;
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—
brain cancer;
colon and rectal cancers;
kidney cancer;
lung cancer;
melanoma skin cancer;
non-Hodgkin lymphoma;
pancreatic cancer;
prostate cancer;
testiscular cancer;
thyroid cancer;
urinary bladder cancer; and
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—
health care and other administrative databases of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and the individual Services, respectively;
the national death index maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
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).
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).
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.