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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 530
5	5	To provide for a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,
6	6	and Medicine on the prevalence and mortality of cancer among individ-
7	7	uals who served as active duty aircrew in the Armed Forces, and for
8	8	other purposes.
9	9	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10	10	JANUARY16, 2025
11	11	Mr. P
12	12	FLUGER(for himself, Mr. PANETTA, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. RYAN,
13	13	Mr. W
14	14	ITTMAN, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. ELLZEY, Mr. DAVISof North Caro-
15	15	lina, Ms. V
16	16	ANDUYNE, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. WEBSTERof Florida, Ms. LEE
17	17	of Nevada, Mr. S
18	18	IMPSON, and Mr. SCOTTFRANKLINof Florida) intro-
19	19	duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Vet-
20	20	erans’ Affairs
21	21	A BILL
22	22	To provide for a study by the National Academies of
23	23	Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the prevalence
24	24	and mortality of cancer among individuals who served
25	25	as active duty aircrew in the Armed Forces, and for
26	26	other purposes.
27	27	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
28	28	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
29	29	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
30	30	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘ACES Act’’. 4
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34	34	SEC. 2. NATIONAL ACADEMIES STUDY ON PREVALENCE 1
35	35	AND MORTALITY OF CANCER AMONG INDI-2
36	36	VIDUALS WHO SERVED AS ACTIVE DUTY AIR-3
37	37	CREW IN THE ARMED FORCES. 4
38	38	(a) I
39	39	NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 5
40	40	shall enter into an agreement with the National Academies 6
41	41	of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (in this section re-7
42	42	ferred to as the ‘‘National Academies’’), under which the 8
43	43	National Academies shall conduct a study on the preva-9
44	44	lence and mortality of cancers among covered individuals. 10
45	45	(b) S
46	46	TUDY.—The study required under subsection (a) 11
47	47	shall— 12
48	48	(1) identify exposures associated with military 13
49	49	occupations of covered individuals, including relating 14
50	50	to chemicals, compounds, agents, and other phe-15
51	51	nomena; 16
52	52	(2) review the literature to determine associa-17
53	53	tions between exposures referred to in paragraph (1) 18
54	54	and the incidence or prevalence of overall cancer 19
55	55	morbidity, overall cancer mortality, and increased in-20
56	56	cidence or prevalence of— 21
57	57	(A) brain cancer; 22
58	58	(B) colon and rectal cancers; 23
59	59	(C) kidney cancer; 24
60	60	(D) lung cancer; 25
61	61	(E) melanoma skin cancer; 26
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64	64	•HR 530 IH
65	65	(F) non-Hodgkin lymphoma; 1
66	66	(G) pancreatic cancer; 2
67	67	(H) prostate cancer; 3
68	68	(I) testiscular cancer; 4
69	69	(J) thyroid cancer; 5
70	70	(K) urinary bladder cancer; and 6
71	71	(L) other cancers as determined appro-7
72	72	priate by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in 8
73	73	consultation with the National Academies; and 9
74	74	(3) determine, to the extent possible, the preva-10
75	75	lence of and mortality from the cancers specified in 11
76	76	paragraph (2) among covered individuals by using 12
77	77	available sources of data, which may include— 13
78	78	(A) health care and other administrative 14
79	79	databases of the Department of Veterans Af-15
80	80	fairs, the Department of Defense, and the indi-16
81	81	vidual Services, respectively; 17
82	82	(B) the national death index maintained by 18
83	83	the National Center for Health Statistics of the 19
84	84	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 20
85	85	and 21
86	86	(C) the study conducted under section 750 22
87	87	of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 23
88	88	Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 24
89	89	(Public Law 116–283; 134 Stat. 3716). 25
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93	93	(c) REPORT.—At the conclusion of the study required 1
94	94	under subsection (a), the National Academies shall submit 2
95	95	to the Secretary and to the Committees on Veterans’ Af-3
96	96	fairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate a 4
97	97	report containing the results of the study described in sub-5
98	98	section (b). 6
99	99	(d) C
100	100	OVEREDINDIVIDUALDEFINED.—In this sec-7
101	101	tion, the term ‘‘covered individual’’ means an individual 8
102	102	who served on active duty in the Army, Navy, Air Force, 9
103	103	or Marine Corps as an aircrew member of a fixed-wing 10
104	104	aircraft, including as a pilot, navigator, weapons systems 11
105	105	operator, aircraft system operator, or any other crew 12
106	106	member who regularly flew in a fixed-wing aircraft. 13
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