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2023-01-11T13:50:09Z
Senate
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2021-05-19
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Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Senate
Standing
  - Referred to
2021-05-19T20:09:02Z

- HAVANA Act of 2021
117
1828
S
2021-10-08
Became Public Law No: 117-46.
  - Related bill
CRS

- HAVANA Act of 2021
117
3356
HR
2021-05-19
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  - Related bill
CRS
- 2021-05-19
  - ssga00
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2784)
IntroReferral
- 2021-05-19
Introduced in Senate
IntroReferral
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Warner
D
VA
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2021-05-19
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R
FL
2021-05-19
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NH
2021-05-19
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TX
2021-05-19
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CO
2021-05-19
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Blunt
R
MO
2021-05-19
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NY
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2021-05-19
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R
NC
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2021-05-19
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2021-05-19
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2021-05-19
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2021-05-19
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2021-05-19
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Government Operations and Politics
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Congressional oversight
- Department of State
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
- Neurological disorders
- Worker safety and health
Government Operations and Politics
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2021-05-19
Introduced in Senate
2021-10-25T18:15:29Z
Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 2021 or the HAVANA Act of 2021
This bill specifically authorizes the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and other agencies to provide payments to agency personnel who incur brain injuries from hostilities while on assignment.
Specifically, the bill allows agency personnel and their families to receive payments for brain injuries that are incurred (1) during a period of assignment to a foreign duty station; (2) in connection with war, insurgency, hostile acts, terrorist activity, or other agency-designated incidents; and (3) not as the result of willful misconduct.
The bill's authority applies to injuries incurred before, on, or after the date of the bill's enactment. Agencies must submit classified reports on the bill's implementation, including the number of payments made and the amount of each payment.
Since 2016, some intelligence, diplomatic, and other governmental personnel have reported experiencing unusual cognitive and neurological impairments while on assignment (particularly abroad), the source of which is currently under investigation. Symptoms were first reported by personnel stationed in Cuba and have since been collectively referred to as Havana Syndrome.

HAVANA Act of 2021
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HAVANA Act of 2021
- Official Title as Introduced

A bill to amend the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 to authorize the provision of payment to personnel of the Central Intelligence Agency who incur qualifying injuries to the brain, to authorize the provision of payment to personnel of the Department of State who incur similar injuries, and for other purposes.
Introduced in Senate
IS
- Short Title(s) as Introduced

HAVANA Act of 2021
Introduced in Senate
IS
- Short Title(s) as Introduced

Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 2021
Introduced in Senate
IS
- Introduced in Senate
2021-05-19T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s1714is/xml/BILLS-117s1714is.xml
2021-05-19
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2784)
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