[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5020 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5020

 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an 
  agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
    Medicine or the National Cancer Institute to conduct a study on 
            radiation exposure relating to prostate cancer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2019

 Mr. Panetta introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an 
  agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
    Medicine or the National Cancer Institute to conduct a study on 
            radiation exposure relating to prostate cancer.

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

SECTION 1. STUDY ON RADIATION EXPOSURE RELATING TO PROSTATE CANCER.

    (a) Study.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall seek to enter 
into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, 
and Medicine or the National Cancer Institute to conduct a study to 
determine whether prostate cancer should be added to the list of 
diseases specified in section 1112(c) of title 38, United States Code, 
and considered to have been incurred in or aggravated during the active 
military, naval, or air service of radiation-exposed veterans.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date on which the 
Secretary receives the study conducted pursuant to subsection (a), the 
Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate a report on such study.
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