[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4886 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4886

     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

                             July 25, 2023

    Mr. Pfluger (for himself, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Dunn of 
Florida, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Bergman, Ms. Van Duyne, 
Mr. Mike Garcia of California, Mr. Allred, and Mr. Valadao) 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.

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

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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