[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5768]
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  SA 6248. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mrs. Gillibrand) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle B of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 730. STUDY ON COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENINGS FOR MEMBERS 
                   OF THE ARMED FORCES EXPOSED TO OPEN BURN PITS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a 
     study on the feasibility and advisability of providing 
     colorectal cancer screenings to covered members of the Armed 
     Forces.
       (b) Conduct of Study.--
       (1) Selection.--In conducting the study under subsection 
     (a), the Secretary shall--
       (A) select a group of covered members of the Armed Forces 
     and offer those members colorectal cancer screenings, 
     including colonoscopies, fecal occult blood tests, cologuard, 
     and fecal immunochemical tests; and
       (B) select a control sample of covered members of the Armed 
     Forces to be provided screenings under the laws administered 
     by the Secretary other than under this section.
       (2) Participation.--The Secretary shall permit covered 
     members of the Armed Forces to elect to participate in the 
     study under subsection (a) and shall cap the number of 
     participants once the Secretary determines there is an 
     appropriate sample size for purposes of the study.
       (c) Report.--Not later than five years after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives a report on the study conducted under 
     subsection (a).
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Covered member of the armed forces.--The term ``covered 
     member of the Armed Forces'' means a member of the Armed 
     Forces under the age of 45 who was exposed to an open burn 
     pit not later than the date that is five years before the 
     date of the enactment of this Act.
       (2) Open burn pit.--The term ``open burn pit'' has the 
     meaning given that term in section 201(c) of the Dignified 
     Burial and Other Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2012 
     (Public Law 112-260; 38 U.S.C. 527 note).
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