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[S. 201 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.201

                     One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty five


                                 An Act


 
     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 of 2025''.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL ACADEMIES STUDY ON PREVALENCE AND MORTALITY OF CANCER 
AMONG INDIVIDUALS WHO SERVED AS ACTIVE DUTY AIRCREW IN THE ARMED 
FORCES.
    (a) Agreement.--
        (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
    enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall seek 
    to 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.
        (2) Deadline.--
            (A) Date.--The Secretary shall finalize the agreement under 
        paragraph (1) by not later than 60 days after the date on which 
        the Secretary enters negotiations with the National Academies 
        with respect to such agreement.
            (B) Report; briefings.--If the Secretary fails to satisfy 
        the requirement under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall--
                (i) submit to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the 
            Senate and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House 
            of Representatives a report that includes--

                    (I) an explanation of the reasons the Secretary 
                failed to satisfy such requirement; and
                    (II) an estimate of the date on which the Secretary 
                will finalize the agreement under paragraph (1); and

                (ii) not less frequently than once every 60 days after 
            the date on which the Secretary failed to satisfy such 
            requirement, provide to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
            of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the 
            House of Representatives a briefing on the progress of the 
            Secretary toward finalizing such agreement.
    (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) testicular 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, 
the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on 
Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives 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.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.