[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 201 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 201

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.

            Passed the Senate June 3, 2025.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
119th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                 S. 201

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.