Fighting for the Overlooked Recognition of Groups Operating in Toxic Test Environments in Nevada (FORGOTTEN) Veterans Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Jacky Rosen
Introduced
Summary
Expanded exposure records and exposure presumptions would document more toxic and radiation exposures for service members, VA staff, and veterans and create a focused pathway for those tied to the Nevada Test and Training Range.
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- Service members, veterans, and health staff: Would require the Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record to capture all toxic exposures, monitoring data, and related medical encounters and make that data available to DoD and VA clinicians, researchers, and benefits specialists.
- VA civilian employees and those at DOE-covered sites: Would create a presumption of exposure for Armed Forces members and VA civilian employees stationed or employed at facilities on the Department of Energy list under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.
- Nevada Test and Training Range personnel: Would direct the Secretary of Defense to classify the NTTR as a location where contamination occurred and require the Air Force to identify and document all current and former members stationed there since January 27, 1951.
- VA benefit rules: Would add NTTR service to the list of radiation-risk activities and allow lipomas and tumor-related conditions to be service-connected for covered veterans.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More VA help for NTTR veterans
If enacted, this would expand VA exposure rules tied to the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). It would treat service at or onsite work for a covered NTTR location on or after January 27, 1951 as a presumed exposure. It would also add lipomas and tumor-related conditions to the list of conditions presumed to be service-connected for those covered veterans, and require the Air Force to find and document people who served at NTTR since January 27, 1951 without forcing them to prove stationing.
Expanded military toxic exposure records
This bill would require the Defense Department to expand the Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record (ILER) to track all toxic exposures, including those inside the United States. The ILER would include occupational and environmental hazard data, monitoring results, and medical encounter information. DoD and VA clinicians, researchers, and VA benefits staff would be able to access these records, and service files would note if a member served at a location with potential toxic exposure while protecting classified details.
Presumed exposure for DOE facility workers
If passed, this would create a presumption of toxic exposure for Armed Forces members and DoD civilian employees who served or worked at any facility on the most recent Department of Energy EEOICPA covered-facilities list. The bill would rely on the DOE-published list in the Federal Register to identify covered facilities. This presumption could lower the proof needed to get exposure-related medical evaluations or VA benefits for those people.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Cosponsors
Catherine Cortez Masto
NV • D
Sponsored 7/9/2025
Mike Rounds
SD • R
Sponsored 3/5/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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