# 119-hr-10541: COMBAT Care Act

119-hr-10541, COMBAT Care Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6] (D-CO); status introduced (as of 2026-10-07).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-10541
- Congress: 119
- Title: COMBAT Care Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-09-24
- Sponsor: Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6] (D-CO)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-07

## Summary

**This bill would create international partnerships to share lessons and build capacity aimed at improving military trauma care.** It would authorize the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to establish joint education and training programs, exchanges, conferences, and research with foreign military medical services to share combat casualty care lessons and clinical best practices. - U.S. military medical personnel would participate in joint conferences, symposia, and professional exchanges and coordinate trauma care doctrine, data collection, and performance improvement through the Joint Trauma System of the Defense Health Agency. - Foreign military medical services would receive training on battlefield trauma care, combat wound infection, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide prevention tied to trauma care, and care for non-combat injuries and diseases, plus capacity-building to modernize trauma systems. - The programs would support joint research on the health effects of new and emerging weapons and share structured knowledge on health policy, administration, medical logistics, and medical supplies and equipment. *The bill would allow the Secretary of Defense to use existing statutory authorities, including chapter 16 of title 10, to carry out these programs.*

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Crank, Jeff [R-CO-5] (R-CO), 2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- New trauma training for military medics: benefit, low. This bill would let the Secretary of Defense, with the Secretary of State, create joint programs on military trauma care. Those programs would work with one or more foreign militaries. They would share lessons from combat casualty care, run conferences and professional exchanges, and sponsor joint…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-10541 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10541)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10541 (as of 2026-10-07).