All Roll Calls
Yes: 411 • No: 0
HR586119th CongressWALLET
Vietnam Veterans Liver Fluke Cancer Study Act
Sponsored By: Representative LaLota
Passed House
Summary
Study of bile duct cancer in Vietnam-era veterans. This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct an epidemiological study of cholangiocarcinoma in veterans who served in the Vietnam theater and compare incidence to U.S. residents.
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- Veterans: The study will identify incidence rates and the percentage of cases by age, gender, race, ethnicity, and geographic location for Vietnam-era veterans. Results may include recommendations for administrative or legislative actions.
- Researchers and public health agencies: VA must begin the study within 120 days after enactment in consultation with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and use data from the VA Central Cancer Registry and the National Program of Cancer Registries.
- Congress and VA operations: VA must deliver an initial report to Congress no later than one year after the study is completed and provide periodic follow-up reports with continued tracking from the VA cancer registry.
- Pension deadline change: The bill also moves a statutory pension-payment deadline from November 30, 2031 to December 31, 2031.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Extra month to meet VA pension deadline
This bill would move a VA pension rule’s deadline from November 30, 2031 to December 31, 2031. Veterans whose pension is subject to that deadline would get one extra month to meet it. The change would take effect upon enactment.
VA study on bile-duct cancer in Vietnam vets
The VA, with the CDC, would study how often bile-duct cancer occurs in veterans who served in the Vietnam theater. VA would start within 120 days and use VA and national cancer registries. The study would compare rates from the start of the Vietnam era through enactment and show results by age, gender, race, ethnicity, and where people lived at diagnosis. VA would send Congress an initial report within one year after the study ends, then periodic updates. VA would also keep tracking this cancer in the covered veterans.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
LaLota
NY • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
NY • D
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Davis (NC)
NC • D
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
NJ • D
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Ciscomani
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/21/2025
Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
NY • R
Sponsored 1/28/2025
Riley (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 3/31/2025
Rep. Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3]
WA • D
Sponsored 4/7/2025
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 4/7/2025
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
Yes: 411 • No: 0