S.Amdt. 3914
What it does: Adds SEC. 737. REVIEW AND REPORT ON TECHNOLOGIES USED TO TREAT CANCER at the end of subtitle C of title VII
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO)What it changes
1 change to S. 2410 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 737. REVIEW AND REPORT ON TECHNOLOGIES USED TO TREAT CANCER at the end of subtitle C of title VII
Adds a sectionIn S. 2410 · Placed on Calendar Senate
(c) Eligible Beneficiaries Defined.--In this section, the term "eligible beneficiaries" means individuals who are eligible for health care and services through the military health care system.
Inserted: SEC. 737. REVIEW AND REPORT ON TECHNOLOGIES USED TO TREAT CANCER.
Inserted: (a) Review.--The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall seek to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council to conduct a review of the following:
Inserted: (1) The range of technologies currently used to treat cancer, including emerging technologies used in the United States or abroad.
Inserted: (2) The strategies and plans of the Department of Defense to treat cancer through the use of emerging technologies, including carbon ion therapy, and how those strategies and plans compare to the strategies and plans of the medical community at large.
Inserted: (3) The feasibility and advisability of the Department entering into agreements with research partners outside the Federal Government, including institutions of higher education, to study technologies used to treat cancer, including emerging technologies.
Inserted: (b) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the National Research Council shall submit to the Secretary of Defense, the congressional defense committees, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives a report on the results of the review conducted under subsection (a) and any recommendations that were identified during such review.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:
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As printed
SA 3914. Mr. UDALL of Colorado submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2410, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2015 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:
SEC. 737. REVIEW AND REPORT ON TECHNOLOGIES USED TO TREAT CANCER.
(a) Review.--The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall seek to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council to conduct a review of the following:
(1) The range of technologies currently used to treat cancer, including emerging technologies used in the United States or abroad.
(2) The strategies and plans of the Department of Defense to treat cancer through the use of emerging technologies, including carbon ion therapy, and how those strategies and plans compare to the strategies and plans of the medical community at large.
(3) The feasibility and advisability of the Department entering into agreements with research partners outside the Federal Government, including institutions of higher education, to study technologies used to treat cancer, including emerging technologies.
(b) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the National Research Council shall submit to the Secretary of Defense, the congressional defense committees, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives a report on the results of the review conducted under subsection (a) and any recommendations that were identified during such review.
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Senate amendment submitted
September 18, 2014